Events of Russian nationalists on November 4: all-Russian review

In addition to the actions of the ultra-right, held on November 4, 2009 in Moscow , rallies, pickets and processions were planned under the "Russian March" brand in at least 15 Russian cities. Their training was accompanied by mutual squabbles associated with the competition of groups of varying degrees of radicalism. As a result, events under the Russian March brand took place in at least 12 regions of Russia. In three more cases, the ultra-rightists either "appropriated" "foreign" shares, or we still cannot find confirmation of the DPNI information that the shares took place at all.

In St. Petersburg , the DPNI (for three different routes), the Slavic Union and the Slavic Community (probably within the framework of the Russian March coalition, a declarative association of almost 8 dozen ethno-nationalist groups in St. Petersburg) applied for the march.

As a result, DPNI received permission to hold a rally in Polyustrovskiy Park. But the organizers officially declared the march from the Ploshchad Lenina metro station to Polyustrovskiy Park without symbols and slogans.

During the gathering of the participants of the proposed march, the police insisted on taking all those gathered to the place of the rally by bus.

According to the official statistics of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, about 250 people took part in the action (which is quite consistent with the "three buses" used by the police). The ultra-right activists themselves claim 600 participants in the rally, which looks like a clear exaggeration.

Activists of the "Slavic Community" gathered on Senate Square, but quickly dispersed.

As always, the Russian March in St. Petersburg was not without incident: anti-fascists came to the place of the rally with banners "Nationalism in the trash!". They chanted "Fascism kills!" and other slogans. Several ultra-rightists started a fight with anti-fascists, as a result of which riot police detained four anti-fascists.

In the evening of the same day, 10 activists of the St. Petersburg branch of the DPNI were detained for minor administrative offenses, including the head of the CSO DPNI-St. Petersburg Andrey Kuznetsov and the coordinator of the DPNI-St. Petersburg, a member of the National Council of the DPNI Semen Pikhtelev.

In Barnaul, activists of the DPNI and the Union of the Russian People joined the procession in honor of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, declaring it a "Russian march". In addition, according to the statement of the ultra-right, they managed that day, as part of the all-Russian action, to picket the administration and the action under the slogan "Russians have the right", which consisted in the fact that six Nazi skinheads with covered faces were photographed with a banner on which this slogan. In fact, the ultra-rightists in Barnaul failed to carry out independent noticeable actions.

In Vladivostok, an attempt to organize a "Russian March" was made twice - by a coalition of the "Union of Slavs" and the "Russian Club" ("initiative group" K. Lunev, A. Komarov and A. Akimov). On October 20, an application was submitted to the administration of Primorye for holding the "Russian March" along the route from Zharikovskaya Square (stop of transport "Dalzavod") to the Arc de Triomphe on the street. Peter the Great, 6. After it was rejected, the second application was already submitted to the administration of Vladivostok for the route from Zharikovsky Square to the Triumphal Arch on behalf of Konstantin Lunev. Here the rally was agreed, but later K. Lunev refused to hold the event, citing its senselessness in the face of pressure on the political opposition and attempts to use the "Russian March" as a PR "political crooks", under which, judging by the reaction of the "Union of Slavs" , the latter was implied. The reaction of the "SS" was not long in coming: K. Lunev was accused of provocateurism, uncleanliness, etc.

As a result, another picket notification was filed, but it was not satisfied due to lack of time.

However, the gathering of the ultra-right at the triumphal arch did take place. At the appointed time, no more than three dozen Nazi skinheads from Vladivostok, Artyom and Ussuriysk gathered in Sukhanov Square (some of them were drunk, which the organizers of the event interpreted as a “provocation”), and after a short time dispersed under the supervision of the police.

In Volgograd, an administration-sanctioned march marched from the Voroshilov Trade Center along the city's central avenue. Data on the number of participants varies greatly: the police say about 200 participants, right-wing radicals - more than six hundred. According to the video recordings of the procession, we can say that 350-400 people took part in the Volgograd march under the symbols of the "Union of the Russian People" and "Russian Community" Stanislav Terekhov and the Army of the Will of the People Yuri Mukhin. In addition to these organizations, representatives of the DPNI participated in the march, although without their symbols. Moreover, on the eve of the march, DPNI designated Volgograd as a venue for the march not only for local, but also for Astrakhan and Saratov activists.

