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Bashkortostan did not agree on a rally against high heating tariffs
The authorities of Bashkortostan did not agree on a rally against high heating tariffs. This was reported by UFA.RU with reference to the local activist of the Stopbashrts movement Ivan Apaev.
The event was going to hold in Ufa on January 31 near the Sports Palace. Officials referred to a difficult epidemiological situation with coronavirus and refused to coordinate the rally.
“Together with the social activist Albert Rakhmatullin, they filed a notification to the regional government for organizing a rally. A refusal came, ”Ufa.ru reports Apaev's words.
On the same day, January 18, Rakhmatullina and Apaev were detained in Ufa, when they, along with other citizens, came to the republic’s house demanding to solve the problem of the high cost of housing and communal services and, in particular, heating.