
In the Vladimir region, a protest continues against the bill on raising the retirement age. On July 19, he was adopted in the first reading.
Today, the baton in the cities in which the shares have already been held (Vladimir, Yuryev-Polsky) adopted a closed administrative-territorial formation of Raduzhny.
The organization and dissemination of information about the rally was engaged in the usual local schoolboy Vitaly Alexandrov. His acquaintance from Vladimir, who was already 18 years old, helped him. Vitaly, a former participant in many rallies and walks of Alexei Navalny, this time decided to make the event neutral, without reference to this opposition policy. He even asked Navalny’s headquarters not to interfere in the process.
Despite this, the regional “security forces” immediately attempted to disrupt the event. According to the organizers, the FSB canceled the passes to the city of Vladimirites, who wanted to join the rally, conducted “preventive” conversations and threatened the relatives of activists. On the day of the action, they organized on the square where it was supposed to take place, a holiday with loud music and entertainment.
When Vitaly came to the scene in advance, they tried to drive him out of there. This is what he told us:
“Before the rally (11:35) I walked around the square, looked what was happening, took a picture and sent it to the rally chat. Then Olesikov (deputy head of the administration) comes up and tries to grab my phone (couldn’t). I took my hand. I led me somewhere. He threatened me that“ I would not leave for him. Then the young man came up with me and said that he would have to talk about it, if I did not leave.
This did not frighten the opposition, and he safely waited for the rally.
In total, about 80 people took part in it. Representatives of the Communist Party of the Communist Party also came to support city activists.
After several performances, the rally gently faded into the meeting, where all those present were able to join in the discussion of the topic. After 40 minutes, people went home. Immediately after that, the administration event “accidentally coincided in time” ended.