In Saratov, teenagers write that they will be kept at school until late on the day of the meeting with Navalny • OVD-Info • RIMA

In Saratov, teenagers write that they will be kept at school until late on the day of the meeting with Navalny

Saratov teenagers write in the Saratov: meeting with Navalny on December 1 group that classes at schools are being postponed to the evening and additional events are scheduled for World AIDS Day. Some of them attribute such changes in the schedule to the fact that on this day a meeting with politician Alexei Navalny is to take place in the city.

“In gymnasium number 2. They introduced the 2nd shift on Friday (although our school studies exclusively on the first). Although for 10 years of study, I have never seen anyone in our school studying in the 2nd shift. HERE IS A FREE COUNTRY FOR YOU, ”writes one of the group members.

The Svobodnye Novosti news agency claims that such measures were taken at least by Lyceum No. 47, schools No. 36, 86, 49, 33 and the technical school named after. Gagarin. The publication also cites a survey of schoolchildren who spoke on condition of anonymity about changes in the schedule.

“We have events in our school for the evening. For those who wanted to go to a meeting with Navalny, this is probably unfair. Appearance is obligatory,” said one of the interlocutors of the agency.

On Friday, December 1, a meeting with politician Alexei Navalny is to take place in Saratov's Hyde Park.
On Friday , it became known that on the night of December 1, the organizers of the meeting were detained, the equipment for the stage was called stolen by the police and confiscated, and a cargo with paraphernalia of the politician's election campaign was detained at the airport.
On Thursday, were detained the local coordinator of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Mikhail Murygin, and campaign volunteer Stanislav Votolin . To Murygin in the police department they did not allow a defense lawyer.
The administration of Saratov rejected 2018 notifications of holding a rally-meeting with Alexei Navalny. In order to submit such a large number of applications, a special computer program was developed that generated notifications about pickets on various streets of Saratov at different times.