Navalny raised 100 cities

The all -Russian "voter strike" covered most of the major cities of the country, thousands of people participated in it. The police were correct even on inconsistent shares

Promotion in support of the “Stuffers of Voters” in Moscow, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

Frost did not frighten

The all -Russian “voter strike” covered, according to the headquarters of Navalny, more than 100 cities of Russia (Supporters of Navalny called the figure of 118 cities). The data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is noticeably more modest - 46. In the coordinated shares (and, according to Alexei Navalny himself, voiced by him on the eve, “in the whole country in 80% of the coordination there are” in the opposite of the position of the authorities of Moscow and St. Petersburg), as the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims, 3,500 people took part. Moreover, from the point of view of the opposition, the figure should look more than an inconsistent campaign in Moscow , according to which, according to eyewitnesses, thousands reached out, in any case, at least 4-5 thousand in the second place in the number of protests- St. Petersburg : 2-3 thousand people should look like. Thus, inconsistent actions in the two largest cities in Russia gathered the largest number of participants.

Moscow, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @spektronline

St. Petersburg, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny_SPB

In Yekaterinburg , at one and a half thousandth rally, led by Leonid Volkov, head of the Navalny headquarters, was the mayor of the city Evgeny Roizman .

People who have heeded the call of Navalny to defend their right to honest elections and the replacement of the authorities did not even frighten severe frost - in Yakutsk a rally took place at a temperature of –45 ° C, and in Samara , about a thousand people gathered in the Homeland square in the industrial outskirts of the city. The threats of police repressions were not frightened: the Ministry of Internal Affairs two days before the rally warned of their intention to act “absolutely hard” against violators of the law.

Yekaterinburg, January 28, 2018 Photo: Marta Radishcheva

Yakutsk, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

Samara, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

The emphasis on prevention

In many cases, the police tried to do preventive searches the day before or a few days before the start of the action, but directly during the rallies and processions behaved quite restrained.

In a number of cities, the authorities proposed original decisions: in Chelyabinsk, schoolchildren were not allowed for a rally, referring to the fact that this is an “18+” action; In Kaluga , a machine with equipment for a rally crashed several times; In Vladivostok, they tried to disrupt the action on the central square of the city, scattering ice there and driving the tractors for its cleaning.

Chelyabinsk, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

Vladivostok, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

The authorities throughout the country clearly abandoned the strict repressive measures in relation to the participants of inconsistent shares. They were limited mainly by calls through the Megaphone “immediately disperse”, but the gas stations on duty at the squares where the shares passed were unclaimed.

Participants in the unauthorized procession in St. Petersburg were allowed to take a walk along Nevsky and reach Palace Square. In Moscow, disagreements reached the Duma, and some to the house of the government.

In Kaliningrad, the police allowed the rally participants to 250-300 people to hold a one and a half kilometer procession around the city, after which the associates of Yegor Chernyuk, the organizer of the action, the coordinator of the Kaliningrad headquarters of Navalny, formed a living ring around it so that it was not detained.

In Chelyabinsk, schoolchildren were not allowed to the rally, citing the fact that this is the “18+” action; In Kaluga, a machine with equipment for a rally crashed several times; In Vladivostok, they tried to disrupt the action on the central square of the city, scattering ice there and driving the tractors for its cleaning

Throughout Russia, according to the OVD-Info, 340 people were detained (most of all in Ufa and Cheboksary -50 each), in most cases they were single in nature-basically problems arose among the organizers of the shares and headquarters. In Moscow, Alexei Navalny himself was detained on Tverskaya Street.

Kaliningrad, January 28, 2018 Photo: Alexey Milovanov

Ufa, January 28, 2018 Photo: Twitter / @teamnavalny

But one criminal case following the results of the shares on January 28 may still appear. The participant of the Moscow campaign Konstantin Saltykov, detained on Pushkinskaya Square, can start a criminal case under Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the application of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities), Polina Nemirovskaya, the Open Russian Human Rights Procedure, told Twitter. “He was beaten in Avtosak, beaten in the groin. While the lawyer called an ambulance for a medical examination, they began to take explanations from Konstantin in order to transfer materials for a test of 318, ”she wrote.

Slogans and lighting

The set of slogans was characteristic of this kind of action (“Russia without Putin”, “Russia will be free”, “Putin for retirement”), but new ones related to dishonest elections appeared: “Elections without a choice”, “Russia is not cattle, the election - boycott”, “There is no farce in the elections”. In Perm , for example, the slogans were mainly devoted to the dishonest procedure on March 18: “This is not the election!”, “The CEC is preparing us a circus!”, “There are no elections without a choice.” In the front row of the protesters stood a girl with a home -made poster "We will not let Russia turn into North Korea."

Perm, January 28, 2018 Photo: Sergey Khakimov

The state media talked about the strike either extremely restrained, or did not tell at all. Against this background, a live broadcast on the Navalny Live YouTube channel with a report on the course of the “voter strikes” entered the leaders of Russian trends on YouTube

The state media talked about the strike either extremely restrained, or did not tell at all. Against this background, the live broadcast on the Navalny Live YouTube channel with constant messages and inclusions using the Periscope service Pictures from different cities of the country about the progress of the “voter strikes” entered the leaders of Russian trends on YouTube-more than 62 thousand people looked at the peak.

The broadcast for 14 hours was carried out from the secret studio while the police hacked the doors to the premises of the FBK office and the headquarters of Navalny in Moscow, and the building of the business center, where the office is located, was cordoned off.