| Activists of the Youth YABLOKO organisation of St.Petersburg
conducted an action to commemorate five years since abolishing
of gubernatorial elections in Russia, writes Zaks.ru correspondent.
Activists wearing masks of governors Valentina
Matvienko, Yuri Luzhkov, Valery Serdyukov, President of Chechnya
Ramzan Kadyrov and a mask of “Vladimir Medvedev” (a photoshop
merging Vladimir Putin and Dmrity Medvedev) showed a theatrical
performance.
During the theatrical performance the “Governors”
obeyed every whim of the President, blew off particles of
dust from his clothes, served him drinks and jollied along.
The performance took place on a large sheet of paper with
inscription “The People”. Thus the activists wanted to demonstrate
that abolishing of gubernatorial elections led to a situation
when heads of regions are busy singing praises to their boss
rather than taking care of the people. In addition YABLOKO’s
activists held a large placard with quotations from Vladimir
Putin and a statement that Putin used the Beslan school tragedy
so that to abolish gubernatorial elections. The police who
copied the inscriptions of the placards watched the action,
however. Did not interfere.
Leonid Kurza, ex-leader of the Nashi (Our) movement in St.Petersburg
and his colleagues also came to watch the action.
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