Well, what would we do without it?

What should government officials do on election day? Of course, detain the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov. Unknown men in civilian clothes forced him into a car without license plates near the Sokol metro station and took him away in an unknown direction. At this time, he was heading to a public gathering against the elections in the center of Moscow. On December 3, the police blocked his apartment and also tried to open the door to the apartment of Left Front activists on Varshavskoe Highway.

RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, reported that in this way Udaltsov was forcibly brought in, since he had recently failed to appear in court at the appointed time.

About 30 people gathered in the Red Square area, the agency reports. 12 of them, as the agency was told by the same police department, “were actively distributing leaflets” and were detained. According to the network TV channel Dozhd, all visitors were expelled from the Okhotny Ryad shopping center.

According to the latest information, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Journal, Alexander Ryklin, has been detained. Since in the center the passage to both Manezhnaya and Red Square is blocked, he went to the State Duma building with a poster “Stick your elections in your...”. He was allowed to stand like that for five or six minutes. Ryklin was taken to the police department, but later released without any sanctions, only the poster was taken away.

Later it became known that Pushkinskaya Square, as well as Triumfalnaya (where the opposition planned to hold a rally at 18.00) were also blocked.

On Triumfalnaya, shortly before the expected start of the opposition action, the leader of the “We” movement, Roman Dobrokhotov, was detained there as a journalist, which he managed to inform the representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Viktor Biryukov, about, but this did not stop the riot police from detaining him. As he managed to tell the Dozhd network television channel, there were five people on the bus with him, just like him, who were detained in the square for no reason - they were just standing. The police are pushing people out of the square; someone in the crowd lit a fire. It later became known that those who lit the fires were detained. The leader of the Other Russia, Eduard Limonov, was also detained. Oppositionists also burned ballots. The police detain people very harshly, some are beaten; As one of the participants in the action told the Daily Journal correspondent, during his arrest his eye was almost gouged out, and he was also thrown to the ground and kicked. He was taken to the hospital. Among the detainees are Solidarity activist Vsevolod Chernozub, Defense coordinator Oleg Kozlovsky, Other Russia activists Nikolai Avdyushenkov and Igor Shchuka (Chernozub and Avdyushenkov were beaten on a bus with the lights off), leader of the Moscow branch of the OGF Lolita Tsaria, composer Alexander Manotskov, public figure Yulia Privedennaya.

In St. Petersburg, a protest rally takes place near Gostiny Dvor. According to various reports, there were several dozen people here, about half were detained, including one of the leaders of the local branch of the Other Russia.

In Moscow, two Radio Liberty correspondents were not allowed into the building of the Central Election Commission, their accreditation was taken away right at the entrance.

In St. Petersburg, journalists are not allowed into polling stations and are not allowed to take photographs. Fontanka.Ru employee Denis Sadovsky was not allowed into the station on Serebristy Boulevard; a correspondent for the Morning of Petersburg newspaper was not allowed into another station, although he showed his editorial ID; at the third, Rosbalt photojournalist Olga Goryanina was threatened that she would be kicked out of the station. , if she tries to take a photo of something. Fontanka.Ru photojournalist Andrei Zakharov, who photographed the voter lists, was detained.

If we talk about the media, it should be noted that on election day the websites of Echo of Moscow, Slon.Ru, The New Times, and Big City are unavailable. The Kommersant website, which was attacked a few days earlier, is still unavailable. In addition, Livejournal.Com was attacked again.

At the moment, there are already quite a lot of reports about how election observers are not allowed to move around polling stations, how “dead souls” are found on the lists - people who are not registered in apartments are marked as registered (but the real registered ones, on the contrary, are not on the list) , - how people are transported from polling station to polling station on buses, how billboards advertising one of the parties end up in people’s paths, in violation of the law.

However, the Daily Journal correspondent was told from one of the polling stations that they managed to remove an observer from the United Russia party, who did not have a direction in hand. But still, other observers, as well as members of election commissions, feel more pressure - as the network TV channel Dozhd says, local correspondents working at polling stations in the commissions are sent away - to voters sitting at home.

As for Udaltsov, he was sentenced to arrest for five days for the alleged notorious disobedience to the legal demands of police officers, after which he went on a dry hunger strike. “Gazeta.Ru” quotes the words of representatives of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: “The period of administrative arrest previously assigned to Udaltsov by the decision of the Zyuzinsky court, and which he did not serve, having escaped from the hospital, has not yet been determined and will be added to the current term of arrest.”

What should government officials do on election day? Of course, detain the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov. Unknown people pushed him into a car near the Sokol metro station and took him away in an unknown direction. At this time, he was heading to a public gathering against the elections in the center of Moscow. On December 3, the police blocked his apartment and also tried to open the door to the apartment of Left Front activists on Varshavskoe Highway.