Special calendar day

Who, where and why will go on the day of popular unity

November 4 is a special calendar day. This year, the “Russian March” will be held through the streets of Moscow. The company will be compiled by the activists of the Prochrevsky movement "ours". Who, where and why will go on the day of popular unity - recognized The New Times
The main slogan will sound like this: “The Russians have the right!”, This is a programmatic statement from our manifesto, ”said Vladimir Thor, a member of the National Council of DPNI, a member of the National Council of DPNI. - Other slogans: “Moscow is a Russian city!”, “Cherkizon must be destroyed!” And "we will free Russia."

March to the Kremlin?
This year, nationalists are going to go through the Lublin district: many merchants of the destroyed Cherkizov market moved to the local market, and this caused the discontent of local residents. “This will be an attempt to conduct a“ Russian march ”of a new type. Skinheads, football fans - they will come anyway. These are used to fighting with riot police and are not afraid for a long time when the cops load them on buses. However, we want ordinary citizens to join us-let the riot police try to immerse a 50-year-old aunt in a car zak, ”Dmitry Demushkin shares the holder of the Promotion of the Slavic Union.

However, the nationalists hardly have to fight the police. The march, in which up to 2 thousand people should take part, from the Lublino metro station on Pererva Street to the intersection, where the monument to the soldier of the Fatherland was erected, agreed with the authorities. The organizers, representatives of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow and Prefectures have already passed this route, figured out how many police personnel will be involved and even how much metal detectors will be needed at the entrance to the square to avoid the crush. Accustomed not to trust the authorities, the organizers of the march say that in case of an unexpected ban on the action, they have a “plan B”: to gather at the Novokuznetskaya metro station, and go to the Kremlin from there.

Return in 2005
Nationalists were not always lucky for such a courteous attitude of the authorities. Until now, the procession was allowed once, in 2005, when United Russia deprived the holiday on November 7 of the Communists and voted for the state holiday to become the victory of the militias of citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky over Polish interventionists. Nationalists were oriented faster than others. Then Moscow was shocked by crowds of shaven -headed young people in black jackets screaming "Glory to Russia!" And throwing hands in a fascist greeting. In 2006 and 2008, the city hall forbade the Russian March. However, both times the organizers showed themselves competent strategists and replayed the police. In 2006, they gathered at one of the most lively metro stations, and then walked around the city with scattered groups. In 2008, a column of nationalists, unexpectedly for the police, appeared on the Old Arbat, not meeting any resistance. Police reports on the number of detainees only added to the shares of the heroic aura.

An attempt to move to a new format - a march in the form of a rally tested in 2007 - was recognized by the nationalists unsuccessful. The rally has its disadvantages: the speeches there were pronounced such that the ex-leader of the DPNI Alexander Belov received a suspended term under the article “Fruitment of ethnic growth”. The 2007 rally, held on Taras Shevchenko Square, they consider the most unsuccessful action. The Shevchenko embankment is geographically and infrastructurally arranged so that an outsider can only get there by accident. And now everything is returning to the situation of 2005.

Commissars pulled up
This year, Prochrevskaya youth from the Nashi movement was detained from the “Russian march”. Its leaders planned to gather 20 thousand people in Bolotnaya Square and go from there to Vasilievsky descent, promoting the idea that Russian people are anyone who has a Russian passport. In the final there is a festive concert with the participation of those stars of the screen and pop stars who confirm the thesis of “ours” with their surnames: Tina Kandelaki, Mikhail Galustyan, Anatoly Wasserman. The organizers of the action quite seriously said that they want to intercept the Russian March brand from nationalists. In the DPNI they laughed at this idea, but just in case warned that if their “Russian march” is banned, the shaft -headed will go to visit the action to “ours”. “Talk to them about the nature of Russian nationalism,” Dmitry Demushkin dreamed. The threat looked real: mass shares of “ours” are an ideal place for provocations. Shout: “Russia for Russians”? Why not.

"Ours" moved
The scandal seems to have been avoided. The procession called “Our Russian March” is still in the program of the state holidays, but the concert received another and quite impersonal name “All of its own”. And the event from the walls of the Kremlin was moved to the very embankment of Shevchenko, where random passers -by do not fall. “We just consulted and decided that it would be better,” said Maria Kislitsyna, who oversees the tolerance programs, the commissioner of “ours”. In the DPNI they offer another version: “The leadership of“ ours ”was called to the presidential administration, where they forbidden to use the phrase“ Russian March ”, and at the same time removed the action away from the Kremlin,” says Vladimir Thor.

Prochrevskaya youth already tried to fight the nationalists in the public field in 2007-2008, but it turned out not too convincing. Then “ours” stretched a multi -meter “blanket of the world”, “locals” drove round round dances for the Motorists blocked for motorists, Sakharov Avenue. “The Young Guard of United Russia” in 2007 simply limited itself to the slogan “I - for” and portraits of Vladimir Putin. And "Glory to Russia!" Then they shouted that Alexander Belov, that the ex-leader of the “Young Guard” Ivan Demidov.

“We have the freedom of assembly for all, and if there is nothing illegal in the notification, the action must be allowed,” Galina Kozhevnikova from the Human Rights Center recalls. - Only now the one who made the day of popular unity by the state holiday has committed a terrible stupidity. The society was given a powerful Xenophobic message, the most radical slogans turned out to be in demand. ”