“We, the municipal councilors of Russia, consider the actions of President Vladimir Putin to be damaging to the future of Russia and its citizens,” the appeal reads.
Municipal councilors of 18 districts of Moscow and St. Petersburg they called him Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign. The appeal was published by the municipal councilor of the Semyonovsky district of St. Petersburg, Ksenia Tortsyom.
“We, the municipal councilors of Russia, consider that the actions of President Vladimir Putin harm the future of Russia and its citizens,” the appeal states.
Last week, the city council of Smolninskoye in St. Petersburg had by its decision asked the deputies of the State Duma (lower house) to charge Russian President Vladimir Putin with high treason for declaring war against Ukraine and as therefore to be removed from his duties. Seven municipal councilors voted in favor, while three abstained.
The following day, September 9, the councilors who signed the petition were called to the police station, where they were prosecuted for “defaming” the Russian army.
On the same day, September 9, on the official website of the city council of the Lomonosov district of Moscow, an appeal of the city councilors to President Putin asking him to resign was published. In their appeal, the municipal councilors stated that for the well-being of the country, the power must change and pointed out that after the second term of the Russian president “everything went backwards”.
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