"We were equated to dogs!" Residents of Zarechny are shocked by the rules for visiting sports facilities

Local authorities at all sports facilities have posted announcements about new rules for visiting: free entry for persons over 18 is prohibited, now you can enter only with a QR code and "pieces of paper".

Zarechny citizens are indignant and demand the abolition of discriminatory rules, according to which from now on, so that, for example, a father or mother could accompany a child to training, parents must present at the entrance a QR code about the passage of a full vaccination cycle, a negative PCR test for covid-19, valid for three days, or a certificate of the transferred coronavirus (of course, you must also have your passport with you).

Residents of the city turned to "Novye Izvestia" with a request to make the situation public, because they are convinced that if the authorities successfully "push" all this from them, it will roll further throughout Russia. Here is what the chairman of the international parental union "Together" Irina Zhiltsova told us (Zarechny, Penza):

"The parent community of the Penza region is outraged to the depths of the soul with what is happening now.

And there is a separation of parents and children on the basis of the presence of a quarkcode; on the basis of vaccination or refusal from it!

On September 24, the chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the city of Zarechny, Penza Region, Valery Siryushov, gave a verbal order to the heads of local sports facilities to post announcements that parents who did not vaccinate, did not take a test, or did not have a covid disease; henceforth, it is forbidden to enter with children to accompany them to sections and sports clubs, and that such parents themselves cannot receive paid services - for example, go swimming. In general, this applies to all persons over 18 years of age.

There are a lot of sports facilities in our city. The Soyuz school, the Sports Palace, the Ice Palace, the athletics school ... A lot. And all these are schools of the Olympic reserve, our sport is very developed, all our children are engaged somewhere.

We are very, to put it mildly, concerned about what happened. We believe that after Moscow, where nothing worked out with this quar-plan, we went into the hinterland to further promote the topic of vaccination. We believe that our constitutional rights have been violated.

Our city Zarechny in the Penza region has the smallest percentage of vaccinated - about 40%, in the region it is 60%.

Dear leaders, you will not achieve your goal by taking such steps. On the contrary, you only cause rejection and protest in people by such actions.

Our indignation has already boiled over enormous. Anxious and indignant parents constantly call and write to us in the Union of Parents, and from all over the country, since we have offices in more than 70 regions of Russia; they asked us to come to a personal meeting with Mr. Siryushov.

We did it, we visited Valery Ivanovich Siryushov, but, unfortunately, there was no understanding between us, he kicked us out, asked to leave the premises. The dialogue did not take place. When we started filming, asking questions, he began to behave very aggressively and just kicked us out the door. He added that "I will not give any official comments on this matter and will not be obliged".

You can see the video of our visit to Siryushov on our instagram.

The verbal order was given to the directors of all sports children's institutions, namely Siryushov, and he himself acts on the basis of the decree of the regional governor of September 14 on the state of emergency in the region. The law was finalized by him, new clauses were added, and it says only about mass events.

We, as parents, have found the definition of mass events, these are pre-agreed events. The place, time and purpose must be determined. We all understand perfectly well that training is not a mass event, but a training process.

Why are we divided, on what basis? Even an ordinary person understands that the interpretation of the law is incorrect. Now we are trying to find out and establish everything officially.

We do not understand why the new rules were adopted only now, because, in fact, we should not have been allowed anywhere since September 14.

But everything happened exactly after the elections, when the results were already announced. Such actions were taken only after that. All this also leads to some reflections, perhaps it is somehow connected.

And most of all we were amazed that there are no such restrictions in Penza, although we have one governor for the whole region, he issues orders, decrees, they are the same for everyone. All are equal before the law.

Why did we, in Zarechny, decide to separate parents and children?

We have 65,000 people living in our city. Penza is literally a stone's throw from us, we are 12 km away. Many people from Zarechensk go to Penza to train.

All our calls and questions in Penza were simply answered - do not forget to take your slates with you, come with your child and train yourself too, we are waiting for you. It was this Saturday.

So, what are we, in Zarechny, different, we do not understand?

The coaching staff of the sports sections scattered all these announcements on chats, the coaches were forced to do it. But, having seen how negatively the parental community perceived this, they began to slowly reply to us that you, they say, “can still bring the child to workout and just pick him up later,” but they do not intend to remove these discriminatory ads. And the ads, of course, must be removed!

The feeling of what is happening is just awful, dear friends. From how they talk to us, from what announcements were posted...

When I took the children to training, I saw stray dogs that were spinning nearby and they were not allowed into the territory. In fact, the dogs really shouldn't be missed.

So, now, all of Zarechny's parents who have not gone through the "fashionable procedure" need to sit with these street dogs, right? How do you imagine that?

The parents are just shocked, do you understand?

We were advised to apply to the prosecutor's office, probably, this will really have to be done. We called there. Reception day - Wednesday. By this time, we plan to prepare an appeal and get to a personal appointment.

Dear friends, such violations must be stopped in the bud and monitored throughout the country.

In Moscow, this did not work out. People have defended their right to visit restaurants and cafes.

And we, with the whole country, must now stand up to protect our city of Zarechny, and defend the right of Zarechny parents to accompany their children to trainings and classes.

Let me remind you that while in our country, thank God, compulsory vaccination for children has not been introduced, about which they have been talking more and more often, and therefore the children themselves can enter the sports centers without any "papers". How long will this all last?

We are very worried, we understand that if this is not stopped now, in Zarechny, it will continue to spread throughout Russia. It is obvious. All these are the first calls about the introduction of compulsory vaccination. People, realize this!"