The column passed along Workers' and Peasants' Street and Lenin Avenue to Lenin Square, after which it turned around and moved back.

Among the slogans chanted by the procession participants were "Russia for the Russians, the Volga region for the Volga!", "As long as we are united, we are invincible" and others.

The Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Volgograd region noted that although there were no excesses during the march, leaflets were pasted along the route of the march with calls not to take part in it.

In Izhevsk , the Russian March took place for the first time. It passed through several streets of the city and ended in the central square. It was attended by about two hundred people. Formally, the organizers of the event were the RONS, the "People's Cathedral" and the "People's Union" (probably referring to a cell of the former party of S. Baburin), and the occasion was the celebration of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. On November 5, official representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church in Udmurtia stated that they had nothing to do with the procession, and that Metropolitan Nikolai of Izhevsk and Udmurtia did not give his blessing.

In Irkutsk, the procession passed from the Palace of Culture to the monument to Alexander III. Formally, the action was organized by the local Union of the Russian People, informally it was advertised by activists of the local branch of the DPNI-Russovet. According to the organizers, the action gathered about 100 people, perhaps this number is exaggerated.

The procession ended with a rally at which Alexander Turik, head of the RNC-Irkutsk, and a certain "representative of the Buryat people" spoke.

On the eve of the march, anti-fascist leaflets were pasted along the route of the column.

In Kirov , a rally was held on Lepse Square. According to the DPNI, the rally gathered 500 people, but according to the photographs, the number of the rally can be estimated at 200-250 people. The protesters chanted xenophobic slogans and raised their hands in a Nazi salute. The symbols of any organizations are not visible in the photographs - only imperial flags. The main slogans of the event are "For sport, for a healthy generation", "We are Russians, we are sober!" and "Pravda=extremism", say that the organizers were most likely the Kirov neo-Nazi straight aggers, who are very active in the city.

In Kursk, the local ultra-rightists, who are under serious pressure from the authorities (let us recall that the leader of the local DPNI cell, Sofya Budnikova, is under investigation under Article 282), failed to coordinate either the march or the rally, although they submitted as many as three notifications.

As a result, the ultra-rightists agreed to meet near the GRINN shopping center (Central Market) and march to the monument to the Mothers of Heroic Warriors who fought in Afghanistan.

According to the ultra-rightists, about 50 people took part in the action, but judging by the photographs, there were no more than two dozen of them, but they apparently still managed to walk along the street, accompanied by police. Whether any slogans were chanted is unknown, but the participants of the action did not have any symbols.

In Krasnodar, the organizers (first of all, the former leader of the local DPNI, Mirovlav Valkovich) were skeptical from the very beginning about the possibility of holding the event. And not only because most of the participants were afraid of any sanctions from the authorities, but also because there were fears that at least a little bit of a substitute number of people would not gather. This, however, did not prevent an active discussion of plans for the Russian March on the Internet: by mid-October, there were about 60 potential marchers from Krasnodar itself, as well as from other cities in the region and Adygea. However, in the end, no approval was received for the march, and potential participants were urged to gather at several points and, if possible, unite to hold a procession, and in the absence of such, "join the festivities."

According to the DPNI, the procession, which was attended by up to 150 people, took place, although Miroslav Valkovich was detained by police for organizing it. According to the version of the Krasnodar Central Internal Affairs Directorate, there was no procession, and those few who were going to take part in it dispersed when they saw the police.

In Krasnoyarsk, a procession and a rally took place from the monument to A. Matrosov along the embankment. The procession was attended by 150 to 200 people under imperial banners. It has traditionally been a consolidated share of local DPNI, RNU and NBP. The rally was led by the brother of the leader of the local branch of the DPNI, Leonid Ikonnikov, Alexander, convicted in the summer for a racist attack. Among the speakers were Andrei Skovorodnikov (NBP), Vitaly Kholod (DPNI).

