The campaign takes acceleration

Violations on mass promotions and rallies in anticipation of the presidential elections will be harshly suppressed. This was stated by the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Gorova, reports Interfax.

“I would like to pay attention to very important issues related to the elections of the president and mayor of the capital. We two hands for citizens granted by the Constitution and federal laws to conduct processions, rallies and demonstrations. But absolutely tough violations of these laws should be approached,” Gorova said at the expanded meeting of the collegium of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“At this site, interests are swinging the situation, trying to attract attention to themselves through a violation of the law,” the deputy minister said. “It’s hard for me to imagine a situation that was, for example, on June 12, when a certain category of people specially blocked the entrance to the holiday, organized by the government of the capital, on the day of the state holiday. And now they will be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights!”

“We equally, without participating in political matters, must record measures to violators of the law. We must calmly relate to this that quasi -Politics were, is and will be,” added Gorova.

On January 12, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika called one of the main tasks of the supervisory authority the prevention of inconsistent public actions during the presidential election campaign. "In the coming year, the prosecutor’s office is faced with a new task: to ensure the legality during the campaign for the presidential election of the Russian Federation. Porcery of supervisory means of social tension, inconsistent public actions and other violations that threaten stability and security," Chaika said.

On December 25, 2017, the CEC illegally refused to register the initiative group to nominate politician Alexei Navalny as a presidential candidate. After that, Navalny announced the preparation of the All -Russian protest against non -competitive elections. The action is scheduled for Sunday, January 28. The essence of the “voter strikes”, the politician explained, is not to recognize Putin's “reassignment”, boycott them and campaigning for the boycott of other citizens, as well as organize observation in the areas in order to prevent falsification of the turnout. “It is finally clear that Putin and the Kremlin need only a turnout,” the politician noted.

On January 18, Navalny said that the action will be held in more than 90 cities . "In 90 percent of cases, the shares are agreed. Most often, rallies are agreed. There are more failures on processions. In half the cases where we declared a march and a rally, they coordinate only a rally," the politician noted.

The authorities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and a number of cities proposed to transfer shares to the outskirts of cities. “We regard this as an illegal refusal and we will carry out where we notified. In full accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court,” Navalny noted. “We have submitted completely legal applications. Moreover, we submitted even a preliminary notification for a month. Any refusal will be absolutely illegal, and we will not obey him.” The politician called on January 28 to go to Moscow on Tverskaya Street.