Whose side is the government on?

In St. Petersburg, in the apartment of one of the local anti-fascists, the organizer of the sanctioned action in Petrovsky Park “Let's protect the city from fascism,” a real raid was carried out by employees of the local Center for Combating Extremism. The owner of the apartment named Philip, returning home in the evening, saw that the door to his apartment had been cut down, and his three friends who were there were lying face down on the floor. Before this they were interrogated and beaten. The employees of Center “E” let the owner into the apartment and are not letting him out. His comrades, who came to the house with him but were not allowed inside, called the police, but the police, having arrived at the place and spent some time in the apartment, explained to them that the Center for Combating Extremism was conducting investigative actions. Philip is promised that he will “finish the game with his shares.” The question is: whose safety is the local government concerned about in this case?

In recent days, in St. Petersburg there has been a general hunt for representatives of various movements - just not nationalist ones. Immediately after the unauthorized actions on October 31, the leader of the local branch of Kasyanov’s RNDS, Andrei Pivovarov, received 29 days of arrest (immediately for October 31 and August 31, although they already tried to imprison him for August 31, but the decision was cancelled). Local activists of The Other Russia were imprisoned for various periods, from five to 14 days. Georgiy Losev, an activist of the socialist resistance movement named after Pyotr Alekseev, is being monitored almost openly by the same employees of Center “E”.