Paul Goble
Staunton, June 10 – The long-haul
drivers’ strike against the Plato fee system has been playing “a significant
role” in the growth of protest attitudes among Muscovites, adding to their
anger about the city’s renovation plans and about the corruption highlighted by
Aleksey Navalny’s film, according to Oleg Ivanov.
Ivanov, head of the Center for Resolution of Social Conflicts, said that Muscovite anger had
increased primarily because of the city government’s plans to tear down the
five-storey khrushchoby apartment blocks but that the drivers’ strike and the
Navalny film made the city’s residents more ready to take to the streets (niros.ru/obschestvo/95446-v-moskve-nablyudaetsya-vysokiy-uroven-protestnyh-nastroeniy.html).
Meanwhile, the drivers suffered a
setback in Tatarstan. There, a committee of the republic’s State Council
refused to take up a draft measure calling for the cancellation of the Plato
system. Its advocate, Artem Prokofyev,
argued that the Council should act because the people and business wanted them
to. But the committee chair refused to hold a hearing on it (prokazan.ru/news/view/118212).
That may not be the end of the story
in Kazan, however. The chairman told Prokofyev that he could rework his
proposal and submit it again.
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