"Pensioners rally" is sent to the forest park

The Administration of the city of Samara refused the Communist Party of the Communist Party to hold a “rally of pensioners” on the Square of the Heroes of the 21st Army, writes in his blog a deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma, Mikhail Matveev. The authorities proposed to transfer the event away from the center to the forest park to them. The 60th anniversary of Soviet power or to the stadium "Burovik" on the Pugachevsky tract 116-km.

The refusal is due to the fact that on the square on this day there will be an event dedicated to the anniversary of the Crimean Spring.

This “pensioner rally” is not the first, the previous one was in Samara on February 18. According to various estimates, from 950 to 1,500 people, according to various estimates. This is the largest rally in the region since 2012, REGNUM reports .

The reason for protest was the abolition of the regional government of social benefits. From February 1, unlimited free travel of pensioners by transport, housing and communal services benefits were canceled, compensation has been introduced instead, and monthly cash payments were canceled.