Initiators of a referendum on Okhta-Centre to appeal St.Petersburg
parliament’s ban on the referendum in court. This announcement
was made by Chair of St.Petersburg YABLOKO and one of organisers
of the referendum Maxim Reznik at the Ekho Moskvi radio
station.
“This time the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg demonstrated
absolute absence of any respect to the city dwellers saying
that the legislators can not give a definition what a historical
outlook of St.Petersburg is. But I am certain that shall
find counter-measures against another slap on the face as
regards the citizens,” Reznik said.
“After such a renown person as [writer] Daniil Granin supported
the referendum, such a decision shows not merely a lack
of respect to some impersonalized mass of people, as deputies
of St.Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly see the city dwellers,
it is absence of respect to those whom these deputies elect
honorary citizens,” he stressed. According to Reznik, the
YABLOKO party will spare no effort so that Okhta-Centre
would not spoil the historical outlook of St.Petersburg.
See also:
St.Petersburg
YABLOKO
Human
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