Yabloko is picketing against Vladimir Putin’s lifelong rule in more than 50 Russian regions
Press Release, 12.03.2020
Photo: Alexander Gontcharenko picketing the Altai Territory Legislative Assembly in Barnaul
On Thursday, March 12, members of the Yabloko party are conducting one-person pickets (that do not require any permission from the authorities) against the reset of the presidential term of Vladimir Putin and other constitutional amendments introduced by the President. The pickets are held on the day of the approval of Putin’s constitutional amendments by regional parliaments. Yabloko conducts one-person pickets by the buildings of legislative assemblies and regional dumas in more than 50 regions. In Yekaterinburg, Sergei Khorenzhenko, Chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of Yabloko, was detained at a picket by the police despite that fact that it was one-person picket that did not require a permission from the authorities.
Deputies from Yabloko vote against Putin’s amendments to the Basic Law. Voting has already taken place in the Pskov region, St. Petersburg, Karelia and the Khabarovsk Territory. In Pskov, Khabarovsk and Petrozavodsk, Yabloko deputies were the only regional MPs who voted against the amendments.
Please see the photos from the pickets here.
(the list is subject to updating)
Posted: March 12th, 2020 under Constitutional Amendments, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.