United Citizens Front

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March of the Dissatisfied in Saint Petersburg , March 2007

The United Citizens Front ( Russian Объединённый гражда́нский фронт, ОГФ ) is a liberal political organization in Russia led by the chess grandmaster and opposition politician Garry Kasparov .

It was established in June 2005 and officially registered by the Russian Ministry of Justice in November 2006 . In the United Citizens' Front Manifesto, it names the fight against President Vladimir Putin's political system , corruption and bureaucracy, and the safeguarding of free elections and an independent judiciary as its primary goals. She also advocates a peaceful end to the Chechnya conflict . The United Citizens Front is a co-organizer of the so-called marches of the discontented , which are held in larger cities in Russia, and is involved in the opposition alliance The Other Russia .

Incidents

On December 10, 2006, Kasparow was unloaded from the ARD broadcast Sabine Christiansen . Two days later, on December 12, the Moscow office of the Citizens Front was searched and books and newspapers were confiscated by the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB and officers of a police unit against organized crime. A March of the Dissatisfied, planned for December 16, was canceled by the authorities. A rally approved for 3,000 demonstrators on Triumph Square (the starting point for the actual march) was faced with 8,500 police officers.

Viktor Gerashchenko , a member of the Yukos supervisory board and former head of the Soviet and Russian central banks , expressed his willingness to campaign in the 2008 Russian presidential elections as a candidate for the citizens' front .

On July 28, 2007, the United Citizens Front announced that opposition journalist Larissa Arap had been detained in a closed psychiatric institution in Murmansk since July 6, 2007 . The journalist was then released from the institution after a six-week forced stay.

Remarks

  1. ^ Sabine Christiansen Moskauer Technik , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 12, 2006
  2. ^ Moscow prohibits dissident march , the daily newspaper, December 14, 2006
  3. ^ Protest against Putin; 3,000 demonstrators follow a call by chess player Garri Kasparow , Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 18, 2006
  4. ↑ Protests for a Russia without Putin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , N24, December 16, 2006@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.n24.de  
  5. ↑ “Russia Needs a Change of Power” , Die Welt, June 19, 2007
  6. ^ Opposition members released from psychiatry , Tagesspiegel, August 20, 2007

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