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On April 23, the Movement in Defense of the Khimki Forest and caring people who sympathized with it organized a public gathering at the site of deforestation for the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway. According to blog reviews, several hundred people attended. It turned out that the number of people gathered significantly influences the behavior of the highway defenders. Unlike previous cases of visiting logging sites, when activists were beaten and detained, this time those gathered managed to first break through the barrier of private security company representatives, and then leave the head of the public security police of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the city district, Colonel Vladimir Tsurif, with nothing, who, like for several days, twisting the laws, he tried to convince activists that their actions were contrary to the law. And this time, no one showed any documents authorizing logging to those gathered. In addition, they discovered that the clearing near the village of Vashutino had been doubled to accommodate the construction of the highway. Freshly cut trunks were found stacked in stacks.

As reported in blogs, one participant in the gathering was beaten - journalist Semyon Kolobaev, who lagged behind the general procession, he was attacked by several people, according to eyewitnesses, these were representatives of the private security company. In addition, those who traveled to Vashutino by car had punctured tires.