Defense from the procession

The Moscow authorities refused to agree on the application of Alexei Navalny on the conduct of an anti -corruption procession in the center of the capital with a subsequent rally. The leader of the Party of Progress reports this on his blog.

“They write that our requirement to“ investigate the facts of corruption of officials ”will violate the rights and interests of citizens. In general, we even know the names of these citizens and, of course, their interests would very much have been violated. Therefore, we are rally.

At the same time, an alternative venue for the action is not proposed in the response to the application instead of the Tverskaya Street specified in the application. According to Navalny, the city hall admitted that this violates the law. Coordination is not responding to the holding of the action in other cities where the initially submitted applications were satisfied.

“As far as I understand, the presidential administration was very impressed by the fact that the rallies about corruption and Dimon were in 79 cities. Moreover, in most cases without any coordination. Spontaneously. Purely people's initiative, and it turns out that this is the application for the largest all-Russian campaign over the past 15 years. Therefore, the Kremlin changed the strategy sharply. At first they issued permissions everywhere, seeing it, smoking, grinning. And with the thought "well, we will see how many people will come out in a panic and calls previously issued approvals," Navalny writes.

Navalny said that he himself would go to the action on March 26. “To what I call you all,” he wrote. “Come to the streets of your cities of the 26th against corruption.”

On March 14, Navalny filed a notification to the Moscow City Hall about the holding of an anti -corruption procession in the center of the capital . The stated goal of the event is “Speaking in support of the requirement to investigate the facts of corruption of senior officials of Russia”. The march and rally were supposed to be held on March 26 from 14 to 17 hours. The procession route proposed for coordination is the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets from Tverskaya Zaposta Square to Okhotnoye.

The film about the property of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "He is not Dimon" was watched by 13 million people, that is, 9 percent of the population of Russia, Navalny noted. “I am sure, at least 10 million,” the politician continued, “they would like to get some explanations from power.” However, the investigation of the facts set forth in the film has not been started. Therefore, I concluded Navalny, "we can’t do without a rally." “We must go out into the street,” he called. Navalny also invited his supporters to simultaneously hold promotions with the same requirement in other largest cities in Russia. As a result, 79 applications for shares were submitted in different cities.

The film "He is not Dimon", prepared by the Foundation for the fight against corruption, the founder of which is Navalny, was published on the Internet on March 2, along with the text version of the report. As it turned out, in addition to the estate of the gravity in the Ivanovo region, which was already reported earlier , the official belongs to the estate in Rublevka and in Sochi, a large estate in the Kursk region, vineyards near Anapa, two sites by the sea in the Krasnodar Territory, a mansion in St. Petersburg. In addition, the prime minister is associated with an offshore owning two yachts. All this property, noted by the FBK, "was purchased for bribes of oligarchs and loans of state banks."

In society, the report and the film caused indignation. Meanwhile, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin does not attach importance to the "creativity of this famous convicted citizen" (Navalny, who has two criminal records in fabricated cases).

On March 5, oppositionist Alexei Knedlyakovsky spent single pickets in different places of Krasnodar. Medvedev was depicted on his poster and the famous phrase of the prime minister was quoted , but you are holding on, ” as well as the page address on which the FBK investigation was published.

The next day in St. Petersburg , six participants in the gathering of Medvedev’s resignation were detained . Some were detained for single pickets, others - for round dances with the chanting of "Krya -Krya" (allusion to a special house for duck in the estate of Mercu). In total, about 40 people took part in the action.