A rally against pension reform was held on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow

UPDATE

At a rally on Suvorovskaya Square, Sergey Kirsanov was detained - the on -duty memorial of Boris Nemtsov’s memory on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge.

In Moscow, on Academician Sakharov Avenue, the Communist Party of the Communist Party was held against pension reform. By 13:15 Moscow time, almost 9 thousand people came to him, the White Meter reports on Twitter.

The police estimated the number of participants at 6 thousand people, and the organizers - at one hundred thousand.

The procession began at 12 o’clock, its participants walked along Sakharov Avenue under the Flags of the Communist Party against pension reform and even, as the MBH Media notes, honored the head of the self-proclaimed DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, and sang to the head of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov, the head of the self-proclaimed DPR. "Holy War."

Another rally in Moscow on Suvorovskaya Square was held by Fair Russia, representatives from Yabloko , Labor Russia, trade unions, and also, as Interfax, priest Vsevolod Chaplin, participated in it . The police estimated the number of this action of one and a half thousand people.

On September 2, rallies of regional branches of the Communist Party against pension reform were also held in many cities of Russia. So, for example, in Yekaterinburg and Lipetsk, activists conducted the “shameful regiment” action (like that recently held in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) and walked around the city with portraits of deputies of the Duma faction of United Russia, which voted for the adoption of the law in the first reading.

Recall, on July 28, coordinated actions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation against raising the retirement age took place inMoscow and other cities of Russia. On the next day, on July 29, the shares of the Libertarian Party on Sakharov Avenue were detained by four people.

At the end of July, the Communist Party also made a proposal to hold a federal referendum on raising the retirement age. The question they proposed was approved by the Central Election Commission on August 10. To date, it is known about two initiative subgroups registered by local election commissions from the Communist Party, to start collecting 2 million signatures, they need to have time to organize 43 such subgroups.