Blues in the city

On May 12, representatives of the Blue Bucket Society gathered on Manezhnaya Square. There were several dozen of them, 16 people were detained by the police without discussing the reasons and were soon released without charges. This is already becoming like a ritual. The arrests began after those gathered with buckets on their heads and other blue objects in their hands refused to disperse at the request of the police. It is remarkable that people with blue objects reached the Kitay-Gorod police station on foot before some of the detainees were taken there. While the detainees were in the police department, the head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, Viktor Biryukov, who was well known to participants in various authorized and unauthorized actions, came out to those gathered on the street and promised to look into it. Those gathered signed a collective statement to the head of the police department about the illegal detention of people. While they were waiting for their comrades to be released, eyewitnesses estimated that at least 15 cars with flashing lights drove by. Representatives of the Blue Bucket Society greeted each car with shouts of “The master is coming!” and bows to the ground.