In Nizhny Novgorod, the march took place along Geroev Avenue in the Moskovsky district of the city (the agreement was obtained only the second time, because the first application filed by DPNI activists was rejected). Until the last moment, the ultra-right feared that the agreement would be withdrawn. For this occasion, a march "along Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street in the form of folk festivals" was planned.

However, the march passed without incident. It was attended by 150-200 people who marched down the street under imperial and DPNI flags, chanting ethnocentric slogans.

In Novgorod the Great procession, in which about 100 people took part, passed from the Rossiya Hotel, along Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street to the Alexander Nevsky embankment to the monument to the prince. Since the procession was not agreed upon, the police asked to remove the symbols (imperial and Russian flags, the flag of the "Russian Image", the "Congress of Russian Communities", armbands with the symbols of the St. Petersburg coalition "Russian March"), which, judging by the photographs, still did not happen .

A rally was held at the monument to the prince demanding better control over the sale and quality of alcohol.

In Novosibirsk, the Russian March, organized by the RONS, went from the railway station square to the Narymsky square. In addition to the RONS, DPNI and the Union of the Russian People took part in the event (neopagan ultra-right groups defiantly refused to participate in the march).

Deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council A. Lyulko, V. Getmanov (both - (RONS) and the head of the Novosibirsk branch of the RNC N. Titov spoke at the rally.

The estimate of the number of participants in the event ranges from 300 (official data) to 800 (data from the ultra-right) people. According to the photographs, the number of participants can be estimated at 500 people.

In Samara, the DPNI-Russovet tried to prepare the Russian March, but on November 2, the group officially refused to hold the event. The official reason for the refusal was references to the provocations of competitors (DPNI Belova, SS, etc.). However, the real reason, apparently, was that DPNI-Russovet could not mobilize those who wanted to join their label.

In Syktyvkar, the events (rally and procession) were organized by Aleksey Kolegov's Frontiers of the North. About 50 people took part in them, anti-migrant slogans were declared. Representatives of the DPNI (Igor Bobretsov), "Retired Patriots of Ust-Sysolsk" (Yuri Kosygin), "Frontiers of the North" (Yuri Avdoshkin, Evgeny Cheglakov (representing the simultaneously disbanded People's Patriotic Party of Russia), Alexei Kolegov) and others spoke at the rally. In addition to the listed organizations, the paraphernalia of the NDPR, the Union of National Revival (the predecessor of the "Frontiers of the North"), was also present at the rally.

At the end of the rally, its participants marched from the Stroitel Palace of Culture, where the Frontiers office is located, to Stefanovskaya Square.

In Tula, the organizer of the procession was the National Union of the Tula Region. The procession was not approved. Far-right activists moved from Pervomaiskaya Street, chanting xenophobic and neo-Nazi slogans, but were stopped at the drama theater by the police, who told the participants to disperse. Part of the marchers, pretending to obey the demands of the police, tried to continue the procession along the street. F. Engels, but was again stopped by the police. The bulk of the participants (estimated number of which ranges from 250 to 400 people) were Nazi skinheads.

One of the organizers of the procession, V. Goryunov, was detained to draw up an administrative protocol. Local media note that the ban on the procession allowed the ultra-right to go not by the usual route (from Pervomayskaya St. to Arts Square), but actually organize a march through the very center of the city.

In addition, according to the ultra-right, the Russian March was also held in Kaliningrad and Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov region). In the first case, where, according to DPNI, there were 50 participants. In the second - about 30 (self-produced far-right), both the townspeople themselves and those who came to him from Rostov-on-Don, Shakhty, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and Belaya Kalitva. However, we have not yet found confirmation of this information.

In Astrakhan, Voronezh, Samara and Tver, for various reasons, it was decided to refuse to hold the event. Nobody came to the planned picketing of the regional administration in Ryazan.

Based on materials from the media, ultra-right Internet resources, op. inf.