
The Moscow City Hall stated that they would hold an official rally of the memory of those who died in a fire in Kemerovo. Medusa reports with reference to the head of the press service of the Department of Regional Security and Combating Moscow Corruption Elena Romanov.
“I can say that today the action will be on Manezhnaya Square at 17 o’clock, the mayor (Sergey Sobyanin. - Ed.) Already announced this. I can’t say anything about Pushkinskaya - I don’t know yet,” said Romanova.
Later, the head of the department Vladimir Chernikov told the Radio "Says Moscow" that they will not disperse an inconsistent action on Pushkinskaya Square. “Nobody is going to disperse people, but once again I pay attention that we will do everything so that if people really condemn, to completely organize the event on Manezhnaya Square with all precautions and safety measures,” the official said.
On Monday, journalists Lisa Surganova and Philip Dzyadko announced a fee in Moscow in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Kemerovo. They offered to go to Pushkinskaya Square at 19 o’clock on Tuesday. As of 13:45 Moscow time, more than 6 thousand Facebook users announced to take part in the action.
A similar situation has developed in St. Petersburg. There the action was scheduled on Facebook on the Marse Field at 19 o’clock. Participation was announced by 1.2 thousand people. However, the administration of St. Petersburg announced that another event would take place in the city today in memory of those who died in Kemerovo - on Palace Square at 18:00. “If it is more convenient for you to come there in time, please come. If it is convenient at 19:00 on the Marse field, then everything is in force there,” wrote one of the initiators of the action on Marsovo Nikolai Solodnikov.
Immediately after the reports of the tragedy, Muscovites began to bring flowers, children's toys, icons and candles to the representative office of the administration of the Kemerovo region on Bolshaya Tatar Street. The spontaneous memorials of the memory of those killed in Kemerovo arose in many cities of the country. Abroad, people carry flowers to Russian embassies.
The fire in the Winter Cherry occurred on Sunday evening . According to official figures, 64 people became its victims, including 41 children. Eight people are considered missing.
On Monday, mourning for the dead was declared in the Kemerovo region. At the same time, on the same day, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he did not know whether the All-Russian mourning will be announced in connection with the death of people in a fire in Kemerovo. "I still do not have such information, I can’t answer your question. You know that the mourning in the Kemerovo region is three -day. In the federal, I can’t say anything yet," Peskov said .
Starting Monday, the authorities of Ingushetia, Primorsky Territory, Buryatia, the Bryansk region, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg declared Monday. A message about mourning also appeared on the website of the Government of the Ryazan Region, but then it was deleted .
In the afternoon, on Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the announcement of Wednesday on March 28 by the Day of All -Russian mourning in connection with the tragedy in the Winter Cherry. In the morning, the president flew to Kemerovo and, together with the president’s plenipotentiary in the Siberian Federal District, Sergey Chanipolo laid flowers at the burnt building. Then he visited the victims in the hospital in a fire.
At a meeting at the Kemerovo regional administration, Putin, among the reasons for the incident, called criminal negligence and lamented for demography . "What is happening with us, it’s not hostilities, not the release of methane at the mine is unexpected. People came to rest, children. We talk about demography and lose so many people because of what?-Due to criminal negligence, due to sloppiness," the president said.