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Early turnout estimates suggest that amidst heavy police presence and after weeks of intimidation, so far only a fragment of the number who signed up on Team N's website turned out. This is Irkutsk, a city that normally has considerable opposition presence. https://twitter.com/znak_com/status/1384831242886070273
Note that @taygainfo estimated the turnout in Irkutsk at 1,000 people vs 4,300 sign-ups. A similar turnout country-wide wd still mean more than 100,000 people, which is considerable, but not a lot and would suggest to the Kremlin that intimidation works. https://tayga.info/166780
Novosibirsk: according to Tayga's estimates about 3,000 people are protesting right now. There were 12,500 registrations from the city, so the ratio is roughly the same as in Irkutsk. https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1384843417205755904
New estimates: 4,000 in Novosibirsk, 2,000 in Irkutsk (source: @taygainfo). This is 32 and 46 percent of the number of registrations from these cities.
(A similar ratio would mean a crowd of 38-55 thousand in Moscow)
(A similar ratio would mean a crowd of 38-55 thousand in Moscow)
While so far there have been less arrests than expected, journalists have reported provocateurs in Tomsk & heavy police presence all over. In Omsk, according to Team N, police are blocking the square where they planned to meet, so they're going elsewhere https://twitter.com/teamnavalny_om/status/1384858940744237059
1,500-2,000 people in Omsk, it seems.
Signed up: 5,000. https://twitter.com/mediazzzona/status/1384882484031143941?s=19
Signed up: 5,000. https://twitter.com/mediazzzona/status/1384882484031143941?s=19
Perm, which will hold regional and municipal elections in September: reportedly roughly 1,500 people so far.
Signed up: 6,800 https://twitter.com/znak_com/status/1384879361795428364?s=19
Signed up: 6,800 https://twitter.com/znak_com/status/1384879361795428364?s=19
Yekaterinburg: between 5,000 (police) and 13-14,000 (organizers) people.
Signed up: 14,800.
(No surprise, Yekaterinburg saw the biggest protests outside of the capitals in January as well.) https://66.ru/news/society/240201/
Signed up: 14,800.
(No surprise, Yekaterinburg saw the biggest protests outside of the capitals in January as well.) https://66.ru/news/society/240201/
The Sverdlovsk Region, of which Yekaterinburg is the capital, will also hold a regional legislative election in September.
I listed some of the more interesting regional votes in this thread: https://twitter.com/NoYardstick/status/1384480312088989700
I listed some of the more interesting regional votes in this thread: https://twitter.com/NoYardstick/status/1384480312088989700
