May Day in Simferopol was guarded by self-defense with dogs
The second May Day in Russian Simferopol was just as popular and fun as in previous years, but it was not without unusual innovations.
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Thus, for the first time in many years, citizens were unable to move along the roadway of Kirov Avenue, which was surrounded by fences, including near the traditional May Day gathering place for officials and deputies who were waiting for “himself” - the prime minister of the republic - before the columns began to pass. There was also no familiar column of bikers with Crimean flags on Samokisha Street. In addition, self-defense patrols appeared with black armbands and shepherd dogs on leashes. However, it was possible to get to the place where the columns were formed simply through the entrances guarded by the police - without the metal detector frames announced by the head of the city administration Gennady Bakharev.
Tens of thousands of Simferopol residents took to the streets.
People - both old and young - put on St. George's ribbons en masse, the streets were buried in the colors of the Russian tricolor and the Crimean flag. State flags of the Russian Federation were sold by a couple of older men in Trenev Park - and the demonstrators bought them. Some eccentrics, paying tribute to Spring and Labor Day, came out with posters promising the victory of productive labor, paid up to “from 25 to 400 USD.” in a day". On Kirov Avenue, the Crimean Tatar guys marched with national flags, and DPR flags were also visible here.
At the beginning of the procession, activists unfurled a huge flag of the Republic of Crimea in front of the State Council column. On Lenin Square, the demonstrators were greeted by the Speaker of the State Council Vladimir Konstantinov and the Prosecutor of the Republic of Kazakhstan Natalya Polonskaya. Instead of the Crimean governor Sergei Aksenov, the executive power of the region was represented at the festival by his first deputy, Mikhail Sheremet.
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