St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly to consider YABLOKO’s draft decree on a referendum against naming a bridge after former Chechen President
Press release, 01.12.2016
On Friday, December 2, the committee on legislation of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly will consider YABLOKO’s draft decree on a referendum against the decision to name the bridge across the Duderhof canal after Akhmad Kadyrov, former Chechen President.
Earlier the initiative group founded by the YABLOKO party appealed to the Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg to initiate a referendum against naming one of the city’s bridges after Akhmad Kadyrov, first President of the Chechen Republic, which was done by the regional government despite loud public protests. Renowned film director Alexander Sokurov, deputy of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky and ex-deputy Alexander Kobrinsky, YABLOKO Deputy Chair Nikolai Rybalov, Chair of St.Petersburg YABLOKO Mikhail Amosov and other politicians joined the initiative group.
“Akhmad Kadyrov has nothing to do with the history or culture of St.Petersburg. Moreover, the name of Akhmad Kadyrov is associated not only with the death of thousands of Russian citizens during the Chechen war but with the totalitarian regime established in the Republic of Chechnya,” runs the party statement.
Posted: December 2nd, 2016 under Human Rights, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly.