The opposition is tired of the results of the action. "I'm tired of it." Unauthorized action of “Open Russia” against Putin in photos and videos. Who will be Putin's successor, or an old song about the main thing
Illustration copyright Reuters Image caption According to eyewitnesses, about 300 people gathered for the rally in St. Petersburg, at least 30 were detained
On April 29, in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, “Fed up” rallies were held, organized by the “Open Russia” opposition movement founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the organizers, the participants of the action should send appeals to the reception offices of the President of Russia with a request to Vladimir Putin not to run for another presidential term in 2018.
A protest action in St. Petersburg turned into arrests. According to Novaya Gazeta correspondents from the scene, about 30 people were detained.
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How the action took place in different cities of Russia“About 300 people gathered for the rally. When Andrei Pivovarov carried the ballot box with appeals to the administration, his group was immediately cordoned off - they were detained and were already moving towards other people,” said Elena Lukyanova, a photojournalist for Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg.
According to Open Russia estimates, 50 people were detained. “We can say that everyone is being taken in different directions,” the OR website reports.
In some cities the action was approved. In others there were also arrests.
In Moscow, the “Fed up” rally was also unsanctioned, but passed peacefully.
Image caption In Moscow, protesters lined up outside the presidential administration receptionMoscow authorities proposed holding the rally on Sakharov Avenue, but the organizers did not agree. They insisted that the action take place near the presidential administration.
As a correspondent of the BBC Russian Service reported from the scene, on Slavyanskaya Square, near the monument to Cyril and Methodius, a few participants in the action began to gather at one o’clock in the afternoon. By this time, significant police forces had been deployed in the square, as well as in the adjacent streets, underground passages and even metro stations.
Using megaphones, the police urged people not to gather and go straight to Ilyinka, 23 - to the reception of the presidential administration.
In about 20 minutes, the column of protesters - according to our correspondent, there were several hundred people in it - together with numerous journalists, reached the reception building. You can only get to the entrance of the building through metal detectors, so traffic in this place has slowed down significantly.
A line of riot police officers lined up along the line.
Activists of Open Russia told a BBC correspondent that during the action in Moscow they distributed more than a thousand forms for drawing up a letter of demands to Vladimir Putin. All these letters were then delivered to the reception office of the presidential administration within more than two hours.
Image caption The Moscow rally was small in number and passed peacefullyA few days before the action, on April 26, the Prosecutor General's Office - such an organization cannot work in Russia, cooperation with it can be criminally punishable.
OR employees object that only Mikhail Khodorkovsky's organization "Open Russia", the Institute of Modern Russia of his son Pavel Khodorkovsky and the public network movement "Open Russia" can be considered undesirable by law. The decision of the prosecutor’s office cannot affect the Open Russia movement, Mikhail Khodorkovsky himself explained on Twitter, since it is Russian.
On Thursday to the Moscow office of Open Russia.
From Tula to Tyumen
According to reports from the “Fed up” rally from Russian regions, 30 people were detained in Tula - that’s almost everyone who came to the rally. In Kemerovo - 14 detainees.
Image caption Maria Baronova, coordinator of the Open Russia human rights project, is known for her ability to conduct public discussions with police officersAccording to Idel.Realiya, a member of the Open Russia branch, Daria Kulakova, and a participant in the action, Laysan Ismagilova, were detained in Kazan.
In Tyumen, on the way to the “Fed up” rally, event coordinator Anton Mikhalchuk was detained, reports the OVD-Info portal.
Open Russia reports that street loudspeakers and cleaning equipment interfere with the rally in Tomsk: they drown out the speakers.
HRC member Igor Borisov announced the day before that the actions had been coordinated in 30 regions of Russia.
On Saturday, April 29, a protest action “I'm fed up” took place throughout Russia. In Moscow, several hundred people took part in it, according to DW estimates.
Instead ofrally
The action was initiated by the opposition movement Open Russia (OR). Initially, the opposition planned to stage a protest rally near the president's reception in Moscow. However, the Moscow mayor's office did not approve it, inviting protesters to gather on Sakharov Avenue. Open Russia refused this platform. “The location proposed by the mayor’s office does not meet the goals of the organizers,” says a statement released by the OR. “The purpose of the event is to convey their demands to employees of the Presidential Administration.”
