Message to send to Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russian Federation
Object: To put an end to the arbitrary reign in Astrakhan, support citizen structures, organize new, free and democratic elections
Dear Mr. President :
We indignantly heard about the mass frauds which marked the local elections in Russia on October 11, 2009. Especially in the city of Astrakhan where a real criminal coup took place, observers and protestors, as well as journalists were attacked by hoodlums without the police doing anything to enforce the law. Voting supervision became impossible from the intervention of criminal structures, which produced illegitimate results of the elections.
As activists for the cause of housing, policy makers and responsible citizens around the world, we know the struggle that has led social movements for years in Astrakhan. We know that in this city exists a very important Inhabitants Union (Soïuz Zhitelej) that brings together property and district committees in the name of self-management and advocacy of the housing cause. As these inhabitants participated in the electoral campaign on the side of the so-called defeated candidate Oleg Shein, we fear for their safety, for the future of these inhabitants committees that the outgoing mayor, Sergey Bozhenov, could attempt to close.
Mr. President, we ask you to assure their safety and to put an end to the arbitrary reign in Astrakhan. If you try to develop democracy in Russia, you must support citizen structures, associations and inhabitant movements which in Astrakhan demonstrated their capacity of mobilization and will to take charge of their destiny. We ask you, Mr. President, to organize new, free and democratic elections.
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Oleg Shein : shein72@mail.ru