Furious, but strike

Today, the “Broke of Voters”, announced by Alexei Navalny and his supporters, is held throughout Russia - an action in support of the boycott of the presidential election. It began in the Far East and Siberia: the police were delayed by the participants and the organizers, the weather interfered with them, and in Vladivostok local officials tried to disrupt the “strike”, putting out the barriers from snow -removing equipment.

Khabarovsk

According to the press secretary of the campaign of Navalny Ruslan Shadadinov , the authorities allowed the government in the vast majority of cities-perhaps out of fear of repetition of events on March 26, when many people came to inconsistent rallies and processions. Nevertheless, in Khabarovsk, where the coordination was received, the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters Alexei Vorsin received 15 days of arrest precisely for the call to join the “strike”. He published this post on the social network even before the authorities were received to the application for the action, and the villi was accused of illegal campaigning.

Later, the Khabarovsk authorities still gave permission, but they refused to provide the central square of the city, citing the fact that it would be busy. The supporters of Navalny were offered to gather at the Dynamo stadium. Despite the absence of the coordinator, the Khabarovsk “strike” was organized, according to some estimates, several hundred people gathered at it, who did not interfere with the frost. In the morning in the city there were about –25.

The participants were acted by activists of the local headquarters - they mainly talked about the degradation of the Russian education system, which, in their opinion, was waiting for anything good while maintaining the current government. Then the column of protesters went to check Lenin Square - is it really, as the officials claimed? The participants in the procession, which, by the way, was not agreed, made sure that the area was empty, there was no event on it.

South Sakhalinsk

Around the same time in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, at –18, in front of the Rodina recreation center-today it is the only place in the city where it is allowed to hold socio-political actions-about 40 protesters gathered. There were approximately the same number of employees in civilian clothes and journalists. The night before, the police detained the organizers of the action - at that time they hung leaflets inviting to the rally. Four people, including 16-year-old schoolboy Stepan Losev , who filed an application for a rally, ended up in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The police drawn up protocols under Part 1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code ("violation by the organizer of the public event of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally") and part 1 of article 5.12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ("Production or distribution during the preparation and conduct of elections, referendum of printed, audiovisual and other agitation materials established by the legislation on elections and the legislation on elections and referenda ").

According to the first article, the supporters of Alexei Navalny face a fine of up to 20 thousand rubles, in the second - a fine of up to 1,500 rubles.
“Apparently, we followed or listened to phones,” says Stepan Losev. - We gathered near the shopping center and went along the street, hanging campaign materials. Immediately behind us were police officers who immediately broke everything that we hung, and then took us to Goroddel. There we spent five hours.

The police from Navalny's supporters took the obligation to appear on January 28 at 10 a.m. to testify. Therefore, today the action began without the organizers - they came closer to the end of the event. The Sakhalin "strike" was calm, in complete silence. For all the time, not a single slogan or call was shouted. Nevertheless, there were no detentions: the police took a 21-year-old student to give explanations. She is accused of violating the rules of the rally. The girl covered her face with a scarf, and this is prohibited at public events.

Magadan

In Magadan, about 50 people came to the “Stuffing of Voters”, this is an average number for shares in the city, the coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny Pavel Konykov told the Siberia.S. Real. According to him, police officers were actively interested in participants in the maintenance of leaflets. “On the eve of the Ministry of Emergencies, it warned of a hurricane and the need to cancel public events, half an hour after the beginning the snow began to cling to the face,” said Konkov.

Vladivostok

One of the few cities where the action was not agreed by the authorities was Vladivostok. Despite this, closer to 14.00 participants began to gather at the central square. Many immediately complained that the weather was not lucky today: a strong piercing wind blew. The area was blocked by snowplower equipment, despite the complete lack of snow as such. True, in the center of the square lay a small bunch of ice-covered ice-people were lost in conjectures where it came from, because there was no ice town on the square this year. And they were in no hurry to remove bulldozers - stood, performing the function of fence.

- It was expected, because those people who are now sitting in power will not simply give up.

Everyone is afraid to speak, but everyone thinks, but what will happen if Putin dies?

In Russia, now there is such a situation that everyone is afraid to speak, but everyone thinks, but what will happen if Putin is dying? We have actually leader. Our people are politically not mature. We need to grow, ”said the member of the rally Alexei .

