A round table on Moscow urban issues took place in YABLOKO
Press release, 17.03.2016
On 16 March, a round table dedicated to the urban issues of Moscow took place in the YABLOKO office. Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Sergei Mitrokhin participated in the meeting.
Sergei Mitrokhin noted that YABLOKO had managed to become the platform to oppose the authorities and define the stance on all the issues of the urban life. Mitrokhin stressed that that was very important in the situation when there were no counterpoises left to the city authorities system.
“The main problem of today’s authority is the absence of control and subordination to the Muscovites. Today the Moscow City Duma, which had been working actively and had been representing the interests of the citizens since 1990s, was pushed aside form the urban issues almost completely. Moreover, local self-government as an institution was deprived of wide powers. Under such conditions, the voice of activists who take human rights defence upon themselves willingly is becoming more weighty,” Mitrokhin said.
First Deputy Chair of Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhaleva spoke about the work done by the local YABLOKO branch for the last few months. She stressed the necessity of both participation in the street actions of protest and conduction of round tables to discuss and analyse the urban problems and find the ways to solve them.
Posted: March 19th, 2016 under Environmental Policies.