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Protesting truckers got up in Khimki camp
Participants in the protest of truckers against road gathering from heavy vehicles decided to stay at least a week at the Mega shopping center in Khimki, Moscow Region. This was reported by journalist Arseny Vesnin.
“Truckers organize a long protest in Khimki. For several weeks, a minimum. They defeat the camp,” Vesnin wrote late on Friday late in the evening. “They ask you to bring boiling water and Teraflu” or “Coldrex” (preparations for influenza and colds. - Ed.) ”.
There are about 20 trucks and about the same amount of cars in the parking lot. Locals bring food and hot tea to drivers. Truckers believe that their camp in Khimki is more effective than road flooring. "Here you can come to us, talk, but how on the Moscow Art Theater?" - said one of them to the journalist of RBC. According to drivers, they have a connection with several groups of truckers who are near Moscow.
Meanwhile, the police do not allow new trucks to park. Near the truckers there are constantly several police cars. In the evening, the heavy truck was examined by a dog handle with a dog. He did not find anything illegal.
Truckers' shares are held in other regions. In Novosibirsk, about 80 drivers gathered on Kalinin Square. They accepted an appeal to the country's leadership demanding to cancel the system of charge from the Plato heavy trucks. Participants in the action asked the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokta to support their demand. At the same time, another picket organized by the local branch of the Communist Party was held on Lenin Square. The Communists today intend to hold promotions in support of truckers in a number of cities, including in Moscow.
Meanwhile, Rosavtodor can present financial sanctions to the Plato operator due to failures in the system. “The first days of work was difficult. We did not hide it. We recognize it. Now the check is being checked, how the concessionaire was in force in the given conditions. For each violation - the site does not work, the waiting time for the call center, not access and so on - for all financial sanctions,” said the head of the department Roman Starovoit. At the same time, one of the reasons for the failures of the system, he called the hacker attack.
On Friday evening, the situation was commented by the press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov. He stated that the Ministry of Transport should deal with the problem. "We still do not believe that this is the agenda of the presidential administration, this is precisely the agenda of the relevant department," Peskov said. He noted that "certain measures are taken", in particular, in the State Duma considered the issue of reducing fines. "I would honestly, first of all, drew attention to today's consideration of the issue in the Duma of reducing fines, about those measures that were accepted," Peskov said.
On Friday, the State Duma adopted in the second and third, final, reading the law on reducing fines for owners of heavy vehicles for the absence of Plato system accounting for 5 thousand rubles for the first violation and up to 10 thousand rubles for subsequent ones.
It was assumed that the fines for the lack of devices for individual entrepreneurs will be set at the level of 40 thousand rubles for the first violation and 50 thousand rubles for a repeated violation. For legal entities, fines were set at 450 thousand rubles and 1 million rubles, respectively. The drivers themselves were supposed to be fine for 5 thousand rubles.
The collection from trucks with weighing more than 12 tons in the account of damages when driving on federal roads was introduced from November 15. To charge payments, the Plato system was developed. Its operator was appointed LLC RT-Invest Transport Systems. The operator will receive 10.6 billion rubles from the state annually for the maintenance of the system. The co -owner of the company is Igor Rotenberg, the son of billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin. Owners of heavy trucks were obliged to equip cars with metering devices.
The introduction of the fee and the Platon system caused protests throughout the country. This week, despite the opposition of the police, the participants of the planned "campaign against Moscow" were able to get to the capital. On Wednesday evening, a coordination council was held, on which an action plan was developed. We are talking about several hundred trucks. The drivers made the final decision on holding the action on Thursday, after Vladimir Putin’s appeal to the Federal Assembly, in which the president did not mention the long -range workers.
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