In Krasnodar, farmer detained for picket in front of presidential motorcade

Today, participants of a "tractor march" have organized a picket in Krasnodar where Vladimir Putin arrived. Sergey Plyonkin, one of the activists, was detained after he unfolded a poster in the street when the presidential motorcade was passing by.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported on August 21, 2016, the protesting farmers held a rally and began their so-called “tractor march” to Moscow, but law enforcers interfered, stopped the action and punished the participants with administrative arrests and fines. After their disrupted "tractor march" and a failed attempt to meet President Vladimir Putin, farmers have repeatedly stated the authorities' attempts to suppress the protest movement in the Krasnodar Territory.

The today's picket arranged by the activists of the farm movement in Krasnodar has been reported by Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the movement "Polite farmers".

"Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin arrived to Krasnodar, and the participants of the 'tractor march' held a picket with demands to cope with lawlessness in the KrasnodarTerritory!! The police disperse all the farmers," Alexei Volchenko wrote on his Facebook page.

His friend reported via mobile phone on the detention of Sergey Plyonkin during his solo picket, the "OVD-Info" reports.

"They have detained the first farmer Sergey Victorovich Plyonkin, a participant of the 'tractor march', for his solo picket!! He has managed to unfold a poster when the presidential motorcade was passing by," wrote user Elena Piter in the group "Association of Russian Carriers" in the Facebook.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.