The march for federalizing Siberia, planned for August 17th in the unofficial Siberian capital of Novosibirsk under the slogan “Enough feeding Moscow,” has been banned by the Novosibirsk city administration. The famous Moscow expert Andrei Piontkovsky in an interview to Radio Svoboda said that Moscow was very frightened by the scheduled march. “Draconian measures are being used. 17 Russian medias have received warnings, including such ones as the respectable Kommersant, the channel Dozhd and others. Thus, Russia took this initiative very seriously,” noted Piontkovsky. In response to the ban, the organizers have submitted a notice of another march to be held on August 17, entitled “For the inviolability of the constitutional system, in particular for the state’s compliance with the principle of federalism laid down in Article 1 and 5 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.” Apart from changing the the march’s name, they filed a statement to the prosecutor’s office on the criminal actions of Novosibirsk officials under Art. 149 of Russia’s Criminal Code (obstruction of a meeting, rally, procession).
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:20:37 +0000
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