"Am I continuing to kindle?"

In Novosibirsk, a rally of supporters of Alexei Navalny was held. Report "Medusa"

On September 22, an oppositionist Alexei Navalny was held in Novosibirsk. The second week on weekends the politician travels through the regions and spends on a rally a day - at first there was a tour of Murmansk, Yekaterinburg and Omsk, now the turn of Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk came. For each of the rallies comes from one to several thousand people. The authorities agree on rallies, but at the same time in all cities where Navalny was already, they conduct their contracts, however, not so massive. "Medusa" tells how the police rally in Novosibirsk passed.

The pre -election rally of oppositionist Alexei Navalny was agreed by the Novosibirsk authorities on the embankment of the Ob River - this is about half an hour walk from the city center. The authorities, led by the communaster of Anatoly Lokotet, did not interfere with the rally, but they set up a real competition for various events at the same time with a rally.

On September 19, the regional committee of the Communist Party (it is also headed by the mayor Anatoly Lokot) announced a rally in support of North Korea. It was supposed to begin an hour earlier than the shares of Navalny, but much closer to the city center. The event caused bewilderment of many social activists and politicians of Novosibirsk: before local communists have not publicly loves the DPRK, and the South Korean city of Tajon was publicly demonstrated, and one of the twin of Novosibirsk is. “Today, the people and leadership of North Korea make every effort to protect their state from aggression of the United States of America. The Novosibirsk Communists say decisive no US imperialist policy and their threats to the people of North Korea, ”the event was announced, which was a surprise even for some employees of the regional committee. On September 21, Lokot told reporters that all issues on holding the action “can be addressed to the [US President], Mr. Trump, who now decided to sharply intensify.”

The cinema "Luxor Novosibirsk" appointed the "Special pre -premiere show" of the film by Alexei Matilda at exactly the same time as the Navalny rally. Although back in early September, representatives of Luxor said that the premiere would be held on October 26–27, and there was no talk of any special pre -law. Luxor is a private cinema, but the film was directly advertised by the city administration officials. "Friends! Glad to report the first to report that already this Friday, September 22, a month earlier than the dates of the All -Russian premiere, the movie of the movie “Matilda” will be shown in Novosibirsk !!! ” - wrote the head of the Department of Culture of the City Hall Anna Tereshkova on her Facebook.

“In terms of creative level, this, of course, is much higher than a rally in support of North Korea. And it’s great that Alexei, even without becoming the president, is already very effectively seeking freedom of culture in a single city, ”said Sergey Boyko, chief of the regional headquarters of Navalny's regional headquarters.

On the day of the rally, dozens of sites published news that all participants in the action in Novosibirsk are identified using the FindFace application and that only “0.1% of the population” will come to the meeting. One of the largest publics of the city "incident. Novosibirsk ”(more than 288 thousand subscribers) posted a warning that the personal data of the participants in the previous rallies of Navalny in Omsk and Yekaterinburg“ got to the Web ”, therefore, residents of Novosibirsk“ can suffer as a result of Internet ranging ”.

A few hours before the rally on the Ob embank, the sewer broke out. Hot water poured out of the collector and began to flood the square. The organizers who were frightened for sound -integrating equipment called the emergency service, she managed to cope with the accident.

As a result, the square at the monument to Alexander III on the Obi embankment was still filled with people. According to the city hall, 3.5 thousand people came to the rally - with the declared number of a rally of one and a half thousand participants.

The action was launched through three passes from different sides. The police took the participants very strictly. Everyone took a few minutes to check. For metal detectors (usually they are not used on street promotions in Novosibirsk), people stood in jackets with inscriptions on the backs “Look for your photo on jesuismadan.com”. One of these people defiantly pushed the shoulders of the rally participants passing by him. People in jackets told Medusa that they flew from St. Petersburg, but refused to talk under the record.

“We participate in the political life of the country, like you,” one of them said.

