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The hour of the picket
Not only mass rallies and processions are held in the waking up country. Single pickets are more relevant than ever. This is a way to commit a civic act and realize your creative potential.
By law, single pickets do not require approval, but you must be prepared for provocations and arbitrariness. At the request of the "faces", human rights activist Dmitry Makarov, an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Freedom of Assembly and Associations, is given to picketers .
On the eve of a series of single pickets planned in Moscow on February 2, we decided to recall the most striking actions of recent years in this format.
Picket of solidarity with Harry Kasparov November 26-28, 2007, Moscow.
Activists of the United Civil Front, as well as Viktor Shenderovich, Boris Nemtsov, Marietta Chudakova, Nikita Belykh and Roman Dobrokhotov held pickets at the GUVD building on Petrovka, where the leader of the OGF Harry Kasparov allegedly served his arrest. Participants in the action demanded the release of Kasparov. During the pickets, several participants and journalists were detained.
Photo: EJ.ru
"My voice is 2x2!" September 20, 2008, Moscow.
Along Tverskaya Street stood one hundred spectators of the 2x2 television channel, protesting against the closure of the channel and the ban on the cartoon of the South Park cartoon. 100 people stood on both sides of the street at a distance from each other and for an hour collected signatures against the closure of the channel. For the first time, Leonid Nikolaev first appeared, who later was waiting for the fate of the politician and the impudent artist of the art group "War".
Photo: Bonzo83
Video Dmitry Zykova:
"Extension of the deadlines = Uzurpation of power" on November 19, 2008, Moscow.
The Yabloko and the Left Front protested at the State Duma on Okhotny’s row against amendments to the Constitution, increasing the presidential term of up to six years, parliamentary - up to five. At the end of the action, the participants released the Russian Constitution into the air, and it flew away. “There is no more constitution in Russia,” the picketers stated.
Video Dmitry Zykova:
OMON employee picket at the White House February 2009, Moscow.
The inspector of the information and documentation department of the Moscow riot police, Svetlana Kostetskaya, went to the picket after her daughter was crippled. Kostetskaya believes that this was done in revenge for often writing reports on her colleagues for violating the charter and abuse of office. The authorities have repeatedly hinted Svetlana that she had to moderate her ardor, but the woman strictly followed official instructions. After this picket, she was dismissed.
Video Stanislav Shushkevich:
Pickets "Solidarity" in defense of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev on June 4, 2009, Moscow.
In single pickets near the building of the Khamovnichesky court in Moscow, the leaders of the opposition movement "Solidarity" took part: Roman Dobrokhotov, Oleg Kozlovsky, Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov, Alexander Ryklin, Lev Ponomarev, Harry Kasparov, Ivan Davidis, Denis Bilunov and Mikhail Schneider. They held a poster in their hands: "The trial of Khodorkovsky is a political process. Freedom to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev." Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Marina Filippovna, came to the participants in a series of pickets from the court building and expressed gratitude for participating in the fate of her son.
Dmitry Borco's video:
"Trained marchings poison a person" on October 2, 2009, Moscow.
The defenders of the journalist Alexander Podrabink came to the entrance of his house in Perovo to meet with the ourselves, conducting a multi -day action there. The defenders of the Spanner protested against human persecution for his beliefs.
Video Dmitry Zykova:
"Solidarity with Eduard Lemonov" November 16, 2009, Moscow.
The action was held at the walls of the special receiver for administratively arrested on Simferopol Boulevard. Eight leaders of "solidarity" were detained one after another during single pickets in support of Eduard Limonov, arrested for 10 days for exit to the triumphal square. Three of them were detained as a result of a provocation: two people in civilian clothes (each time and the same) stood next to them, as a result of which the picket ceased to be single.
Detention. Video Dmitry Zykova:
Participants' impressions:
"Barkov to answer!" March 9, 2010, Moscow.
The share of the left front was held at the walls of the Lukoil oil company, in which Anatoly Barkov, a participant in an accident on Leninsky Prospekt on February 25, 2010, works. As a result of this accident, two women died, and a senior culprit managed to evade responsibility. Police officers tried to detain participants, Lukoil’s employees refused to accept their appeal.
