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Official fired for not sending people to
pro-Putin rally
Tuesday February 07, 2012 08:46:50 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: The
director of a training centre lost her job for refusing to ensure
her employees' attendance at a rally in support of Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin.
Yelena Travina, director of the Karavella centre in Moscow, was
forced to write her resignation, stating that she had actually
told her employees to attend the rally in Moscow's Poklonnaya Gora
park Saturday, the Novaya Gazeta reported.
The centre had received an order to send eight teachers to the
rally but Travina challenged it at a meeting with a local
education authority.
After the incident, the centre was told not to send any people to
the rally but teachers from other schools in Moscow's Zelenograd
region were taken there.
Last week, there were numerous reports that state employees were
being coerced into attending the pro-Putin rally. Internet
activists have started putting such companies on a black list.
The liberal Yabloko party has asked prosecutors to investigate
those reports after bloggers logded complaints from state
employees, including postal workers and school teachers, that they
were being threatened with fines and demotions if they refused to
attend.
Bonuses and "late breakfasts" were offered in return for
attendance.
Police said between 90,000 and to 160,000 attended the event in
Putin's support, compared to 35,000 at an opposition rally, whose
organisers estimated attendance at 100,000.
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