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Yuri Samsonov about criminal actions of the head of the Klin district (Moscow Region) and non-registration of YABLOKO at the municipal election

Press Release
September 3, 2009

Press-conference “On the criminal and political situation in the Moscow Region” took place in the Independent Press Centre on September 3. Yuri Samsonov, leader of the YABLOKO election list in Klin told the journalists about unlawful actions of local administration headed by Alexander Postrigan who has been heading the district for 17 years already. According to Samsonov, Postrigan has managed to try all the top posts (sometimes he even held several posts at once) for these years.

Samsonov also quoted the head of the Klin district saying that “no one will dare to do anything in the district without his personal permission”. According to Samsonov’s data, all the key lands and property belong to Pstrigan and his family.


“Virtually no independent media or deputies can freely enter the administration building. For example, on August 21 we tried to submit YABLOKO’s lists of candidates for all the municipal entities of the district, but representatives of the administration simply closed the doors seeing us approaching, they virtually erected barricades and “were holding the fort” together with policemen who came to help them,” Samsonov said.

Samsonov also stated that local administration could not submit their lists for three days. Also other formal obstacles were created specially for the YABLOKO and the Patriots of Russia parties who dared to propose candidates oppositional to the present administration.


See the video (in Russian)

See also:
Regional and Municipal elections, 2009

 

Press Release

September 3, 2009