Therefore, it was decided to abandon the rally, but to jointly bring and submit letters to the reception office of the AP - in accordance with the law “On the procedure for considering appeals from citizens of the Russian Federation.” Each participant was free to determine the content of his letter to the president himself. But most of the appeals contained a request to Vladimir Putin not to run for another term.
“During this presidency, over the course of three terms, legal arbitrariness was committed, in particular in the penitentiary system. Violation of the rights of prisoners, all these acts of torture ...,” one of the participants in the action explained to DW. “His almost 18-year period in power is no longer normal,” says the head of Open Russia, Alexander Solovyov. “Even if we assume that Putin really doesn’t see for 18 years that the country is being plundered behind his back, that means for the next 6 Such a manager doesn’t have to go for years.”
Unexpectedtolerance
Opposition activists began gathering on Slavyanskaya Square near the monument to the heroes of Plevna even before the announced start of the action. By two o'clock in the afternoon it was already crowded on Ilyinka. The narrow sidewalks of the street were filled with people; police officers stood on both sides, preventing protesters from entering the roadway.
“Do not interfere with the passage of other citizens, go to the metro or towards Red Square,” the police said. Usually, at protests, after several such calls, arrests begin. But this time everything happened differently - law enforcement agencies really wanted to clear the passage. They installed fences at the administration building and lined up people at metal detectors. Bags were checked at the entrance. After the check, everyone entered the reception building, handed over their letters and received from the secretary a coupon with the number of the registered appeal.
Aftersearch
“The point of the action is to inform the president that sitting longer than Brezhnev is not very good in the 21st century,” said the coordinator of the Moscow action, Maria Baronova. “That I’m tired of Sobyanin, who is essentially carrying out a deportation program under the guise of renovation. I’m tired of eternal tiles, eternal construction, etc. that they are digging up Ilyinka..."
“I’m tired of poverty...” an elderly protest participant interrupted Baronova.
“I’m tired of poverty in the country,” agreed Baronova. “I’m tired of the fact that people are not heard at all, that there is no dialogue with the authorities...”
“I’m tired of the lack of normal work…” the elderly woman continued. “Shut up, they’re not interviewing you,” her friend interjected.
“Oh, it’s you! These are supposedly witnesses!” Baronova suddenly became distracted by two inconspicuous people in civilian clothes on the other side of the fence. “The day before yesterday they were witnesses during the search, and today they are counting the number of participants in the action! Would you like me to give you a counter?”
On Thursday, the office of Open Russia, which the day before had been declared an “undesirable organization,” was searched. “They took out 100,000 thousand leaflets, “Breathe Freely” candies, T-shirts, flags, for some reason they took away five personal laptops,” said Alexander Solovyov. “They twisted our employee’s arm to take away her phone. These people were in civilian clothes, they had no right to do all this. But our lawyers were not even allowed into the premises."
Notonlyopposition
It was not only oppositionists who stood in line at the reception. The DW correspondent also found Maria Katasonova, an activist of the pro-Kremlin NOD movement, there. She came to the presidential administration wearing a T-shirt with his portrait. “I also express my point of view, I express my support for the current president. We have freedom of speech,” Katasonova said. A supporter of Vladimir Putin’s politics decided to see “what kind of action this was, which was so actively promoted. But there are more journalists than participants! Maybe it’s not Putin who’s tired of it, but no one needs the opposition?”
Context
Shortly before the end of the action, these two attractive young women - Maria Baronova and Maria Katasonova - finally met. “Why do you have so few participants?” Katasonova asked. “The mayor’s office did not approve the action,” explained Baronova. “And there are not so few people here for an illegal action.” - “Why are you gathering people for an illegal rally?” - “This is the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the prosecutor’s office declared it illegal. But we ourselves are not doing anything illegal. It’s good that the Central Internal Affairs Directorate turned on its brain and did not interfere with us.”
According to Baronova, this is not their first meeting: “We have quite constructive relations with her,” she told DW. “We have met more than once, including the last time at Putin’s press conference. And we tease each other every time ".
