For battle

On Triumfalnaya Square, police detain protesters. The area is cordoned off.

In addition, the entire territory from the exit from the Mayakovskaya metro station to the Satire Theater was occupied by activists of pro-Kremlin youth movements. Many of them beat drums and chant “Russia! Putin! (who is this?). According to the police, there are about five thousand of them. But still not ten, as the top functionary of United Russia Andrei Isaev promised. I would advise these young people to go to the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Conservatory, where at this time the Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Mark Pekarsky is giving a concert dedicated to the anniversary of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina and their own, in order to become familiar with how to use percussion instruments for their intended purpose and not disgrace themselves wherein. (Well, it should also be noted that the pro-Kremlin rally in support of the election results has already taken place; blogs report that they do not have an application for the rally on Triumfalnaya, however, the police are not stopping these guys - however, there is nothing surprising here.) By the way , among those detained is composer Alexander Manotskov. As the Daily Journal correspondent was told, after his arrest he was beaten in a paddy wagon. The detained former mayor of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, is also there with him. Kommersant correspondent Alexander Chernykh was detained and beaten, his phone was broken and he was thrown out of the paddy wagon onto the street. Leader of the Other Russia Eduard Limonov, leader of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin, co-chairman of the People's Freedom Party Boris Nemtsov, and economic commentator Maxim Blunt were detained. The head of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Oleg Orlov, was detained, however, as he himself told the Daily Journal correspondent, they only took him to the bus, after which they said: “We won’t detain you.” Secular journalist Bozena Rynska was detained. The police, as usual, divide the crowd into sectors. Meanwhile, people are arriving. Later it became known that approximately two hundred people moved along Sadovaya towards Krasnaya Presnya. And young pro-Kremlin activists were replaced by new ones with flags and megaphones.

After everything had relatively calmed down in the Triumfalnaya area (about 250 people were detained), it became known that some left-wing activists (in particular, representatives of the Russian Socialist Movement) marched in a column to the White House, where they were met by riot police. People began to be detained very harshly, promising to use physical force and using it.

Boris Nemtsov was released from the Tverskoy police station three hours after his arrest, without explaining the reasons. He told Interfax that when he tried to find out the reasons from the police, he was told: “There was a command.”

Mitrokhin was also released three hours after his arrest. They also did not incriminate anything and did not explain the reasons for the detention. At the same time, he was detained twice that day: first, he was released after five minutes - as Mitrokhin explained to Interfax, “having found out that the law prohibits detaining a candidate for State Duma deputy without a court decision.” “But this time, clarifying the legislation took more than three hours,” said the leader of the party that did not enter parliament.

A similar action is taking place in St. Petersburg near Gostiny Dvor, the police are detaining the participants of the action. The opposition goes to the Legislative Assembly. In some polling stations, people are demanding a recount of votes, threatening to take to the streets otherwise.

A procession also took place in Rostov-on-Don, people were holding white sheets of paper over their heads, but riot police dispersed the procession and detained the alleged organizers.