Video Dmitry Zykova:
"There is no police in Moscow" June 3-4, 2010, Moscow.
Activists of "Solidarity" held a series of single pickets near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand for the resignation of the Minister and the investigation of crimes committed on May 31 during the strategy-31 campaign. That day there were a huge number of detainees who were beaten in police departments. One of the detainees - an activist of "solidarity" and journalist Alexander Artemyev - broke his hand. The pickets were attended by Andrei Piontkovsky and Viktor Shenderovich.
Video Dmitry Zykova:
"Chekist puppet in the Kremlin" July 26, 2010, Moscow
The action "Medvedev, do not be a puppet of the FSB. The apple tree, Arthur Grokhovsky, carried a poster in a gift package on Red Square. Then he tore the package and stood in front of the mausoleum. Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenty Beria, Vladimir Putin were depicted on the poster. On the ropes tied to their fingers, a puppet dangled from the photograph of Dmitry Medvedev dangled. Grokhovsky was detained. Prior to this, the Yablons protested against the expansion of the powers of the FSB from the State Duma and the Federation Council . And the St. Petersburg "Youth Apple" held a theatrical action at the "Big House" on Litein.
Video apple-TV:
Pickets in defense of journalist Oleg Kashina November 2010, Moscow.
Friends and relatives of the journalist Oleg Kashin, brutally beaten on the night of November 6, as well as the people who sympathize with him, for several days held a series of single pickets in front of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate on Petrovka. They stood one on both sides of the street and held the poster in their hands "The journalist Oleg Kashin was beaten. I demand to find performers and customers!".
Video Dmitry and Anna Borko:
"Waiting for justice" December 15, 2010, Moscow.
Before the uninhabited announcement of the sentence, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, people gathered at the building of the Hamovnichesky court. Someone held homemade posters, portraits of the defendants, many stood with the booklets of the press center of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. The prefecture refused to coordinate the usual picket, so the organizers invited people to hold a rally in the format of many single pickets. After a while, scattered single picketers silently formed a chain, holding hands. The journalist Leonid Parfenov , poet Igor Irteniev and writer Viktor Shenderovich made a call to go to single actions.
Dmitry Borco's video:
"Family cleaning of snow" March 15, 2011, Novosibirsk.
Performance "Family Snow Cleaning" was organized by the artist Artem Loskutov. In the square of the heroes of the Revolution of Pokutov, for an hour, the snow was removed from the sidewalks with a shovel. “Snow cleaning is what my Ukrainian friend and colleague, artist and blogger Alexander Volodarsky are now forced to do now. Since March 1, he was serving a conclusion in the colony near Kiev - the court qualified the performance performed by him in November 2009 as“ hooliganism committed by a group of persons, ”and sentenced to restrictions of freedom,” said the organizer of the performance. As Volodarsky reported, there is no work in the colony at all. The prisoners collect snow in snowdrifts, and then scatter it again.
Photo of Oksana Mamlina .
Video Pavel Proskuryakov:
Pickets in defense of the Belarusian political prisoners on May 16, 2011, Moscow.
When, after the presidential election in Belarus, ex-candidates, journalists and participants in a peaceful demonstration were abandoned in Belorussian elections in Belorussia, a picket in prison robes was organized by the "New Gazeta" in Moscow. In the spring of the Embassy of Belarus, single pickets were held in support of political prisoners who received the deadlines for "organization and participation in the riots." The action was attended by about thirty people - mainly human rights activists and journalists. On the posters it was written “Lukashenko, remember Chauserka,“ freedom of the Belarusian political prisoner ”and“ dad-5 years of amplified regime, mom-two years with a delay. And Danka was just four ”(about the sentences of the ex-candidate of President Andrei Sannikov and his wife, journalist Irina Khalip).
Journalist Vladimir Bartholomeev
Writer Viktor Shenderovich
Journalist Irina Vorobyova
Photo: Alexey Komarov, "New Gazeta"
"Meditation ato" June 16, 2011, Moscow.