The head of the Moscow branch of Open Russia is generally pleased with how the action at Ilyinka went. “I am grateful to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate that in the end it was decided not to disperse us. Indeed, these fences and a passage for standing in line were needed.” But, if in Moscow the action, according to Maria Baronova, was perceived by the authorities “quite constructively”, then this cannot be said about many other cities: “No one was detained at the uncoordinated action, but in St. Petersburg, where the organizers received permission from the mayor’s office , the action ended with 100 arrests."
For whatThisneed to
Of course, none of the participants expects that letters from citizens will become a serious reason for the president to think about refusing a fourth term. It is important for Open Russia activists that the action was, in essence, their first practical experience of street activism. “I expect an effect from citizens,” says Maria Baronova. “That they will unite, learn solidarity, learn to express their opinions. In addition, our experience in Moscow has shown that it is possible to organize a legally clean street protest.”
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The “Fed up” campaign, organized by the Open Russia (OR) movement, took place on Saturday, April 29, throughout the Russian Federation. According to Igor Borisov, a member of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), opposition events were coordinated in 30 Russian regions. In a number of other cities - in particular, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kemerovo - the authorities have not officially confirmed the routes of the procession and the sites chosen by activists. DW monitored the atmosphere in which the protest took place.
The most widespread arrests were in the Northern capital. There, more than 300 people gathered near the Gorkovskaya metro station to sign protest letters and take them to the representative office of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District. Soon the police were brought to the scene. Riot police officers surrounded those gathered and, according to eyewitnesses, began to “pull them out one by one.” As a result, over 60 people were detained - not only activists, but also observers. Among them, according to the testimony of the participants, is a 13-year-old girl, as well as a survivor of the siege, artist Elena Osipova.
Context
A DW correspondent in St. Petersburg managed to contact one of the detainees by phone, Open Russia coordinator Andrei Pivovarov. He said that he, as well as OR activists Natalya Gryaznevich, Nikolai Artemenko and Sergei Kuzin were taken to department No. 7 and other police departments. A plastic mailbox with letters to the main recipient of the “Fed up” campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin, was also loaded into the riot police bus.
“If appeals to the president of the country are accepted by riot police, this means that there is no connection between officials and ordinary citizens of Russia,” Pivovarov complained.
In Moscow, people lined up to call on Putin to resign
In the Russian capital, the opposition rally took place more calmly. Initially, Open Russia activists wanted to organize a procession from Slavyanskaya Square to the presidential administration on Ilyinka Street, but the authorities did not agree on this route, proposing instead to proceed from Slavyanskaya Square to Academician Sakharov Avenue. As a result, people began to spontaneously flock to the open reception building on Ilyinka.
Between the two barriers a live queue of people wishing to submit their appeals to the head of state formed. According to a DW correspondent, there were several hundred people gathered. The police behaved generally correctly, inviting everyone to submit their appeals and go home. Forms demanding that Vladimir Putin refuse to nominate his candidacy for the 2018 elections were submitted, in particular, by the coordinator of Open Russia and the organizer of the protest, Maria Baronova, as well as the new head of the OR, Alexander Solovyov. Chairman of the Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov was present at the site of the action as an observer. A few hours later the action ended without incident, and those gathered went home.
Eight year old child in a paddy wagon
There were some arrests in Kemerovo, Tula, Tyumen, Novokuznetsk, Izhevsk and some other cities. In Kemerovo, the action did not receive approval from the local administration. Even before the start of the event, one of its organizers, Dmitry Ulitin, was taken into custody; he was later released. In total, according to Open Russia, 14 people were detained. According to the public organization OVD-Info, an eight-year-old child, the grandson of one of the protesters, was in the paddy wagon. All detainees were brought to the court building; only one activist was left at the police department, who faces up to 10 days of arrest.
In Tula, almost all the participants of the action were in custody - about 30 people. In Tomsk, authorities turned on loudspeakers and drove away cleaning equipment to prevent protesters from speaking.
