The abyss of misunderstanding

The fight against the "disagreement" was a priority task

“Paper came from the government apparatus at the Ministry of Internal Affairs: the fight against“ disagreements ”is declared a priority direction for the coming months,” the interlocutor in the central apparatus of the ministry told The New Times. What is the meaning of the brutal dispersal of the rally in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution and what the authorities are achieving - tried to understand The New Times
Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with The New Times, the fact of sending such a directive from the government apparatus to the security forces refuted: "This is not true." But a source in the ministry says: “We were familiarized with her, we signed it. The main responsible for execution is a criminal investigation department. So the children with the triumphal Square Moore will not let them relax in the coming months. ” Obviously, not only the threat would be pressed “disagreed”, such instructions should have come to fighters with extremism from the ED center.

Covering operation
The next action in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution this time began two days earlier than the declared deadline. On May 29, Vladimir Putin met in St. Petersburg with the organizers of the charity evening “Little Prince”. The leader of the DDT group Yuri Shevchuk was also invited. “And I finish the following question: on May 31 there will be a“ march of disagreements ”in St. Petersburg. Will he accelerate? " The legendary rocker asked at this meeting. “I hope that in St. Petersburg it will be done in this way, according to the mind: with the right of citizens to express their disagreement with the policy of the authorities on these or another issues,” Putin answered. Some took this replica as the highest resolution.

* * It took Dmitry Peskov's explanation: no need to build illusions, no one allowed anyone to anyone. Others were alert: “Prime Minister Putin, a naive musician Shevchuk, obviously blew a full blizzard in his ears,” said Eduard Limonov, one of the organizers of the action on the triumphal square. Exactly a week before the promotion, on Monday May 24, the head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Viktor Biryukov, synchronously. For experienced people, this was a signal: the authorities are preparing for strict actions, but guilt - if that - they want to dump on the switchmen.

The poet and the king
At that meeting, the premiere weighing the words suddenly pierced. "What is your name, sorry?" - asked the head of the government from Yuri Shevchuk, sitting nearby, whose album "Actress Spring"

* “What is autumn is the sky. The crying sky underfoot ”,“ Poets leave in the last autumn ”or“ Rain, the sky rain filled the sky with a ringing veil ” - the lines from the hits that entered that album. He thundered in 1992-just when the future prime minister served as an official, and not the last, at the City Hall of St. Petersburg. “Before the meeting, the President (Prime Minister) is presented with a folder with documents on the meeting, among which there is a list of all participants indicating the surname, name and patronymic of each of them, as well as a document called“ Surveizing Plan ”, indicating which place this or that participant in the meeting is located,” says the former adviser to Putin’s economy (then president) Andrei Illarion. “The protocol service ensures that the meeting participants take places in strict accordance with the seeding plan.” This time - did not keep track? Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with The New Times, however, offers another version: “He (Putin) (Shevchuk) does not know in person. On the eve of the event, we told him who will be, who is who. He had a seedling scheme, this is traditional, but if you watch the video, you will see that he simply did not have time to see who is sitting where, a good normal conversation began immediately. ” Nevertheless, the prime minister immediately recognized the prime minister - everyone, except for a long time and publicly becoming his political opponent of Shevchuk: “Alisa Brunovna”, “Chulpan Nailevna”, “Oleg Valerianovich”, “Diana Sergeyevna”, “Leah Medzhidovna” - and the Lenya Lenya Yarmolnik, who turned to the actors Putin.

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No in Russian legislation

such a thing as an "unauthorized rally"

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The prime minister was cunning, and when he denied the fact of the preliminary call of participants in the meeting by the employees of his protocol. “Yura, this is a provocation. My assistant could not call you about this, ”Putin said, responding to Rocker's words that a certain assistant prime minister asked him not to disturb the head of government with sharp questions. “On the eve of the planned meeting, an employee of the presidential administration (government apparatus), responsible for organizing a meeting, is necessarily called up with each participant in the preparatory meeting and speaks with him all the issues related to the meeting - from logistics to meaningful,” says Illarionov in his blog. “I misunderstood everything when some official from the presidential administration called me,” the actress of the contemporary theater Leah Akhedzhakova is now lamenting. “This official asked me what I'm going to ask Putin about.” I immediately bristled: "And by what right are you interested in this?"

Sitting out is ashamed
Shares in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution

* “Citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, to hold meetings, rallies and demonstrations, processions and pickets,” the Art. 31 Basic Law of the country. Amendments to this chapter require a special procedure - 3/5 votes of the Federation Council and the State Duma or the convening of the Constitutional Assembly, as follows from Art. 135 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Only eight have passed in Moscow. May 31 was the ninth, and it was not like all the previous ones. On the square to the concert hall. Tchaikovsky, according to various estimates, came from 1 thousand to 2 thousand people, and they were very different people, previously not seen at such events. In addition to the already familiar human rights activists, the leaders of the opposition “solidarity”, supporters of the prohibited NBP Eduard Limonov, nationalists came to the triumphal, deceived equity holders who recently appeared “blue buckets” - people protesting against the lawless of cars with flashing lights on the roads, activists of the Russian motorists, loyal to the Kremlin from the “right business”; There were young ones - there were more noticeably more, and the elderly people - from the student in the T -shirt of the Moscow Spartak with number 31 on the back to veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Among the protesters, the showman Bari Alibasov was seen, and in St. Petersburg, director Kirill Serebrennikov stood on Palace Square, who, back in November 2009, enthusiastically told The New Times about his plans to put on the theatrical stage the novel “Plonol” , written, allegedly, the main opponent of “Disagted” - Vladislav Surkov. Two women slightly over 40, very similar to school teachers, demanded that the policemen in a cordon to observe the constitution every time they grabbed someone in the square and began to drag in a car gut. They may not have suspected that exactly under the same slogan - “observe the constitution” - Soviet dissidents entered the shares at one time.

