Participants in the tractor march to Moscow were stopped several times by the police

Farmers from the Krasnodar region, who left for Moscow on August 21 on 17 tractors from the village of Kazanskaya with the intention of obtaining a meeting with the federal authorities, were repeatedly stopped on the road. This was written on August 22 on Twitter by the director of the Galkinskoye agricultural enterprise Vasily Melnichenko.

“All night the farmers were stopped, driven into a sump, shmonaded, but they still left the Krasnodar Krai, and now they are putting up tents to have a little rest,” wrote Melnichenko on the morning of August 22. Earlier, on the night of August 22, he reported that during the first evening of the action, its participants were stopped on the road seven times already, and three times it was done by the same police officers.

“News from farmers: we drove about 130 km, during this time they were stopped 4 times, each time they rewrote the data of the participants for a long time, hinting in every possible way that it was better for them to return back. A Range Rover was also seen nearby, driven by Vice Governor Korobka and, possibly, instructing traffic police officers, ” wrote on the evening of August 21, when the convoy was 60 kilometers from the Rostov region. Melnichenko

As Aleksey Volchenkov, a participant in the run, told Delovoy Kvartal, traffic police officers stop them every 7–10 kilometers.

The inspectors check the driver's licenses of all tractor drivers, rewrite their numbers and instruct them on the movement of low-speed vehicles along the highway, Volchenko quotes the publication as saying. - But in the area of ​​​​the Zukerovaya beam, they collected documents from us and did not give them away without explaining the reasons. Everything happened late at night. We had to block traffic on the M-4 for some time with tractors. After that, the documents were given to us, and we moved on.

According to the publication, in addition to tractors, one truck, several minibuses and cars participate in the run. The organizers of the action expect the run to take six days, and as they progress, new participants will join them.