"Russian March" in different cities of Russia

On November 4, 2008, rallies and marches were held in various cities of Russia, timed to coincide with the celebration of the "Day of National Unity" and organized by right-wing radical groups, united under the name "Russian March".

The "Russian March" in St. Petersburg was organized by the "Slavic Union". About 100 people gathered at the Oktyabrsky Big Concert Hall and marched in a column along 4th Sovetskaya Street to the Chernyshevsky Garden, where the rally was held. The procession was led by the "high priest of all Slavs Bogumil II " (Vladimir Golyakov) The rally participants were going to adopt “an act on the liberation of the Slavic people from foreign occupation .” Along the way, the walls and benches in the garden were painted with anti-fascist slogans.

The second march, not agreed with the authorities, was about 50 people along Nevsky Prospekt. Young people gathered on Sennaya Square and marched along the carriageway of Sadovaya Street, but the riot police pushed them onto the sidewalks. Coming out on Nevsky Prospekt, the protesters began to "chant nationalist slogans . " At the Kazan Cathedral, police officers detained several participants in the action, including those who led the column.

Between 17:00 and 18:00, a fight broke out between the marchers and anti-fascists near the Moskovskaya metro station. The victims received minor injuries.

In Krasnoyarsk, about 300 people took part in the "Russian March". The march and the rally that followed were organized by the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the DPNI. In addition to residents of the city, the event was attended by activists from Kansk, Abakan, Zheleznogorsk and Zelenogorsk. The march participants gathered in the Sverdlovsk district of Krasnoyarsk near the monument to Alexander Matrosov and, lining up in a column, marched along one of the central streets of the right-bank part of the city to the Yenisei embankment to hold a rally. During the passage of the column, Gladkov Street was blocked for a short time, which was crossed by the marchers. The audience chanted "Russia is everything - the rest is nothing!", "Glory to the nation - death to enemies!", "Krasnoyarsk is a Russian city!", "Russian march!" . Leonid Ikonnikov, head of the local branch of the DPNI, spoke at the rally and said that "at the moment, the enemies of Russia do not need open intervention, that now there are other ways to put pressure on Russia and fight the Russian people. But all the patriots of our country cannot silently look at the ongoing events" . The rally lasted for about an hour; there were no riots or clashes with the police.

In Kirov , the "Russian March" organized by the DPNI gathered about 200 people. The participants of the procession held black flags and banners "for normal immigration legislation", "we unite the strong", "no to the genocide of the Slavs " . "Russia is the Russian land", "Russian is the master of the Russian land", "there is no occupation of the Russian land", "hands off the patriots", etc. Denis Tyukin, leader of the DPNI in Kirov, spoke at the march.

In Blagoveshchensk , the "Russian March" took place on Victory Square near the Arc de Triomphe from 12:00 to 13:00. Several people who arrived from Belogorsk were detained. In total, about 50 people participated in the rally, representatives of the DPNI, the People's Union, the Amur Cossacks, and others.

In Volgograd, the march was held under the slogans "Russians - forward!", "Russian oil! Where is our share?", "Illegal immigration - soil for corruption!" and etc.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the marchers marched along Molodezhny Avenue, after the march a rally was held.

In Chita, the "Russian March" was organized by the local branch of the Union of the Russian People. Members of the Chita RNC with placards and a flag marched through the city center from Decembrists Square through Lenin Square to Revolution Square.

In Samara, the "Russian March" was allowed by the authorities. Those present chanted "Russian power to the Russian people" . Before the start of the march to the monument to the soldiers who died in local wars and military conflicts, a basket of flowers was laid, entwined with the Russian tricolor. The march was held under the Russian state and imperial black-yellow-white flags, with Orthodox icons and banners. The Samara march ended on the city's Theater Square with a brief rally at the monument to Vasily Chapaev.

In Novosibirsk, the "Russian March", which was sanctioned by the city authorities, was attended by about 200 people. About 30 young people with burning torches, shouting anti-fascist slogans, came out to meet the "Russian March" column on Chelyuskintsev Street in the city center. The police tried to prevent a fight, but there were several clashes. After that, the "anti-fascists" fled. Nobody was detained. A representative of the city police department said that "the identity of the young people who tried to prevent the procession, as well as those who led them, is being established . "

In Syktyvkar, the march, which took place on Troitskaya Square in the place "Davpon", gathered about 60 people. Those who gathered performed under the imperial flags and slogans "The North is our frontier", "Glory to Russia!" . (The rally organizers applied to hold the event on Stefanovskaya Square in Syktyvkar and on the square near the central pool and to hold a picket near the Renova CCC, but these applications were rejected).

leader of national patriots from the Frontier of the North organization, and Yevgeny Cheglakov, a representative of the regional branch of the People's Sovereign Party of the Russian Federation, spoke at the rally Aleksey Kolegov , the . which "will be mostly Jews," representatives of ROCOR. At the end of the rally, the organizers announced the programmatic demands of the national patriots. "It seems that the territory is being cleared for the Chinese ," said A. Kolegov. immigration and "propaganda of homosexuality" . The rally ended within an hour. During the event, police officers and riot police were on duty around the perimeter of the square.

in Kaliningrad The "Russian March" did not take place , although Vladimir Levchenko, chairman of the regional branch of the National-Cultural Autonomy of Russians (NCAR), filed a notification with the administration of Kaliningrad about the action. "Representatives of the opposition forces in the region" reported that the event did not take place due to the fact that all potential participants were being monitored by operatives of the Organized Crime Control Department. "Our like-minded people Denis Osnach and Igor Pershin could not leave the house ," said Mikhail Kostyaev, leader of the local branch of the Other Russia coalition.

