The Moscow City Hall refused to coordinate the rally of the wives mobilized under the pretext of the “epidemiological situation.” This was reported in the “Way Home” telegram channel, the authors of which advocate the return of those mobilized from the war.
The document, which was signed by the deputy head of the capital’s department of regional security and anti-corruption, Kirill Malyshkin, talks about “responsibility” if an event is held contrary to the decision of officials.
The women submitted a notice to hold a rally demanding that the mobilized women return home last Tuesday, November 14. It was assumed that the action would take place on November 25 on Teatralnaya Square, and up to 300 people would come to it.
“The relatives of the mobilized men want to hold a peaceful, patriotic and unifying event for our society, a concert to support the mobilized men and their families,” says a post from the telegram channel “The Way Home” about the essence of the proposed rally (punctuation and the authors' spelling has been preserved).
Previously, the wives of those mobilized were denied permission to carry out similar actions in Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk. In the first case, the applicants were informed about sanitary measures, and in the second, they referred to Vladimir Putin’s decree on mobilization. In addition, in Krasnoyarsk, an assistant to a deputy of the local regional parliament received administrator rights to the chat of the wives of the mobilized, and then deleted it.
In early November, the telegram channel “The Way Home” voiced the idea of coming to the agreed rally of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on the anniversary of the October Revolution revolution. In Moscow, about 30 relatives of the mobilized came out to the communist rally with posters and demanded to return their husbands home. Organizers and police approached them and asked them to leave because their posters were “off topic.”
The next day, “military correspondent” Alexander Sladkov wrote that he learned from Vladimir Putin that mobilized and contract soldiers would fight «until the end of the Northern Military District.»