
During the picket against the Nazi terror on the anniversary of the murder of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova on Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow, tough clashes of the promotion with policemen took place ( 
The police were thrown with snowballs and crowded with metal fences. According to eyewitnesses, representatives of informal youth actively resisted the police. The tear gas was sprayed. At least a thousand people gathered near the monument to Griboedov.
After the start of the clashes, one of the participants in the action, the executive director of the Lev Ponomarev Law for Human Rights, asked the audience to move to the monument. Together with him, Vyacheslav Kozlov, head of public security police, addressed the protesters. He promised that all the detainees on Chistoprudny Boulevard would be allowed to let go if the participants in the action dispersed. After that, the picketers began to diverge.
Earlier it was reported that about 20 people were beaten and detained on Petrovsky Boulevard. The participants in the procession tried to break through the riot police cordon to the picket place in pure ponds.
A picket of memory of Markelov and Baburova on Petrovsky Boulevard gathered about 300 people. Among its participants were representatives of various political movements and human rights activists: the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin, Executive Director of Solidarity Denis Bilunov, Executive Director of the Lev Ponomarev Rights movement. A preliminary agreement, all of them came to the action without political flags and symbols.
The picket participants held stretch marks “Stop the Nazi terror!”, “Russians against fascism”, “They dishonor the hero” and chanted “The authorities-cover, the Nazis-kill!”.
The police notified the audience that the movement from Petrovsky Boulevard to pure ponds will take place in groups of 50 people, accompanied by the police. Several dozens of protesters tried to break through the riot police cordon, lit smoke bombs and launched posters. As a result, they were beaten and detained.
According to unconfirmed reports, all the detainees were delivered to the Tver police department. Article20.org reports on the detention of a member of the Presidential Council to promote the development of civil society and human rights, Sergei Krivenko.
According to the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov, the participants in the procession were detained for violating the rules of pickets.
"The organizers of the promotion with the Moscow government only agreed on the holding of two pickets, but some of the participants during the transition from Petrovsky Boulevard, where the first picket went to the Griboedov monument on clean ponds, where the second picket began at 20.00, tried to provoke police officers, despite the fact that the organizers were warned in advance about the liability of the law," Biryukova Vikratsyukov quotes Biryukov, "Biryukov Vikiovyk .
"Police officers were forced to detain about 20 people who violated the law," the representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate added.
The Moscow City Hall said that the organizers of the action were agreed only by pickets. "The Moscow government warns that only pickets were agreed. The organizers promised the Moscow government, that the transition from one picket to another would be carried out in accordance with the law," the mayor's office said.
The murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova occurred in Moscow on January 19 last year. In November, Nikita Tikhonov and Evgeny Hasis were detained on suspicion of committing a crime. Later Tikhonov showed a confession, saying that Hasis was not involved in the murder.
