Housing, corruption and stink

The past year was remembered by the most massive street protests since the performances for honest elections in 2011-2012. And the number of detainees, for example, for anti -corruption shares in Moscow on March 26 exceeded a similar number during acceleration on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. But they rally in Russia not only against palaces and houses for ducks.

In the third quarter of 2017, the protest activity of Russians increased by 60 percent compared to the beginning of the year, the Center for Economic and Political Reforms notes. According to the observations of experts, the political protest gave way to socio-economic. Radio Liberty represents an overview of the main reasons why people went to street protest in 2017.

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Radionuclides in the year of ecology

2017 by Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin was declared the year of ecology. According to experts, the program did not achieve its goals. During this time, not only the old environmental problems became aggravated, but new ones also arose. In Chelyabinsk, one of the most polluted cities in Russia, protests are continuing against the construction of a mining and processing plant. The project involves cutting down more than 3 thousand hectares of protective forest. Perhaps the pollution of the only source of water in the city. In the same region there is a city, which is called the most dirty on Earth - Karabash. It is the Southern Urals that is called the most possible place for the release of Rutheneniya-106 radionuclide at the end of September. Later, the Ruthenium cloud covered Europe.

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In Moscow, in the autumn, the smell of hydrogen sulfide was added to the traditional problem of building squares, which residents of the southeast of the Moscow Region complained three months earlier. The power of the stench is called in the same garbage plants and landfills located in the same place, but plan to build two more plants in the area. Local activists regularly go to rallies and picket administrative buildings. The petition with the demand to ban garbage plants in the Moscow region was signed by more than 50 thousand people. Mass meetings against construction are held behind the Moscow Ring Road: it was not possible to agree on a rally in Moscow even in a Hyde Park in Sokolniki.

" And Dima will come out?"

The Foundation for the fight against corruption of Alexei Navalny published on March 2, 2017 the film-investigation "He is not Dimon for you." It talked about undeclared elite real estate Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Without waiting for a clear response from the authorities to the accusations of corruption in the film, Alexei Navalny urged citizens to reach anti -corruption rallies on March 26. He was supported by more than 80 cities of Russia. In some shares, they became the most massive in their history. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets. The police detained about 2 thousand people.

The second wave of anti -corruption rallies took place on June 12 - on the day of Russia. This time, the action was supported in 150 cities of the country. Again tens of thousands of participants, again about 2 thousand detainees.

Anti -corruption slogans also sounded at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny on October 7, on the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, less large -scale in the number of participants and detainees. Most of Navalny’s rallies were not agreed upon by executive authorities.

A housing issue

The housing issue this year seized Muscovites who occupied different sides of the barricades in disputes about renovation. The project involves the demolition of five -story buildings and other Soviet houses, which at the City Hall considered "emergency". Opponents of renovation acted more actively: on May 14 they went to a rally on Sakharov Avenue. In their opinion, the plans of the authorities violate the constitutional right to private property. The White Counter project recorded about 20 thousand participants. In addition, activists regularly picked the State Duma building, went to court and the prosecutor's office. The law on renovation was eventually adopted, and the resettlement of the first buildings was scheduled for February 2018.

The right to housing this year was actively defended by the deceived equity holders. On July 25, they held the All -Russian protest campaign. In March, the Ministry of Construction announced almost 40 thousand citizens awaiting 714 houses. The movement of equity holders evaluates the scale of the problem of 150 thousand deceived people. Some participants in the movement are waiting for the completion of the construction of their own houses for decades. By the end of 2017, the situation has not changed.

The issue of foreign exchange borrowers, whose mortgage debts after the ruble devaluation, increased at the end of 2014, remained unresolved. They could not attract the attention of the authorities to their problem. Last year, borrowers announced hunger strikes at the offices of banks and reception of government institutions, as well as arranged “gandystvo”-without posters and slogans.

The right to work

During the year, due to delays in salaries throughout the country, workers protested. According to Rosstat, by the end of the year the debt to them exceeded 3 billion rubles. More than 50 thousand people are waiting for repayment of debts on wages. For more than a year, in search of salaries for various instances in Moscow, builders of metro and ground communications go. Private firms, after fulfilling the contracts of the capital of the capital, declared bankruptcy employees and refused to pay.

In a similar situation, workers of the elevator plant in Serpukhov: a year without salary, several ineffective appeals to the presidential administration, a series of pickets and a number of rallies in the suburbs demanding to return the earned. The plant was opened four years ago as part of the import substitution program, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev came here, who called this enterprise Obraztsov. A year ago, production was stopped, a bankruptcy procedure was started from January. And the former director of the enterprise opened a new similar plant in Kirov.

The miners of the city of the Gukovo of the Rostov region should be 370 million rubles. Regular payments from the employer stopped two years ago. For more than a year, miners have been spending single pickets daily in Gukov demanding to pay off the debt. Activists are regularly detained and fined. In December 2016, police officers blocked buses with miners who went to Moscow for a protest campaign at the Government House. In 2017, protesters limited themselves to single pickets with the State Duma and appeals to deputies.

For more than two years, mass protests of truckers have been continuing, whose work has become unprofitable due to the Plato hard loading system. On December 1, 2017, the association of carriers of Russia was recognized as a foreign agent after receiving a private donation from abroad. On December 15, truckers announced a ten -day All -Russian strike.

Flying and "drowning" of dachshunds

For more than 15 years, zoo defenders demand to adopt a law on responsible treatment of animals. According to activists, existing legal acts do not work in practice: animals are not protected by law and are legally a thing. The famous Khabarovsk flaws, for example, received a real term for robbery and insulting believers. For brutal handling of animals, they escaped with correctional work. Activists held pickets at the State Duma, arranged hunger strikes, fell for this to the police department, after which they returned to the building of the lower house of the parliament.

The punishment for cruelty to animals increased to 5 years in prison. This is the only thing that the activists achieved. Now the alliance of animal defenders requires to be held accountable under this article by the participants in the demonstration of “liquid breathing” technology. Personents of the immersion of a live dachshund in a closed tank with a liquid in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin showed Russian television channels at the end of the year.

On December 21, the State Duma adopted in the third reading amendments to the Law on Hunting, prohibiting contact sealing stations at which hunting dogs attacked attached game as training. The initiative after five days was rejected by the Federation Council. The first deputy head of the CFS of Economic Policy, Sergei Kalashnikov told his colleagues that when engaged in animal protection, "we are in the same trend, let's say, the protection of sexual minorities and other such laws." The project was returned for revision to the lower house of parliament, earlier this happened in 2017 only once. Zoojaters note that there are hunters among the senators, and the chairman of the Constitutional Constitutional Law Committee Andrei Klishas and the president of the hunting dog breeding Federation.

Strategy-31 is returning

Human rights activists declare a systematic infringement of the rights of citizens to peaceful protest. Over the year, activists throughout the country have accumulated hundreds of illegal, in their opinion, refusals in pickets and rallies. Despite the fact that coordination is notifying, and the right to protest is guaranteed by the constitution. A group of civilian activists announced the beginning of the fight against officials abusing their position. The campaign in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution will continue next year.