65 Russian officials are now demanding a Vladimir Putin poster

Just days after Russian officials in Saint Petersburg and Moscow publicly called for President Vladimir Putin to relinquish power, the number of elected officials calling for the ouster of the Russian president jumped to 65. That’s according to Ksenia TorstreamPetersburg deputies collecting signatures for the initiative. Now, deputies of municipalities from Samara, Yakutsk, Veliky Novgorod and Voronezh have also joined the appeal. In an interview with an independent investigative reporter, FirstkaSome of the Moscow MPs who launched the effort said they understand very well that they will not get a positive response from the Russian government. (The Saint Petersburg District Council who first initiated and called for Putin to be prosecuted for treason is already It is set to be resolved On the orders of the city court, and one of its members was fined for “discrediting” the authorities.) “We could have asked Putin about many things all these years – reform, adherence to the constitution, and also asked him to release him. [Alexei] Navalny. “It seems that after February 24, there is no point in asking for anything other than his departure,” said Timofey Nikolaev, a municipal deputy in Moscow. Another municipal representative, Olga Shtatskaya, told Verstka that “fog” had swallowed up the country that had to be destroyed. She said she “felt a little sorry that we didn’t think of doing this sooner.”