Drivers are against the system of collection of tolls on Federal highways “Plato”.
The Russian Stavropol to disperse truckers drove tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
The corresponding video appeared on YouTube and circulated in social networks.
“Doubt that armor will use to suppress any protests. But truckers are somehow not afraid of tow trucks that are trying to break through their blockade, accompanied by cops,” writes a well-known blogger PAULUSKP.
Earlier it was reported that in the Dagestani town of Manas Regardie troops surrounded the truck stop, not wanting from April 15 to pay tolls on Federal highways by the payment system “Platon”. According to various sources, the place was going to 200 employees of the interior Ministry.
On March 25 the leaders of the protest movement truckers promised the authorities to bring to meetings up to 10 thousand people. Two days earlier, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with protesting drivers and has supported a number of their proposals. So, the rate in the “Plato” will be raised twice, by 25%.
In Saint-Petersburg on the Moscow highway on Tuesday, March 28, there were about 25 trucks on Monday — about 70. “Stand is the only way. The most important thing is that we do not ship and will not carry,” explains local activist Sergei Ovchinnikov.
5 November 2015 in Russia was introduced the collection of tolls of heavy vehicles weighing more than 12 t on Federal highways with a special system “Platon”. Innovation triggered the protests of truckers across the country. Subsequently, the authorities reduced the tariff, and the state Duma in 90 times to reduce the penalties for non-payment, but drivers these concessions did not satisfy.
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