Today is the first day when, by law, notices can be submitted to the authorities about our anti-corruption rallies on June 12.
At exactly 8 a.m., the Moscow City Hall was notified of the following:
The process has begun in other cities as well. In some places, people had been waiting since the night for their city administrations to open so they could be the first to file an application.
Tomsk:
Voronezh is beautiful in the rays of dawn:
Samara:
Cheboksary:
Kaluga:
In many regions, the authorities have predictably started resorting to their usual petty tricks. When city hall offices open, they find members of the Young Guard of United Russia (the youth wing of the ruling party) who have filed applications for literally every square in the city.
In Barnaul, the crook governor, known for his fanatical obstinacy, sent actual thugs to threaten those filing the application (the thugs were told where to go).
In Novosibirsk, everyone suddenly went off to a meeting:
None of this should throw us off. On March 26, we showed everyone that we can bring out more people than anyone else. Even without money, and even for “unauthorized” rallies, more people turn out with us than the authorities can gather by forcing state employees to attend.
So let’s calmly file our application, insist on priority, and if they refuse to uphold our constitutional rights, then we act within the law: we go anyway. This is our country, and on Russia Day (a national holiday celebrated on June 12) we have the right to take to the streets under Russian flags.
A sample application and all the necessary legal instructions are available here.
As of now, initiative groups in 212 cities across the country have announced their participation in the June 12 rally.
Join us. If we sit at home, they’ll steal absolutely everything.