At the Embassy of Ukraine, artists and civil activists gathered, who meditated that the political activist and artist Alexander Volodarsky is provided with parole. The picket was not agreed with the Moscow authorities, so the participants conducted it in the form of single meditation and Mantra reading. Police officers did not interfere, the mantra rewritten.
Veniamin Dmitroshkina Video:
"Freedom to Denis Solopov" June 20, 2011, Moscow.
On World Jimkinsky hostage refugee, the campaign for the liberation of the Khimki hostages held a theatrical action in defense of the political prisoner Denis Solopov, who was in the Kiev investigative insulator. A conventional picket was prohibited by the authorities, so the participants in the action held an event in the form of a series of single pickets that made up the performance of Denis Solopov.
Filming of Benjamin Dmitroshkina:
"Put your elections to yourself in ..." December 4, 2011, Moscow.
The editor -in -chief of the "Daily Journal" Alexander Ryklin stood at the State Duma building with the poster "Put your elections to yourself in ...". He was detained by police officers. Photo and video protesters have not been preserved.
Pickets against the death penalty in the Republic of Belarus December 27, 2011, Moscow.
A series of single pickets for the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty and pardon Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalev, sentenced to execution on charges of a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro on April 11, 2011, was held at the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow. The initiator of the action was student Alexander Roginsky, 8 people took part in the pickets. “It hurt me that two people whose fault was not proven was sentenced to death. The court ignored the defense argument and even many Belarusians do not believe the court decision. All over the world they react to the verdict, and in Moscow they are silent. In general, the decision was caused by a mental impulse,” said Roginsky.
"The freedom of Taisiya Osipova!" January 10, 2012, Moscow.
Single pickets in support of the activist of the Unregistered Party "Another Russia", sentenced in December by 10 years in prison on charges of preparation for drug sales, all metro stations were covered. People stood with the same posters "Freedom of Taisiya Osipova!", And also distributed leaflets to passers -by with a photograph of a political prisoner. Several picket participants were detained by the police.
The impressions of the participant
Veniamin Dmitroshkina Video:
"Putin, damn it, go out on the debate!" January 15, 2012, Moscow.
ZhZh-Yuzer Shmagun held a single picket at the White House with a poster "Putin, damn it, go to the debate!" The girl said about her motives like this: “He said something like“ I will not go out on the debate, because this is not a struggle on equal terms. But, so be it, I will send my mints (I will prepare five on various issues), and they float with your shakings from the opposition. ”This, on the one hand, is a statement of fact - what kind of debate can it be for Girik with Putin. And on the other hand, it is insulting. If you have cleaned the political space, then be good to exist in it. According to the rules.”
Photo: shmagun.livejournal.com
Picket at the CEC meeting January 27, 2012, Moscow.
The activist of the Yabloko party Olga Naskovets picked the building of the Central Election Commission with the poster "We require honest elections." The Chairman of the CEC Vladimir Churov invited the apple tree to a meeting of the commission so that she would not freeze on the street. "Today we have a single picketer Olga Petrovna at the meeting," Churov told those present. It was at this meeting that the CEC officially refused to register presidential candidates Grigory Yavlinsky and Dmitry Mezentsev.
Video kp.ru:
A single picket in the swimsuit "And we are stronger" January 29, 2012, Moscow.
Journalist of the ID "Kommersant" ("And we are stronger" - the slogan of the Kommersant's advertising campaign), the former political activist Anastasia Karimova held a single picket at the point of gathering participants in the future procession "For Honest Elections". On the same day, a rally in support of the march on February 4 took place on the garden ring. "Until yesterday, I was frozen in well -heated rooms in Pulover and under a thick blanket; on the street I was cold in a down jacket, in two jackets and in winter pants with tights. Perhaps it was a psychosomatic chills because of the rejection of winter," Karimova writes. "Yesterday I stopped freezing, and from the sun, dryness on the roads and hundreds of people who came out that came out. On the garden ring, to wave with white scarves to the participants in the rally, there was a feeling of tender early spring. "
Photo from Facebook Anastasia Karimova