MOSCOW: Tens of 1000's of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the nation organised by Communists to protest towards extremely controversial plans to hike the pension age.
In Moscow, organisers said as much as 100,000 other people collected for a authorized rally towards the government-backed reform, which is these days going thru parliament. However, journalists put the turnout a lot lower at round 10,000.
Protests happened in dozens of cities and cities in a long way jap Russia, Siberia and western Russia.
Around 1,200 other people protested within the Siberian town of Novosibirsk, TASS state information agency reported, bringing up town hall.
Demonstrators in Moscow chanted "Pension-off Putin!" and carried banners with slogans together with "We want to live on our pensions and not die at work."
In Russia's 2d largest town of Saint Petersburg, round 1,000 other people took part in a Communist rally, with some waving pink flags and keeping portraits of Stalin.
The uncommon display of public opposition to a reform backed by President Vladimir Putin's ruling party has observed 2.9 million sign a protest petition and the regularly compliant Communist Party vote towards it.
Putin, who didn't mention the problem ahead of his re-election in March and had up to now vowed to not raise the pension age, has observed public believe in his presidency fall to 64 in line with cent this month, down from 80 in line with cent in May, in step with VTsIOM state pollster.
"Many believed Putin when he said there would be no pension reform. It turns out that was demagoguery. I'm very disappointed with him," protester Irina Ivanova, 49, advised AFP in Saint Petersburg.
The draft regulation calls for the pension age to be gradually raised to 63 for ladies and 65 for males, up from the present Soviet-era norms of 55 for ladies and 60 for males.
Putin ultimate week said he disliked the speculation of raising the pension age however that doing not anything used to be not an possibility, insisting "we will have to take some crucial decisions".
"Tens of thousands have gathered here to say no to this pension reform," Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov advised the Moscow rally.
"This is a blow to every citizen in our country."
Those who oppose the reform argue that many Russians, in particular males, will not live to experience their pensions.
Currently, Russian males on reasonable die in their early 60s, Zyuganov said, and "they will all get their pension in their coffins".
In addition, many Russians say that employers are reluctant to rent older other people.
"How will we live? I don't know. They don't hire anyone over 50," said 59-year-old Galina Nikiforova in Saint Petersburg.
The speaker of the lower space of parliament, representing Putin's United Russia ruling party, said Friday that such protests were unnecessary.
"You can't resolve these questions at demonstrations," Vyacheslav Volodin advised the Communist faction in parliament.
Opposition chief Alexei Navalny has called on his supporters to wait an authorized rally towards the pension reforms in Moscow on Sunday afternoon, organised by the little-known Libertarian Party.
"We all understand perfectly: the only real aim of this 'reform' is to rob the public," he wrote in his blog.
In Moscow, organisers said as much as 100,000 other people collected for a authorized rally towards the government-backed reform, which is these days going thru parliament. However, journalists put the turnout a lot lower at round 10,000.
Protests happened in dozens of cities and cities in a long way jap Russia, Siberia and western Russia.
Around 1,200 other people protested within the Siberian town of Novosibirsk, TASS state information agency reported, bringing up town hall.
Demonstrators in Moscow chanted "Pension-off Putin!" and carried banners with slogans together with "We want to live on our pensions and not die at work."
In Russia's 2d largest town of Saint Petersburg, round 1,000 other people took part in a Communist rally, with some waving pink flags and keeping portraits of Stalin.
The uncommon display of public opposition to a reform backed by President Vladimir Putin's ruling party has observed 2.9 million sign a protest petition and the regularly compliant Communist Party vote towards it.
Putin, who didn't mention the problem ahead of his re-election in March and had up to now vowed to not raise the pension age, has observed public believe in his presidency fall to 64 in line with cent this month, down from 80 in line with cent in May, in step with VTsIOM state pollster.
"Many believed Putin when he said there would be no pension reform. It turns out that was demagoguery. I'm very disappointed with him," protester Irina Ivanova, 49, advised AFP in Saint Petersburg.
The draft regulation calls for the pension age to be gradually raised to 63 for ladies and 65 for males, up from the present Soviet-era norms of 55 for ladies and 60 for males.
Putin ultimate week said he disliked the speculation of raising the pension age however that doing not anything used to be not an possibility, insisting "we will have to take some crucial decisions".
"Tens of thousands have gathered here to say no to this pension reform," Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov advised the Moscow rally.
"This is a blow to every citizen in our country."
Those who oppose the reform argue that many Russians, in particular males, will not live to experience their pensions.
Currently, Russian males on reasonable die in their early 60s, Zyuganov said, and "they will all get their pension in their coffins".
In addition, many Russians say that employers are reluctant to rent older other people.
"How will we live? I don't know. They don't hire anyone over 50," said 59-year-old Galina Nikiforova in Saint Petersburg.
The speaker of the lower space of parliament, representing Putin's United Russia ruling party, said Friday that such protests were unnecessary.
"You can't resolve these questions at demonstrations," Vyacheslav Volodin advised the Communist faction in parliament.
Opposition chief Alexei Navalny has called on his supporters to wait an authorized rally towards the pension reforms in Moscow on Sunday afternoon, organised by the little-known Libertarian Party.
"We all understand perfectly: the only real aim of this 'reform' is to rob the public," he wrote in his blog.
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