Protests against raising the retirement age are taking place across the country today. Our network of campaign offices alone organized them—or helped organize them—in 39 cities today.
Look how many people turned out.
Khabarovsk:
Komsomolsk-on-Amur. One of the largest rallies in the city’s history—around 1,500 people:
Omsk saw one of the biggest rallies today—around 4,000 people:
Tomsk. Another one of the largest protests here in recent years:
Chelyabinsk:
Irkutsk:
Murmansk:
Krasnodar:
The rally in Krasnodar went very well, but our coordinator, who was on his way there, was detained on the way out of Rostov-on-Don:
Saratov:
Penza:
Perm:
Orenburg:
In Orenburg, the city administration tried to move the protest to the other end of town, but our campaign office won in court twice (in the trial court and on appeal), and the march took place in the city center, exactly as originally announced.
And here is another city in Orenburg Region, Kuvandyk. The rally there was organized by a former member of our campaign office staff. The town is tiny, yet around 200 people came out—that’s 1% of the entire population.
Kuvandyk:
We are continuing our campaign against the pension reform. Join us and add your signature here: https://pensiya.org/.