Happy New Riot!

On New Year's Eve, a group of art activists hung from Luzhkov Bridge on Bolotnaya Square Banner "Happy New Riot".

Here is what one of the participants in the action Oleg Vasiliev writes :

“New Year” is celebrated “New Year” - one of the holidays that form an artificial reason for joy and affirming collective identities. But a real holiday can take place only in every separate place, time and man, regardless of formal reasons and institutionalized rituals. Here, at the time when everyone around celebrates the New Year’s onset, the main from public holidays, look at the picture of the “performances” of the person who calls himself the president, calling himself as the president. They are admiringly observing the symbols of state power - for hours beating on the towers of the Kremlin, the anthem and the flag of the state that declared its rights to this territory, we declare another holiday - the festival announced here and now and reminiscent of the eternal experience of human resistance and one specific fact of such resistance that happened here on May 6, 2012.

This, like many other acts of resistance, did not remain unanswered to the authorities that used it for intimidation, for repression, to suppress not only specific people who were on May 6 in Bolotnaya Square, but used it as a convenient reason to suppress everyone.

However, this does not cancel and does not detract from the significance of this, like any other outbreak of freedom and rebellion, which at least temporarily paralyzes the law enforcement officers around and inside us.

We remember and congratulate all those who were injured then, who, due to followed repressions, are now in prison, under house arrest, in forced emigration.

We congratulate each of them on the holiday - everyone on the personal one that they feel now or will be felt in the future. We wish them and to us that they would come out of prisons as soon as possible, get free from house arrest, and the emigrants got the opportunity to return home. We wish them and to us that they return to the inconspicuous, so that they not only be able to leave prisons, but also that the prison could get out of them - and from us.

Freedom, color and joy never are not enough. And therefore - on the holiday!

With the new free swamp.

With a joyful new riot - both here and now, and anywhere and at any moment of the past, present and future! ”