Krasnodar authorities have refused to approve a rally in the Yubileiny microdistrict for the third time.

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Krasnodar City Hall proposed that opponents of the green zone development on the embankment in the Yubileyny microdistrict hold their protest outside the city, citing the fact that an event would already be held at the requested site.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel," activists from the Yubileyny microdistrict submitted an application to the administration for a rally against the green zone development on October 18, but they were only permitted to protest in Klenovy Park, which is located ten kilometers from the microdistrict. The authorities also refused to approve the rally for October 26. Krasnodar authorities rejected all residents' objections to the development of Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment, but took into account the messages from supporters of the church construction.

The Krasnodar mayor's office has denied permission for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Krasnodar residents to hold rallies for the third time. Vitaly Cherkasov, an activist and former Communist Party candidate for the Krasnodar City Duma, reported this on his Telegram channel on October 28.

According to him, every time a protest is denied in places where residents urgently need to be heard—in the Yubileyny microdistrict and on Geroev Razvedchikov Street—city officials report that "these locations are allegedly already occupied by other public events at the stated time."

Cherkasov believes that in this way, city authorities are preventing residents from exercising their constitutional right to freedom of assembly, "do not want to listen to residents and build a dialogue with citizens."

The "KPRF in Kuban" Telegram channel published two responses to requests for rallies on November 9, signed by A. Izmerov, Director of the Department of Internal Policy of the Krasnodar Administration. The event that party representatives wanted to hold in the Yubileyny microdistrict The authorities proposed holding the event on the site of the Alley of the 80th Anniversary of the Formation of the Krasnodar Krai on the grounds of the 1st Branch of the Kuban Training Farm, in Klenovy Square. According to Yandex.Maps, the distance between these two locations is more than eight kilometers in a straight line.

The authorities proposed moving the event, which the Communist Party of the Russian Federation representatives wanted to hold on Geroev Razvedchikov Street, to Leo Tolstoy Square. According to Yandex.Maps, the distance between these two locations is more than eight kilometers in a straight line.

On October 28, a resident of the Yubileyny microdistrict of Krasnodar held a protest asking not to build a church in the alley, 93.ru reports.

According to the protester, in 2019, the governor of Krasnodar Krai promised to build an alley to the Turgenev Bridge with a pedestrian zone, a bike path, and various recreational facilities. "Now the concept has changed. They want to build a church. I'm categorically against it. 165 million rubles were spent on the first phase of the alley. So, now we have to throw this money down the drain. The question is, why? Explain the need for this. The next point is that there's a large church in YMR, a chapel nearby, and there are plenty of these facilities. "Moreover, there is a chapel on the grounds of the agricultural institute, and a church is being built nearby," she said.