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March of Change
On December 12, on Constitution Day, a March of Changes will be held in Moscow under the slogan "For a free Russia without war and tyranny!".
Organizer - Committee of Protest Actions. Participants: PARNAS, Yabloko, Solidarity, Civil Initiative.
Declared route: from Pushkinskaya Square along the boulevards to Sakharov Avenue.
From the appeal of the organizers of the March of Change:
“Before our eyes and with our connivance, the ruling regime is leading Russia to a catastrophe. Today, getting rid of this regime is no longer a task facing individual parties or politicians. This is a condition for the survival of the nation. Therefore, every responsible citizen must clearly realize: I will not go out into the street Today - tomorrow I will be left without the country I was born in. We are going on the March of Change to start a campaign of civil dissent, civil disobedience, civil solidarity.
We are entering the March of Change to begin the demolition of the Putin regime. We are joining the March of Change so that in the future we will face our children and grandchildren without shame. We are going to the March of Changes to save our country from the invasion of KGB barbarians. We are joining the March of Change because we are patriots of Russia."
On Friday, the Moscow prosecutor's office warned the organizers of the March of Change about the inadmissibility of violating the law on rallies. One of the applicants, Alexander Ryklin, refused to answer the question whether the action would take place. "I answer everyone at once - I have no idea! I only know what I will do," he wrote . because I want peace in the whole world or I long for an immediate "peaceful revolution". I just got tired of enduring all this."
On December 1, the organizers applied for a 30,000-strong March for Change . In addition to Ryklin, the applicants were Andrei Piontkovsky, Grigory Pasko, Lev Ponomarev, Elena Lukyanova, Igor Yakovenko, Alexei Gorinov and Sergei Sharov-Delaunay.
On December 4, the organizers of the "March of Change" received a response from the mayor's office to their application. However, the document contained neither a ban nor a refusal to approve the action. The document, signed by the first deputy head of the department, Vasily Oleinik, reported that the notification of the organizers had been considered. The following was the text: “In the central part of the city of Moscow, events are being held to prepare the Journey to Christmas festival, the celebration of the New Year 2016 and the Nativity of Christ. infrastructure, interfere with the movement of pedestrians and vehicles, the access of citizens to the infrastructure, violate the rights of citizens who are not participating in it. There was nothing more in the document.
"The document lists the problems facing the mayor's office. Well, we sympathize with it. And on December 12 we go to the "March of Change"!" - wrote Ryklin. He noted that, contrary to the law, the organizers were not offered an alternative route for the march.
On December 5, the head of the Moscow Department of Regional Security and Anti-Corruption, Alexei Mayorov, said that the decision to refuse to approve the March of Change was final . "We unequivocally answered that this event could not be held in this place and at this time," he said.
The previous opposition rally took place in Maryino on 20 September.