Press Release, 11.03.2020

On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party will picket against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The pickets will be held on the day of the approval of Putin’s constitutional amendments by regional parliaments. Yabloko will picket the buildings of legislative assemblies and regional dumas in 47 regions:

(the list is subject to updating, the time is local)

Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly of Deputies, pl. Lenin, 1. Beginning at 11:00.

? Astrakhan, Duma of the Astrakhan Region, st. Volodarsky, 15. Beginning at 12:00.

?Barnaul, Altai Regional Legislative Assembly, ul. Anatolia, 81. Beginning at 10:00.

?Vladimir, Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Region, Oktyabrskiy Prospect, 21. Starting at 9:30.

?Vladivostok, Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Territory, ul. Svetlanskaya, 22. Beginning at 12:00.

?Volgograd, Volgograd Regional Duma, Lenin Ave. 9. Starting at 09:30.

?Vologda, Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Oblast, ul. Pushkinskaya, 25. Beginning at 09:00.

? Voronezh, Voronezh Regional Duma, ul. Kirova, 2. Beginning at 09:30.

?Gorno-Altaysk, State Assembly – El Kurultay of the Altai Republic, Erkemen Palkin St., 1. Start at 10:00.

?Yekaterinburg, Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk region, ul. B. Yeltsina, 10. Beginning at 10:00.

? Ivanovo, Ivanovo Regional Duma, ul. Baturina, 5. Beginning at 12:30.

? Irkutsk, Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region, ul. Lenina, 1a. Beginning at 9:30.

? Kazan, State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, Svobody Square, 1. Beginning at 09:00.

?Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Regional Duma, ul. Kirova, 17. Starting at 09:00.

?Kemerovo, Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region – Kuzbass, Prospect Sovetsky, 58. Beginning at 12:00.

?Kostroma, Kostroma Regional Duma, ul. Sovetskaya, 2. Time is being specified.

? Kurgan, Kurgan Regional Duma, ul. Gogolya, 56. Beginning at 10:00.

?Kursk, Kursk Regional Duma, ul. Sofya Perovskaya St., 24. Beginning at 10:30.

?Krasnoyarsk, Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Prospect Mira, 110. Beginning at 10:00.

?Krasnodar, Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, ul. Krasnaya, 3. Time will be announced.

?Moscow, Moscow City Duma, Strastnoy Boulevard, 15/29 and Assumption Lane, 14 p. 1. Starting at 11:00.

?Moscow, Moscow Regional Duma, Prospect Mira, 72. Beginning at 11:00.

?Nizhny Novgorod, Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Kremlin, bldg. 2. Beginning at 9:30.

?Novosibirsk, Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region, ul. Kirova, 3. Beginning at 09:00.

? Omsk, the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk region, ul. Krasniy Put’, 1. Time will be announced.

?Orel, Oryol Regional Council of People’s Deputies, Lenin Square, 1. Beginning at 9:30.

?Orenburg, Legislative Assembly of the Orenburg Region, House of Soviets. Beginning at 13:30.

?Penza, Legislative Assembly of the Penza Region, ul. Kirova, 13. Beginning at 10:00.

?Perm, Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, ul. Lenina, 51. Beginning at 9:00.

?Pskov, Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies, ul. Nekrasova, 23. Beginning at 08:30.

?Rostov-on-Don, Legislative Assembly of the Rostov region, st. Socialisticheskaya, 112. The beginning of the first series of pickets at 9:30, the second at 14:30.

? Ryazan, Ryazan Regional Duma, ul. Poschtovaya, 50. Beginning at 10:30.

?St. Petersburg, Legislative Assembly, St. Isaac’s Square, 6. Beginning at 9:00.

?Saratov, Saratov Regional Duma, ul. Radishcheva, 24A. Beginning at 13:30.

?Samara, Samara Provincial Duma, ul. Molodogvardeiskaya, 187. Beginning at 09:30.

?Smolensk, Smolensk Regional Duma, Lenin Square, 1. Beginning at 10:00.

?Syktyvkar, State Council of the Komi Republic, ul. Kommunisticheskaya 8. Beginning at 11:00.

?Tambov, Tambov Regional Duma, ul. Karla Marxa, 143/22. Beginning at 09:30.

?Tver, Legislative Assembly of the Tver region, st. Sovetskaya, 34. Beginning at 11:00.

?Tula, Tula Regional Duma, Lenin Prosepct, 2. Beginning at 11:30.

? Tyumen, Tyumen Regional Duma, ul. Respubliky, 52. Beginning at 10:00.

?Ulyanovsk, Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Region, ul. Radishcheva, 1. Beginning at 10:00.

?Ufa, State Assembly – Kurultay of the Republic of Bashkortostan, st. Zaki Validi, 46. Beginning at 08:30.

? Cheboksary, State Council of the Chuvash Republic, Presidentskiy Boulevard, 10. Starting at 09:30.

? Chelyabinsk, Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region, ul. Kirova, 114. Beginning at 9:00.

?Elista, People’s Khural (Parliament) of the Republic of Kalmykia, ul. A.S. Pushkina, 18. Time is being specified.

?Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Regional Duma, Soviet Square, 1/19. Beginning at 10:00.

Yabloko calls on all concerned citizens to join the pickets. If you did not find your city on the list, you can download one of our posters, print it out and go to the legislative assembly of your region.

On March 11, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent all the State Duma deputies and members of the Federation Council a 36 pages long legal opinion by the Yabloko Centre for Legislative Initiatives, which proves that there were a number of gross violations in the process of amending the Basic Law.

“The numerous legal and ideological contradictions that are contained in the current draft law not only undermine the spirit and violate the logic of the current Constitution, but also become a time bomb for the constitutional foundations of our state,” the letter to the document runs.

Leaders and activists of Yabloko went on pickets to the State Duma on March 10 and 11, when the lower house of the Russian parliament was considering the bill on amendments in the second and the third reading. On March 11, pickets were held by the Federation Council.