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This is about the march and subsequent rally for fair elections on February 4, you can bargain with the authorities and discuss something, but as for the action on January 31 on Triumfalnaya, everything is according to the old scenario: they are dispersed, and some are detained. This time, the police detained 49 people, including the leader of the Other Russia Eduard Limonov, Left Front activist Konstantin Kosyakin, and conductor Mikhail Arkadyev. As one of the participants in the action told the Daily Journal correspondent, even those who stood in a single picket in support of the Other Russia activist Taisiya Osipova, sentenced in Smolensk to ten years in prison, were detained, as usual, under the pretext that they , standing at the picket, they gave interviews.

Most of the detainees were accused of violating the rules of holding rallies and pickets. However, Other Russia activists Marat Salakhiev and Mikhail Shchukin were accused of disobedience to the allegedly legal demands of police officers and were left in the police department overnight. Eyewitnesses report that Salakhiev and Shchukin were beaten.

In St. Petersburg, a protest near the Gostiny Dvor metro station was also roughly dispersed; there were people beaten and maimed.