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In the Russian regions, a mass protest of truckers began, which opposed the system of raising for travel along the federal routes Plato. In Primorye, the column of heavy vehicles lined up on the outskirts of Ussuriysk, according to DPS_VL Instagram.

Only private carriers participate in the action. Some leaders of transport companies gave their employees a vacation day. The acting chairman of the trade union of transport carriers of the region, Peter Kupriyanov, noted that he supports not all paragraphs of the requirements put forward by the association of carriers of Russia. "We agree only with the abolition of the Plato system, by restoring order on weight -gum control and a change in the working and rest regime for drivers for Russian realities," Kupriyanov said.

Several dozen trucks stand at the entrance to Blagoveshchensk. The participants in the action said that they tried to coordinate the holding of the action with the city authorities, but they were refused. According to drivers, they do not violate anything, stand on the sidelines, the bodies are empty.

Near Kazan, about 200 heavy trucks gathered on the M7 highway. Truckers call on the drivers of truck drivers to join the action.

Several dozen trucks and cars are on the sidelines of the highway near St. Petersburg. According to the participants in the action, up to 300 trucks will take part in it. "The leader of the protesting truckers Andrei Bazhutin was deprived of their rights, took the documents, do not let them come to a strike," reports journalist Arseny Vesnin.

In the evening, "Mediazona" reported with reference to Vesnina that Bazhutina was arrested for 14 days on charges of driving without rights.

As Fontanka.ru reports with reference to the Open Russia functionar Andrei Pivovarov, at about 7 in the morning on the Square of the Proletarian dictatorship in St. Petersburg, next to Smolny, where the city administration is located, the truckers burned the Niva jeep. They put tires in the car and fell them. To whom the jeep belonged and who exactly staged arson, Pivovarov did not specify. According to the "driver of St. Petersburg", firefighters extinguished the fire in 20 minutes. The Niva has a motor compartment burned out.

Meanwhile, the ATS -Info reports that the OPR coordinator in Novorossiysk Evgeny Boldyrev was detained on Saturday, and on Sunday - arrested for 10 days on charges of non -payment of a fine appointed to him in February. Where exactly the activist is contained after the trial is unknown, his wife said.

Boldyrev was detained by traffic cops when he rode by car with Symbolism of ODR and stickers calling to join the strike.

The detention of protesters also go in other cities of Russia. In Surgut, 25 people were detained, four in Krasnodar, in Tula - two.

On March 20, the Interregional Trade Union of Professional Drivers announced the beginning of March 27 of the All-Russian strike of carriers under the slogan "You can’t live like that!". Along with the abolition of the Plato system, truckers require the resignation of the government and the abolition of repressive laws.

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As part of the action in Dagestan, they intend to completely stop 100 percent of the cargo transportation; In the Southern Federal District - 70 percent. Drivers promise a serious struggle with strategrachers. The leader of the All -Russian Village Council, Vasily Melnichenko, guaranteed strikeers to support from farmers.

On Saturday, representatives of OPR Andrei Bazhutin and Mikhail Kurbatov said that at least 10 thousand truckers would take part in the "passive" strike on Monday. They will build columns from heavy trucks along the roads. Supporters of active protests among the participants are many times less. “It is clear that people are intimidated, they are afraid to say a protest loudly,” Kurbatov said. According to him, the participants of the strike are still discussing the forms of active protests.

In the fall of 2015, the government introduced the Plato system, which involves a fee for drivers of heavy vehicles for federal routes. This fee goes to the structures of the oligarch Igor Rotenberg. The introduction of Plato entailed large -scale protests of truckers, which continue with different intensity until today. In some cases, the shares of drivers were suppressed by the police, and protesters were delayed according to administrative articles.

On March 21, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decision on the increase in the Platon system on April 15 by 25 percent , to 1.91 rubles per 1 kilometer of the path. It was previously planned that the tariff would double - from the current 1.53 rubles to 3.06 rubles per kilometer traveled.