ASTRAKHAN
PROTESTERS
CONDUCT PICKET AGAINST BUILDING CHURCH ON YABLOCHKOV STREET
Arbuz
Today, 17
September 2019
Opposition
politicians
of Astrakhan oblast are continuing a series of one-person
pickets
at a site of the possible construction of an Orthodox church
near the Stepan
Zdorovtsev boarding school on Yablochkov Street. "Yesterday we
were
praying for the salvation of children's souls from obscurantism
and demon
possession. People support us, in the main. This time drivers
honked at us as
they drove past," Mikhail Doliev, the chairman and executive
director of
the regional division of the Parnas Party in Astrakhan oblast,
writes in
summary.
We note
that this is
not, by far, the first such demonstration against building a
church on a part
of the territory of the Stepan Zdorovtsev boarding school.
Previously
representatives of opposition political forces also conducted
there several
one-person pickets, in order the call attention of the public to
this issue.
Several times, those who support the appearance of the church on
this territory
got into a fight with them.
Information
about
the possible construction of an Orthodox church on the territory
of the Stepan
Zdorovtsev boarding school was announced by a deputy of the
Astrakhan oblast
duma from the "A Just Russia" fraction, Alexander Kamanin, in
May of
this year.
"I tell
you
that this is not speculation. There are no documents but I know
for sure. I
have nothing against religion, but it is possible to find a site
on Yablochkov
without infringing upon the orphan children and to build that
church,"
Kamanin stated then in the course of discussion of deputies of
the regional
parliament with the acting head of the oblast at the time,
Sergei Morozov. Then
the Just Russian himself participated in the one-person pickets
at the proposed
site for building the religious facility. (tr. by PDS, posted 17
September
2019)
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