Timur.Dosaev
2nd December 2015, 13:28
Last weekend, there were protests across Russia by truckers against the launch of "Platon," a new federal highway system that imposes tolls on vehicles weighing more than 12 metric tons. Talk among demonstrators is increasingly about taking the movement to Moscow, where a massive protest was previously scheduled to occur on Monday, November 30. Those plans have changed, and the soonest the truckers might assemble in the capital is now Friday, December 4. Many of the men who planned to be in Moscow by the end of November still haven't made it into the city, thanks to obstacles put in their way by traffic police. Officers are searching the trucks (looking for drivers without cargo) and blocking their movement. Some Moscow-bound protesters have only just left their home cities, but they're already encountering checkpoints well outside of Moscow, often with SWAT-team reinforcements.
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