Several hundred people went to the Promotion Square of Vladivostok per protest against amendments to the technical regulations of the WTO, which regulate the mandatory installation of the ERA-GLONASS system for foreign-production cars, reports VL.ru.
The rally was attended by residents of Vladivostok, Artem, Ussuriysk and Volno-Dodezhdinsky. According to VL.ru, about 500 people gathered, according to the organizers , up to a thousand, according to the police - a hundred people.
“We are not a rally here, but a meeting,” said Artem Samsonov, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. - The meetings are allowed to be carried out without prior notice to the authorities in a specially designated place for this. Such a place according to the decree of the governor of the region with us is here, on the forecourt. ”
After the activists unfolded the banners, including a reminder of the “February of the 17th”, police officers on duty at the square approached them. “Six citizens were detained for violation of public order. The offenders were delivered to the police department, ”the press service of the Primorsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax.
The police representative clarified that administrative protocols were drawn up against the detainees on the fact of “violation of the established procedure for organizing or conducting a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picket”. A source in power structures informed the agency that all the detainees were taken to court: two organizers were fined 10 thousand rubles.
The audience voted to adopt a resolution with a demand to cancel the requirement to install the ERA-GLONASS system for cars imported from abroad. From January 1, the presence of this system is not possible to register a car without installing this system, however, the regulation does not have the order of equipment with this system of imported used or new machines. As a result, about a thousand cars accumulated in Vladivostok at customs.