The reason for the ban shares, an application for which was served Vitebsk members of the CCP BPF, traditional. Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee Vitebsk Dmitry Sherikov banned street march, citing a lack of applicants contracts for its maintenance of community services, doctors and police officers.

According to Jan Derzhavtsev, one of the applicants banned processions, power dozens of times did not give him and his party permissions for shares is based on the absence of such agreements. As a rule, opposition agree to service activities only the utility, the police and the same clinic always find some reason to avoid contracting.

This time everything happened as usual. Organizers of the march sent a statement to conclude contracts in the required instance - and were refused.

Chief physician Vitebsk city center clinic Stanislav Titovich reported that health care events carried brigades city ambulance station in the absence of a large number of calls, "an authentic period there is a high turnover of the population" (literal translation from the original language of the document), so in advance to coordinate activities ambulances at the date of the alleged events can’t - thus the conclusion of the contract is not possible.

A response was received from the police. Deputy Chief of police Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Yuri Mankov wrote that his office allegedly not against the contract, but only after the City Council will give permission for the march. In fact, it is a failure: according to the decision of Vitebsk city executive committee "On mass events in Vitebsk", adopted in 2009, the organizers of the shares must make the necessary agreements before, and not after obtaining permission to public events; without such contracts concluded in advance, event is not permitted.

For nearly six years since the adoption of the decision, which regulates the conduct of public events in Vitebsk, community and political activists never been able to fulfill the requirements of this decision, and the government never gave permission to hold pickets, rallies or marches .

Activists tried to change the situation through the courts, demanding to cancel or change an impossible solution, but all their efforts were unsuccessful. According to the judges, the decision of the Vitebsk City Council passed legal examination, found not to violate the law, and therefore there is no need to change something.

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