Moscow municipal deputies asked Putin to resign

dw: The Council of Deputies of the Moscow municipal district "Lomonosovsky" on September 8 asked the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to resign. In a published appeal to the president, Moscow  municipal deputies write that the succession of power is important for the successful development of the country, and after Putin's second term, "everything went somehow awry: the doubling of GDP did not happen, the minimum wage did not rise to the declared figures, smart and able-bodied people are leaving Russia en masse, there is no sign of the promised stability."

"The rhetoric that you and your subordinates use has been permeated with intolerance and aggression for a long time, which eventually actually threw our country back into the Cold War era. They began to fear and hate Russia again, we are threatening the whole world with nuclear weapons again," the deputies of the Lomonosovsky Defense Ministry continue.

They summarize that Putin's views and his management model are "hopelessly outdated, and hinder the development of Russia and its human potential." In connection with all this, the Moscow mundeps ask the President of Russia to "release himself from his post."

Moscow mundeps also appealed to Sobyanin

At the same meeting on September 8, deputies of the Lomonosov District also adopted an appeal to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. They stated that the system of local self-government does not actually work in Moscow, and a dual power has developed at the district level, which hinders any initiatives of local residents and their representatives.

St. Petersburg mundeps called to dismiss Putin for treason

On September 7, the Council of Deputies of the St. Petersburg Smolninskoe Ministry of Defense decided to send an appeal to the State Duma calling for Putin to be removed from office because of treason. They called the consequences of the president's decisions as signs of such: the destruction of Russian army units, the death and injury of young and able-bodied citizens of the Russian Federation, damage to the Russian economy and the expansion of NATO, as well as equipping the Ukrainian army with modern Western equipment, which contradicts the stated goal of its "demilitarization".

One of the St. Petersburg  municipal deputies who supported the initiative, Nikita Yuferev, told DW that on September 8, he and other deputies of the Smolninskoye Ministry of Defense received calls to the police. There they drew up protocols on the "discrediting" of the Russian army.