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St. Petersburg Citizens Rally to Defend Child Cancer Center
4.02.2013 11:01
St. Petersburg Citizens Rally to Defend Child Cancer Center
http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/02/03/Miting-v-zaschitu-31-i-bolnitcy-na-Marsovom-pole-zavershilsya-334227/

About 800 people gathered in downtown St. Petersburg on Sunday to protest the possible closing of St. Petersburg’s unique children’s cancer treatment center.

      The rally was coordinated with local authorities. According to organizers up to 2,000 came to Marsovo Pole in protest against the move. Local police reported no incidents registered during the protest.

      The rumours that one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in St. Petersburg is to be relocated to accommodate a clinic for Supreme Court and Supreme Arbitration Court staff after they move to St. Petersburg from Moscow shocked both City Hall and the general public late last year. For many days, St. Petersburg residents rallied and collected signatures against the move, gathering more than 100,000 signatures in a few days.

      In January, Russian authorities denied the plans to relocate the center, saying that it is not on the list of possible facilities to be converted into a hospital for Russian judges. However, St. Petersburg citizens doubt that the plans to shut the clinic have been dropped.




Author: Julia Alieva

Tags: protest actions Russian hospitals St. Petersburg St. Petersburg actions  

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