FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE RADICAL ASSEMBLY OF MOSCOW AND MOSCOW REGION
Approved with 28 votes "for", 2 "against" and 3 abstentions.
We, the participants of the Radical Assembly of Moscow and Moscow region, members of the Transnational Radical Party, of the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA) and Club Khramov - an Association for Libertarian Reforms; citizens who support the radical struggle for freedom, civil rights, law-abiding state, for the Right to Life and the Life of the Right,
united in Moscow on September 18, 1999,
consider that in the next few months the political and organisational priority should belong to the petition campaign "The third millennium without conscription slavery" and confirm its object: to collect 50.000 signatures of Russian citizens under the petition for the abolition of conscription and the professional army by January 2000.
We appeal to all people who support the abolition of the conscription slavery in Russia to join our activity for collecting signatures under this petition.
We are glad to stress political and moral support manifested to the campaign "The third millennium without conscription slavery" by Sergei Kirienko. We appeal to "New Force" "Moscow Alternative" movements, led by Kirienko, and call them to collaborate; we also approve the decision of Sergei Kirienko to run for Moscow mayor.
We also invite to collaboration all democratic and liberal forces in our country.
As far as the present-day political situation is concerned, we are worried by the fact that civil rights and freedoms are to become the next victim of explosions in Moscow. We consider it necessary to unite all democratic and liberal forces in Russia in order to resist to the fast establishment of an openly police regime in our country.
We also disapprove recent legislation initiatives of Moscow mayor Luzhkov for the introduction of criminal penalty for drug consumption and of death penalty for drug distribution. We would like to draw the attention to the necessity of launching once again and developing antiprohibitionist initiatives in Russia.
We appeal to everybody who would like to help the success of our campaign "The third millennium without conscription slavery" and of other radicals initiatives in defence of freedom, of the Right to Life and the Life of Right, to join the Transnational Radical Party and the Antimilitarist Radical Association in 1999 in order to provide both the success of our initiatives and the future existence of the Party and the ARA that are still at risk.