RESOLUTION EXPLAINS VLADIVOSTOK DEMONSTRATION AND DEMANDS

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 VLADIVOSTOK 000037 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV ECON RS SUBJECT: RESOLUTION EXPLAINS VLADIVOSTOK DEMONSTRATION AND DEMANDS RESIGNATIONS VLADIVOSTO 00000037 001.2 OF 002 ¶1. (U) Summary and comment: Post has informally translated highlights of the joint resolution by members of the Intiative Citizens of Russia Organization, "TIGR" and the Primorye Branch of the Communist Party of Russia that was made public at the March 15 demonstration in Vladivostok. Comment: It is likely that TIGR is driving the economic points and the Communists the political points. This is a marriage of convenience. Despite the anti-Western tone, TIGR wants more integration with the West and a more liberalized trade regime. The group was formed to protest high tarrifs that are cutting off imports of foreign cars, a source of livlihood for many Far Easterners. The communists have more resources and organization experience but they are able to benefit from TIGR's more relevent message and ability to attract younger people to anti-government rallies. To make sense of this union in political terms would require some sort of material dialect reasoning that only a communist could understand. The resolution calls for a return to direct election for Governors, a stronger safety net for the elderly and unemployed and it ends with a call for the resignation of Prime Minister Putin and Primorye Governor Darkin. End summary and comment. ¶2. (U) Begin Resolution Highlights: According to statistical data, all sectors of the Primorye economy are faced with a reduction of economic activity. Primorye ore and timber processing industries are in collapse. Port turnover has declined by 30-50%. Migration out of Primorye is a warning signal, as 30,000 people have left Primorye. The general demographic situation is worse than in other Russian regions. Federal measures for customs fee increases for foreign cars has had a negative impact on the social-economic climate in Primorye. We foresee that only changes of the federal economic course and industrial modernization in Primorye may improve the situation. Demands for the President and Russian Government: Protest meeting participants demand a change from the current anti-public regime to a Russian national interest protection regime, a regime of patriots, expressing public will. Participants demand changing the false western democracy regime, anti-public democracy for rich people, bandits and bureaucrats, to a public power regime of justice, freedom and prosperity. We are not slaves. We do not want to play a raw-exports only role for the West. We do not want sexual maniacs, narco-dealers nearby our kids, the death of Russian villages, explosions in our residences, and dangerous old airplanes." Supporting a soccer team in England, Keeseville ski resorts, and vacations in the Bahamas for the rich is a price too high for the Russian nation. We demand to answer to the question where is the money of the Stabilization/Reserve Fund and National Prosperity Fund? We demand a reply about growing falsifications and violations during elections. We demand a thorough inspection of the elections on March 1, 2009 elections. We demand a financial audit of the Yedinaya Rossia Party. We demand cancellation of the monetization of privileges for retired people and veterans and to let them live calmly till the end their lives. We demand a return to justice for minimum wages payments. Demands for the Primorye Kray Administration and the Primorye Legislative Assembly: We demand to limit housing monthly payments to ten percent of a month family income as it was during Soviet times. We demand to know why transportation, energy, heating, and utility tariffs increase while oil prices go down dramatically. We demand restoration of jobs for all people fired in the framework of "anti-crisis measures". We demand payment of all delayed wages, accumulated by the end of 2008. We support demands for justice from the TIGR public movement, such as: a reduction of utility tariffs and oil products; protection of the Russian Constitution against changes; salary increases for budget sphere employees: teachers, doctors, librarians,and not for state service authorities. We demand pension increases for retired people, real freedom of voice, cancellation of limitations for public meetings and demonstrations; an end to anti-public changes in the Criminal Code of Russia; reduction of customs tariffs for all types of goods, full implementation of a termless moratorium for the use of right hand cars; a reduction of the bureaucracy; efficient anti-corruption measures; a return to "Against All Candidates" in voting ballots; a return to the direct election of Governors; and end to the destruction of Army reform; and a right to recall deputies, governors and mayors. We demand the resignation of Prime Minister Putin and Primorye VLADIVOSTO 00000037 002.2 OF 002 Governor Darkin. ARMBRUSTER