On
August 5, the police interfered with collection of signatures
by the YABLOKO party by Tushinskaya metro station. This time
collection of signatures was organized by four groups of businessmen.
The police asked the collectors to take off all YABLOKO’s
flags and coats with party symbols. They also asked YABLOKO’s
activists to show an allowance from the local authority, however,
such an allowance is redundant for election campaigns. In
spite of this YABLOKO had informed the local authority of
the North-Western district of Moscow of such collection.
The businessmen managed to explain the legal nature of their
actions to the police and continue collection of signatures,
however, the police demanded that they should stop using a
megaphone. This made collection of signatures very difficult
as due to high noise in the street.
See also:
Elections
to the Moscow City Duma, 2009
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