Who “congratulated” Putin’s anniversary and how |
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reynsalu expressed his hope that Putin will celebrate his next birthday behind bars
Active in Samara, Russia Vladimir Avdonin the president Vladimir Putinwent on a one-man picket on the same day as his anniversary.
On the placard in his hand “Putin is a villain” was written.
Vladimir Putin turned 70 on October 7.
The Russian service of RFE/RL writes that Avdonin was holding a picket at one of the busiest intersections in the city.
He stopped at that crossroads for half an hour. The activist has been “congratulating” the head of state on his birthday for several years now.
He was repeatedly searched and fined for these congratulations, but this time for some reason they did not touch him.
Police arrested one person in Meleuz city of Bashkortostan. The placard in his hand read “Putin, this is your last anniversary.”
Activists abroad too Russia congratulated the president in a unique way. In Batumi, they “gave” him a one-way plane ticket to The Hague.
The International Criminal Court is located in this city.
Today in St. Petersburg school they brought their students and university students to Saray square.
Here they are arranged in the form of the sentence “Putin is my president”. Members of the live greeting “Name of the day happy!” they chanted.
In the center of Makhachkala, a “support for the president’s course” action was held.
Employees of budget organizations and schoolchildren were brought to this event.
Administration employees of each district, Makhachkala, Kaspiysk and Buynaksk cities in action labour collectives also participated.
Action some of the participants told the reporter of RFE/RL that they were given T-shirts with Putin’s picture and tricolor flags at their workplaces.
An official event was held in Grozny, the central city of Chechnya, on the occasion of the president’s anniversary.
As a gift to Putin, an Olympic preparation center for judo was opened here. The center was named after the president.
In the CIS region
Putin himself spent his birthday at an informal meeting of CIS leaders in St. Petersburg.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko He gave Putin a tractor certificate as a gift.