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Petition against the Construction of the Okhta Center Tower (Saint Petersburg)
We, the undersigned, would like to express our opposition to the planned construction of the 396-meter-tall Okhta Center skyscraper in Saint Petersburg.
We believe that construction cannot be allowed to go ahead. Erecting a building of this height would irreversibly ruin the Petersburg cityscape, which is [...]
Line in front of the business-centre “Karelia”, where the the public hearing over the planed “Gazprom city” took place
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The pubic hearing on “Gazprom city” in St. Petersburg was scheduled on Sept. 1st, the traditional begining of the russian school year. But neither this important day for Russian [...]
The chain of assaults doesn’t break off: after the assaults on Carine Clement and other activists three months ago, two activists were murdered on Monday in the streets of Moscow. It would be too simple to accuse the Russian state of murder, but what is definitely lacking in Russia is protection. So civil society looses [...]
To show their solidarity with the housing-movements in Marseille, diverse housing initiatives in St. Petersburg together with the “Movement of Civil Initiatives” planed a small rally, which should form the ceremonial framework for handing over an open letter to the french president at the french consulate in St. Petersburg. An official request to carry out [...]
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11 am, 13 November. Attack against Carine Clément, sociologist, director of the Institute of Collective Action, member of the Union of Coordinating Councils of Russia (SKS), and an activist committed to the struggle for housing rights. On her way to a public meeting of leftist movements, two young men stuck a syringe in [...]
October 25 about 200 people gathered in front of the Finnish Station in St. Petersburg to protest against the neoliberal policies and “reforms” of the government. Mostly communist groups, but also liberals and housing activists called for the right to strike and living pensions, but above all for housing rights and the protection of small [...]