In Irkutsk, an application for the march was submitted by the Irkutsk department of the Union of the Russian People. About 150 people gathered at the Sports Palace on the central Amurskaya (temporarily Lenin) street and marched towards the monument to Emperor Alexander III. The RNC, the Russian General National Union (RONS), the Russian Brotherhood, the Irkutsk Cossack Army, the Russian National Charitable Foundation, several activists of the NDPR and DPNI participated in the march. The column of marchers was accompanied by police officers, OMON and SOBR. Those who gathered carried a banner with the slogan "Build Russia the Russian way!" , icons, Cossacks carried a portrait of Admiral Kolchak. During the procession, toasts were proclaimed : in honor of the Great Russian People, Great Russia, Minin and Pozharsky, Russian youth, Russian Cossacks, heroes of the White Struggle; . The participants chanted "The Russians are coming!", "Motherland or death!", "Irkutsk is a Russian city!" . A rally was held at the monument, which was opened by the chairman of the GS NRC, a member of the National Council of the RONS A. Turik. A. Novikov, a member of the RONS and RNC, also spoke at the rally. At the end of the rally, demonstration performances by a group of young athletes "Russian Knights" and a concert of a patriotic song took place.

In Vladivostok , activists of the national-patriotic movement held a rally on Korabelnaya Embankment near the S-56 memorial. About 250 people attended the event. Activists of the "Russian Club" and the "Union of Slavs of the Far East" spoke at the rally. The action was also attended by young people from Vladivostok, Artem, Nakhodka and other cities of Primorye. According to the speakers, the purpose of the rally is to demonstrate the unity of the Russian people in upholding national rights and freedoms based on their own culture and national mentality . Those gathered spoke under the slogans "For national unity", "Russians - Russian values ​​​​and goals", "We will return the land to the people", "Russian land - the Russian master", "Russian land - Russian order!", "Well, prince, we will help our native militia to protect Russia from foreigners" . The event was attended by police officers. Earlier, the mayor's office of the city rejected the application for holding the "Russian March".

In Veliky Novgorod, the event was sanctioned by the city authorities. About 100 people took part in the march. The participants marched from the Sadko Hotel on Fedorovsky Creek to the monument to Alexander Nevsky on the Volkhov Embankment, where the rally was held. The participants carried banners "Glory to Russia", "Die for Russia", "Glory to the Russian people", "Russians - forward!", "Ossetia, Russia, Kosovo, Serbia - we are together" . The symbolism of the KRO was visible at the event. The police accompanied the procession along the entire route. The streets were blocked for the passage of the marchers.

In the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), as part of the "Russian March", a procession and a picket were held in front of the building of the district administration. The procession, which was attended by about 100 people, was held under the slogans "Russian, wake up!", "Russian, help the Russian", "Kvachkov - for president, Chubais - for bunk", "In Russia, prices are higher than in America, and salaries lower than in Africa . The protesters carried Russian and imperial flags. Official permission for the event was not received, the organizers were refused on the grounds that "the deadlines for submitting documents were allegedly violated." The procession was attended by supporters of the Military Power Union of Russia, the Union of Cossacks of the Russian Federation and the Communists. In addition, representatives of local Russian organizations of Crimea came from Kerch to participate in the action. After walking several blocks, the procession was stopped by police officers who did not want to let the marchers into the square in front of the administration. The initiative group of the "Russian March" negotiated with the deputies of the head of the administration of Slavyansk and the district prosecutor. As a result, a group of picketers, numbering from 30 to 50 people, was let through to the building of the district administration, where the participants unfurled slogans. The picket continued for several hours and ended without incident. The event was attended by police officers.

In Maykop, the event was organized by the "Union of Slavs of Adygea", with the support of the regional branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party. The organizers called the action "a rally of silence." The protesters said that instead of an honest discussion, there is a suppression of dissent and an accusation of inciting ethnic hatred . About 100 people gathered for the rally. were tied around the faces of those gathered Black ribbons with the slogans "I protest in silence", "I'm learning to be silent" and "Freedom of speech" . Timur Kalakutok, the head of the village of Yablonovsky, spoke at the rally, speaking in defense of the "Union of Slavs of Adygea" , the chairman of the all-Russian public movement "For Human Rights" in the Republic of Armenia V. Darwin, who defended the editor of the newspaper "Zakubanye" , noting that the specific 282 article had already been determined The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which is called "Russian" .

In Voronezh, the organizers of the "Russian March" were denied permission to hold a procession and a rally in the city administration. According to the organizer of the action, Yevgeny Lunev, the authorities referred to the fact that the organizers did not agree with the authorities on changing the route of the procession .

In Kazan , DPNI activists planned to join the column of believers of the Epiphany Cathedral with flags, slogans and symbols of DPNI. "Thus, it was planned to give the procession the character of a" Russian march ", it was also planned to carry out actions of an extremist nature aimed at inciting national, racial and religious hatred" . The organizer, Ilya Umerkaev, was summoned to the prosecutor's office, where he was warned that "he could be prosecuted under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for committing actions aimed at inciting hatred."

In Yekaterinburg and Tula, they refused to hold the "Russian March", postponing the event to another day.

On November 9, the Russian March took place in Tula , which passed from Pervomaiskaya Street to Shevchenko Street. About 300 people took part in the march. The participants chanted "Tula is a Russian city", "To the Russian people - Russian power" and "Down with the Jewish power" . The march was attended by activists of the RONS and the National Union of the Tula region.

Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

Perova A. "Russian march" again did not reach Krasnodar // Kommersant in Rostov-on-Don. 2008. November 5.

Didenko L. "More planted - our credo" // Kommersant in Voronezh. 2008. November 5.

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