- We are not afraid of detentions. We are right, not them. For the sake of the rally, by the way, I was forced to spend the night outside the hostel, because we were pressed at the FEFU for our political views, ” Tatyana’s volunteer of the headquarters of Navalny’s headquarters told the correspondent.

With the pedestal of the monument to fighters for the power of the Soviets, the organizers of the action chanted: “No false elections!”, “Elections without competitors to Putin are not elections!”. After a short performance in the central square, the protesters went along the central streets of the city, chanting "Putin - thief!". According to the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Nika Panfilov , a total of about 1000 people participated in the action.

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Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, at least 200 people gathered at the rally agreed with the city administration today. The head of the local headquarters Sergey Bespalov, before the rally began, said that the police were detained at the airport by the Banner of the Voter strike, which was supposed to hang behind the stands.

The police carefully and rather slowly inspected the people who came to the protest. The lawyer of the Irkutsk headquarters of Navalny Stepan Bobrov ensured that the organizer of the rally be released, and the banner is returned. Shortly before the end of the action, the banner still managed to set the words "strike" under the chanting with the assembled. Member of the rally volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters Sergei Gorkunov said from the rostrum that the police detained him “for drugs”, they were looking for drugs in the car, but, having not found anything, let go.

Krasnoyarsk

In Krasnoyarsk, about 400 people came to the campaign "Broken voters". The supporters of Alexei Navalny did not stop the frost, about -24, and the weather is very windy. The organizers from the stage said that now the main thing is not to go to the upcoming presidential elections in March, because the authorities do not allow opposition candidates to participate in them.

“In addition, it is very important to gain a large number of observers in order to prevent falsification,” the activist of the Krasnoyarsk headquarters of Navalny Ruslan Rudenko told the Siberia. Real correspondent. - After all, we know that now there is no geographical binding to the constituency, and this makes it possible to use the so -called "carousels".

Almost all speakers said that they were tired of widespread censorship: the media that reveal the facts of corruption block, officials indicate that they do not allow opposition candidates to watch and listen to the election. The townspeople who came to the rally supported the speakers, loudly chased: "The strike!" The weather did not have a long rally, and the action ended in half an hour. Everything went peacefully, there were no detainees and provocateurs.

Novosibirsk

About one and a half thousand people, according to the organizers, took part in the authorized procession "Voter strikes" in Novosibirsk. People accompanied by the police went along the northern part of Krasnoye Prospekt, the main city highway, towards North Airport, where a rally was planned.

In the hands of the participants were Russian flags and balls with symbols "20! 8". The procession was accompanied by the chanting of the slogan: "This is not an election, it is a deception." The action took place in the district remote from the city center, however, according to the head of the Novosibirsk branch of the "Party of Progress" Andrei Gladchenko , this did not prevent the citizens from conveying the position of participants:

- Our action for the first time in a long time passed among densely populated residential quarters full of the population not yet covered by us. This is something new and really important in our protest movement, ”he told the correspondent of Siberia. Reali.

The organizers, at the request of officials, were forced to exclude the term “voters strike” from the declared topic of the protest campaign, since, according to representatives of the municipality, the word “strike” refers exclusively to labor relations. As a result, in official documents, the topic of the rally is designated as "refusal to participate in the vote in the conditions of non -competitive elections."

Kemerovo

In Kemerovo, on the way to the action in support of the "voter strikes", the coordinator of the headquarters Alexei Navalny Ksenia Pakhomova was detained. "I was detained. They pulled me out of a taxi. Kemerovo, burn !!!" - She wrote on Twitter .

Earlier it was reported that eight people in civilian clothes tried to break into the apartment of the coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny in Kemerovo Ksenia Pakhomova. As she informed the Siberia. Reali correspondent, unknown people demanded to open the door without introducing themselves and without explaining the reason for the visit. A supporter of the opposition suggested that these were police officers and the Federal Security Service.

The administration of Kemerov’s supporters of Navalny refused the procession due to the current ban on any public events in the city center. The rally was allowed on the outskirts in the private sector, limiting a protest action in time. Nevertheless, several dozens of protesters arranged a procession along Sovetsky Prospekt, chanting the slogans "Russia will be free" and "we are power here." Then they tried to break into the square in front of the mayor, where at that moment celebrations were held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Kemerovo region and the "day of snow". On the square, according to eyewitnesses, music played very loudly, and nearby there were two autosaks and two riot police cars.

