Vice-mayor of Barnaul banned workers' picket
On September 5, 2005, a picket of the workers of the Chemical Fiber Plant was to take place in Barnaul. The workers, whom the new owner plans to fire, intended to get a meeting with the new governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin. On the morning of September 5, 2005, picket organizer Natalya Orlova was summoned to the Barnaul city police department, where people who introduced themselves as acting.