Observers attribute the wide range of reactions from law enforcement agencies in different Russian cities to the lack of centralized instructions from the Kremlin on how to act against activists. Thus, journalist Vladimir Varfolomeev, in particular, is convinced that there was “no single team” from the administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
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The first participants in the action began to appear around 14.00. They were dressed in yellow T-shirts with the inscription “I’m tired” or gray raglans, which depicted a caricature of a rocket with the inscription “I’m tired” and the President of the Russian Federation inside.
Activists gathered on Slavyanskaya Square in Moscow / UNIAN
In Moscow, only a few dozen people came to the “Fed up” rally demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin not run for office in 2018.
As our own correspondent in the Russian Federation reports, at Slavyanskaya Square in the center of Moscow, security measures were strengthened by 13.00, several dozen police vans and buses were parked. Dozens of journalists arrived to cover the event.
The first participants in the action began to appear around 14.00. They were dressed in yellow T-shirts with the inscription “I’m tired” or gray raglans, which depicted a caricature of a rocket with the inscription “I’m tired” and the President of the Russian Federation inside.
The police began to warn those gathered that the action had not been approved and suggested that they proceed to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation and leave their petitions.
In addition, by order of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a survey about the political system in the Russian Federation is being conducted at the site of the action.
Among other things, respondents are asked what exactly the candidate must offer in order for the participant to come to the polls. Among different answer options, it is proposed to choose the following: “Support the annexation of Crimea to Russia” and “Insist on rapprochement between the Russian Federation and the West.”
Sociologists do not allow public photography of the questionnaire.
At the moment, several dozen people, accompanied by even more journalists, went to the Russian Presidential Administration.
The action as a whole is proceeding calmly; mass arrests, despite the lack of coordination of the action, are not being carried out.
As UNIAN reported, today a socio-political network movement, created on the initiative of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is holding actions demanding that Russian President Vladimir Putin not run for office in 2018.
“Today at 14:00 (local time) citizens of Russia will bring letters to the presidential reception with official demands to Vladimir Putin not to stand as a candidate in the 2018 elections,” the organizers said in a statement.
The action should be held under the following slogans: #TIRED of living on beggarly wages and pensions, #TIRED of saving on food and clothing, #TIRED of enduring corruption and holding on, #TIRED of listening to lies on TV, #TIRED of driving on broken roads, #TIRED of walking in crumbling roads clinics, #TIRED of enduring the arbitrariness of judges and police, #TIRED of being afraid of everything, #TIRED of PUTIN, MEDVEDEV, KADYROV, YAROVAYA, KISELEV, POKLONSKAYA, SOBYANIN, VOROBYEV... this list can be continued endlessly.
At the same time, it is stated that the fat oil years enriched the president’s friends (Timchenko, Sechin, Rotenberg, etc.), and the rest of Russia remained, in almost all indicators, at the level of third world countries.
“We can not only say who we’re #tired of, but also drive out the swindlers and thieves from their homes!” - they say in “Open Russia”.
As Ekho Moskvy journalist Vladimir Varfolomeev reported on his Twitter, the building of the presidential reception, which today should be open for citizens until 16:30, was surrounded by fences, concrete blocks and patrols.
Reception room of the RF AP on Novaya Square. literally walled up. It is not a fact that any petitions will be transferred there.
In Moscow and other cities of Russia on Saturday, April 29, an unauthorized protest action “I'm fed up” is taking place, during which participants must bring letters addressed to Vladimir Putin to the local reception offices of the Presidential Administration with a request not to stand as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in 2018. elections.
In the capital, this action was not approved by the city authorities, although its organizers were “. Instead of this ".
Nevertheless, the action took place in several large cities of Russia, in some it was approved by local authorities, and several hundred people gathered there to take part in it. In other cities where the protest event was not approved, arrests took place - in Kemerovo, 14 people were detained. Several protest participants were detained in Kazan, and the organizer of the “Fed up” protest was detained in Tyumen.
The action is currently taking place in Moscow, where.
In the capital, according to an RBC correspondent, about 400 people are taking part in the action. They walked from Slavyanskaya Square to the Presidential Administration building, where police installed fences and metal detectors.
Before entering the reception area of the Presidential Administration, the protesters were searched, but everyone was allowed to submit an appeal to the President. The police did not make any arrests at the protests in Moscow.
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