"The protesters did everything absolutely correctly: they expressed their hands. The police used force, dragged peacefully tuned citizens on ice to break the chain. At least 20 people were detained," the VKontakte promotion page says.

Tomsk

Ten people, including the coordinator of the regional headquarters of Navalny Ksenia Fadeev , were detained by the police during the promotion of the participants in the “voter strike” in Tomsk. Fadeeva herself informed the correspondent "Siberia. Reali" about this.

- We said that we were finishing, and we were invited. It was not tough, ”Fadeeva said about the detention. The action was not agreed on how many people took part in it, "it is difficult to evaluate" - the column of the participants was long, - she said.

"The authorities unreasonably invited us to transfer the rally ... We went to the South Square in accordance with our constitutional right to peaceful meetings. Do you see a threat to public security in these inspirational photos? We also do not. And yet the police detained the coordinator of the headquarters Ksenia Fadeeva. Now she is in the Kirov Department of Internal Affairs," the Page of the Navalny Staff said in the Kirovsky Page " social networks Facebook .

Tyumen

About 150 people gathered at the site in the recreation area of the Zarechnaya microdistricts of Tyumen.

“Our rally is similar to the expanded meeting of the headquarters volunteers,” Alexander Kunilovsky told the assembled coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Tyumen. - Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are most likely a little more than us.

Kunilovsky called on the audience to join the ranks of observers.

“In 2017, our country has changed very much,” said the coordinator of the Tyumen headquarters. - Millions of people became participants in the political process, finally understood what was happening, watched the videos of Alexei Navalny. I hope that each of you will come to our headquarters and go to polling stations by an observer. On March 18, we will fix the real turnout, which will be in our areas. This is what our victory will look like.

Kunilovsky called the police "devils" and "guards of those thieves who are in power." He accused the deputies of the City Duma of Tyumen of a salary of utilities from communal companies for increasing housing and communal services tariffs. The police did not take any actions against the participants and organizers of the rally.

The "creative person and entrepreneur", as the assembled presented the Tyumen guide by Nikolai Drobunin , called the participants of the action "the most daring people of Tyumen."

“I want us to not re -elect one person 35 times.” I don’t like that the head of state says: “Give a rotation of personnel,” and does not go away for 18 years, ”Dribunin said.

- All social services, all medicine, schools - all employees undertake to vote. Threaten either dismiss or shoot. (Laughs . ) I would like these elections to be honest, on the blockchain. And our government needs a piece of paper, which can be fixed and done as they need, ”said Irina , director of the law firm.

Another participant in the action of the electrician Igor in the commentary "S." called the situation of "abnormal" in Russia:

- Other countries go further and further from us, we are behind. Such stability, I think, is not needed.

“I came to defend my civic position,” says young entrepreneur Evgeny Vershinin . - I will boycott the elections on March 18. Because there are no honest elections, and this needs to be changed not just at the legislative level, you need to change personnel.

Eugene added that the current president should not participate in the elections. The young man admitted: "Even if we all went to the polls, even if Alexei Navalny could run for, he would still win himself who."

The “voter strike” lasted about half an hour in Tyumen and passed without excesses. For heating those who froze, the organizers drove a passenger bus with Yekaterinburg numbers.

Novokuznetsk

In Novokuznetsk, the "Broke of the Voters" was disrupted. An hour before its beginning, the police blocked the exit from Navalny's headquarters. According to the staff of the headquarters, at the time of writing the material inside there are 5 people who are guarded by 15 police officers.

Those of the organizers of the action who came to the area of public events were immediately detained to give explanations. About 20 people wanted to take part in the "strike".

- There was no spread of leaflets, they lay in a backpack. Now we give explanations to the police officers, ”the lawyer of Navalny’s headquarters Dmitry Miropoltsev told the Siberian Headquarters to the place of detention.

Recall, on January 28, in Novokuznetsk on the Square of Public events, the city authorities organized events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Kemerovo region. Despite the temperature of –25 ° C, teachers of schools in the city were obliged to come to the holiday .