Pickets against the law raising
fines for rallies has taken place by the Federation Council
Press Release
June 6, 2012
According to YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin, the amendments
into the law on rallies and the Administrative Offences Code
adopted yesterday by the State Duma and proved by the upper
chamber of the parliament the Federation Council today
are installing dictatorship in the country. Mitrokhin has
made such a statement today by the Federation Council. Today
YABLOKO has conducted a series of one-person pickets (that
do not require a permission from the authorities) against
the adoption of the such amendments.
Activists of the Youth YABLOKO, Sergei Sokolov, municipal
deputy from the YABLOKO party, and Sergei Mitrokhin stood
in turn by the main entrance to the Federation Council with
a placard The law on rallies is a way towards a fascist state!
The placard also pictured portraits of Adolf Hitler, Benito
Mussolini, Heinrich Himmler, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenty Beria
and Vladimir Putin approving the new law. Fascists are for
it! KGB people are for it! ran the placard.
"Today the government has signed a verdict for itself,"
said Mitrokhin. "If the protest can not be expressed
by peaceful and legal means, then it will find a way out through
other means, he said. Mitrokhin also drew historical parallels
with 1905 when the tougher was the government towards the
society, the more radical were the actions by the opposition,
to the extent that they took up arms. "This is a situation
of a boiler which is sealed and is on fire," said Mitrokhin.
Sergei Mitrokhin also invited all the people to participate
in YABLOKOs second protest action in the Alexander Gardens
by the Kremlin walls that will begin at 19:00. YABLOKO activists
and ordinary citizens will gather there so that to appeal
to President Putin who has to sign the bill after which it
will become a law.
The action in the Alexander Gardens will take place without
any political symbols and placards, so yet it does not require
approvals from the authorities.