On the support of the first railway bridge across the Ob (it stands on the embankment as a monument), an unknown in dark clothes and a mask climbed. He did not respond to the police requirements to go down, and those had no stairs. A few minutes before the start of the action, he hung a large banner on the support with a photograph of a half -naval Navalny and the inscription “Cusan 2018”. The man tried to crawl out of the support from the police waiting for him below, but was still detained. They shouted from the crowd: "Trush, take off the mask!" And "Everyone should know the hero in person!" The young man took to the police bus, the rally began, and about half of its participants remained behind the police fences - they continued to inspect them.

Actress Tatyana Lazareva, who became the “proxy” of Navalny, and the chief of the Novosibirsk headquarters, Politics Sergey Boyko, performed from the stage. “We were offered a northern airport, any places as far as possible from the metro and buses, if only you could not come,” he said from the stage. - Even this, not the best, managed to get under the threat of an unauthorized event, that is, they are afraid of us. There were threats to our applicant, they said: “You will have a lot of people, they will suppress each other, we will put responsibility to you, we will put it in prison, finish”. ”

Boyko recalled the action in support of the DPRK, and the Matilda, and the threats that "he would record the FSB." “The Parliamentary Party [Communist Party], think about it, holds a rally not in defense of the unfortunate citizens of North Korea, who was not lucky to be born there, not in defense of hungry children, but in defense of the North Korean regime. This is a great illustration of what we will choose in March. We all need to make a choice, and this will not be a choice between Vova and Lesha, no matter how we all want this, it will be the choice of the future of our country. This will be a choice between Europe and North Korea, ”Boyko said.

Navalny began to perform at dusk. No one thought to disperse, metal detectors continued to be squealing, skipping more and more new people.

-When I read the statements of your governor [Vladimir Gorodetsky], your plenipotentiary [Sergei Chanipolo] constantly shows this: “What is he going here? Who needs him here at all? " Do someone need me here? - began Navalny.

- Yes! The crowd shouted.

“They say that I am an extremist, I kindle it.” Am I continuing to kindle? - continued Navalny.

- Yes! - again came in the crowd, but a little less confident, even with a slight interrogative intonation.

Navalny spoke about the local agenda. He reminded the Novosibirsk residents of scandalous projects for the construction of the fourth bridge across the Ob, which will be paid, and two garbage sorting complexes. Agreements on them were drawn up so that the regional budget was obliged to compensate the investors with the undertaken income. The concessionaires are controlled by the VIS group of companies associated with the head of the FEC Mosenergo Igor Rotenberg, the son of a friend of President Putin Arkady Rotenberg.

- Question. Why Rotenberg? Why? - Navalny asked the audience.

“Putin's friend,” the man shouted out of the crowd.

- How does it work at all? Why does one person - children's comrade Putin - builds everything at all? I'm not sure that he was in Novosibirsk at all. And already according to the scheme that is registered on paper, it is clear that they will steal half the money, ”said Navalny.

He asked the audience about their salaries, criticized the authorities for spending billions on controversial concessions, but could not find one and a half billion rubles on the eastern bypass of Novosibirsk - a bypass road that is built at the expense of the federal budget - and there was enough money for the first place.

At the end of the rally, a man who introduced himself as a member of United Russia Sergei went to the stage. Navalny with pleasure began a discussion with him. The parties argued about the sources of each other's income - Sergey insisted that Navalny’s trips were expensive, and where he takes money is not clear, while “United Russia” lives at the expense of membership fees, and he personally, Sergei, pays them monthly. Navalny in response said that United Russia receives money from the budget, and people take part in the financing of his campaign, for this rally and gathered. Sergei predictably began to concede, say that he even sympathizes with some ideas of Navalny and signed on his channel in Yetube.

For about fifty people gathered for a rally in support of the DPRK, held under the slogans “Yankees, hands off North Korea” and “protect Korea, as in 1953”. The show “Matilda” did without noticeable incidents, the cinema only picked up several Orthodox activists who condemned the “lies on the Holy Tsar-Martyr”.

Yaroslav Vlasov , Taiga.info