We have informed that today in various cities around the world and all large cities of Russia, as outside the Russian embassy in Armenia a group of young people organized yet another protest against rigging the Russian State Duma election results with “Where is my vote?”, “No to falsification” posters.
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Today thousands of people gathered in Moscow and Saint Petersburg to organize protests against the results of the Russian State Duma election results. The Police of Moscow stated that more than 20 thousand people were participating in the rally on Academician Sakharov Avenue, whereas Aleksander Rikin, a representative of the “Solidarnost” (solidarity) Movement, stated that 40 thousand people were participating in the rally. Russian mass media inform about gathering police officers in the vicinity of Academician Sakharov Avenue.
Unlike Russian, in Armenia the rally participants’ number was less than ten, police officers and journalists prevailed.
This time the officers of the National Security Service (NSS) and police of the Republic of Armenia defending the embassy, were forbidding the ten young people to come from the Yerevan City Hall and gather outside the embassy. The latter held their protest a little farther, at the corner of Zakyan Street.
The young people staged the Russian election, as a performance – an old phone booth was used as a voting booth and a trash can as a ballot box. They also showed how the Russian State Duma election was rigged – perceive alternative parties as invalid and the “Only” valid.
“The initiative was a Facebook one, there was no organization, we just wanted to show solidarity with the Russian opposition and remind our people in a way that we have the same elections and fraud in our country”, said protest participant Anton Ivchenko.
“If a hundred thousand people take to the streets to show that they do not agree with the election results, it means that something is wrong”, said Daniel Danielyan, saying it was not important, whom a man voted for, it was important that his vote had not been counted.
“If this doesn’t end by a change of power or a revolution or a substantial democratization of Russia, in any case the Russian authorities will clearly understand that total impunity is over. The ‘bespredel’ (lack of any restraint) is restrained”, said picket participant Daniel Ionnisyan during a conversation with us.
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Lusine KHACHATRYAN
