A rally that will be held with YABLOKO’s support in Tuchkovo,
the Moscow region, on Saturday, April 10, will demand resignation
of the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov and will
ask the President to install order and lawfulness in the
region.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin and deputy head of the
Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO Dmitry Ilyushin will participate
in the rally.
For three years the Moscow Region has been deep in debt
and ex Finance Minister of the region has been under criminal
investigation, YABLOKO notes. Bureaucrats from the United
Russia party has been pressing small and medium businesses,
and business has been leaving the region and the number
of unemployed has been steadily growing.
Housing and utilities sector has been falling to pieces
while tariffs on housing and utilities skyrocketed.
The region saw mass-scale election fraud in favour of United
Russia. Also lobbying of abolishing of elections of municipal
heads has been in progress.
In Tuchkovo municipal head Vitaly Ustimenko who was in
opposition to Gromov was killed in December 2009. Elections
of a new head were conducted in the situation of tough pressures
on behalf of local administration – all of them United Russia
members. Consequently, the election has not been recognised
valid, as the residents of the area voted for oppositional
Viktor Alksnis.
YABLOKO also learned about the plans to abolish direct
elections of the municipal head of Tuchkovo. In addition
housing and utilities sector of Tuchkovo was virtually transferred
to OAO Zhilservis and administration plans to sell all the
utilities infrastructure of the areas to a Cyprus offshore
EFRESIUM HOLDINGS LIMITED for RUR 185 mln (while the real
market price of the assets is several times more).
Industrial production fell: virtually all the enterprises
of the construction sector were closed, confectionery plant
Nestle Russia is about to close while unemployment has been
growing.
The rally will begin at 3 p.m.
See also:
Regional
and Municipal Elections, 2010
Housing
and Utilities Reform