Strategy-31 in St. Petersburg
"Gift" to the president

On May 31, such shares were held in different cities of Russia: St. Petersburg, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk (see certificate below). But nowhere with the protesters they did not treat as harshly as this time in Moscow. A record number of people were detained on the triumphal: from 120 to 170 people. Representatives of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate announced 152 detainees, the human rights activists counted 143. Moreover, he worked on the area of ​​not familiar riot police, which they instantly instruct the opposition shares: whom to detain, which posters to break first (details about the work of the riot police at The New Times told No. 3 of February 1, 2010 ). The fighters of the 2nd operational regiment of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate “screwed” people, whom even their colleagues in uniform call only “scumbags”. Lieutenant Colonel Kudasov was especially distinguished, who ordered to detain everyone indiscriminately, including journalists with certificates and special cards issued on the eve of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. It is noteworthy that all this-to the numerous cameras of Russian and foreign television journalists-took place exactly two days after the next meeting of the Russian-American Human Rights Commission at the head of the same Surkov and adviser to President Obama Obama Michael McFold and came on the opening day (sic!) Of the Russia-Summit in Rostov-Na-Don, where Dmitry is Dmitry. Medvedev hoped to achieve serious progress in the field of facilitating visa -free entry for Russians to Europe. The European Union, on the other hand, directly links the issue of borders with the problem of observing human rights in Russia. So the security forces could not present the worst gift to the president on this day. Or exactly such an entourage for meeting Medvedev with EU leaders and sought?

"I curse him"

“We were brought to Zamoskvoretsky ATS an hour and a half after the detention. They drove in Avtosak, where it was very stuffy. One woman became ill, was taken away on an ambulance - she had a pressure, ”says Anastasia Rybachenko, a member of the political council of Moscow“ solidarity ”. - We sat for 40 minutes in the courtyard of the Internal Affairs Directorate, then we were offered to return to the bus. We refused - the period of detention expired, and we had no right to keep us longer. We asked us to start registering detention protocols, and we began to force us to drag on the bus. I was dragged on the ground, on a puddle, threw on the bus on the steps, threw a man on top and began to score into the bus with their feet. Then the rest are the same. We barricaded there and said that we would not leave until we are informed of the names, surnames and positions of the people who beat us. After some time, riot police came to us and said that we should begin to register the protocols. Now we have already refused to go out. Then they began to pull us out of the bus by force. They beat about the benches on which we were sitting, hit the bars on the windows. Just at that moment, a hand was broken by the journalist of Gazeta.ru Alexander Artemyev. Most kept until 4 in the morning. " In the Basmann police department, the 84-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Vladimir Burtsev was found in the Basmann branch. In less than a month, a month passed from the pompous celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Victory, as a veteran ended up in the police department, which received three injuries that, after 65 years, the operative not burdened by the intelligence tore off a block with two medals “for courage”, medals “for the defense of Moscow” and “for victory over Germany” simply because the old man came to the triumph square “Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov, Lenin 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division named after Hero of the Soviet Union I. Panfilov”. In the Basmann ATS, a veteran recorded his appeal to Vladimir Putin on the mobile phone of colleagues on the cell: “Today is his (Putin. - The New Times) an act of vandalism was committed, combat awards are torn from my chest. And I curse him because I spilled blood three times so that after 65 years they treat me like that. ” For a few days, 125 thousand people watched the video.

Strategy-31 in Moscow
Dance on the blood

Another of the surprises: Putin, who usually never comments on the opposition shares, through his press secretary, informed the people subordinate to him that he knows about the events on the triumphant square in Moscow, and he knows about the journalist’s broken hand, but-that’s the trouble-the action was not authorized, and therefore, we must understand that the police are all allowed. The Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin reasonably remarks this: “There is no such thing in Russian legislation as“ an unauthorized rally, ”we have the rallies of applicable ones.” The city hall was notified of the impending event, no sanction was “disagreed”. True, those who were broken in autosaks and the ATS remained to Lukin and to the authorized human rights to the authorized person under the government of Moscow, Alexander Music: why didn’t they try to stop the police lawlessness that was happening in the very center of the capital? According to Vladimir Lukin, he still tried to find the responsible for the event, but "the colonels ran away from him." As for Alexander Music, he refused to comment: “I spoke with the participants, organizers and policemen. Whether the human rights were violated, the court establishes /.../ I must see the materials. When I see them, we will discuss this at a meeting of the Public Council at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. ” When asked what materials he needs if people were beaten from the Ombudsmen in front of his eyes, the musician abruptly cut off the conversation: “I don’t want to talk to you” - and hung up.
So far, the 2nd operational regiment of the police pressed the opposition and onlookers, who were not at the good hour near the Tchaikovsky KZ, twenty meters from them Prochrevsky youth movements celebrated the Donor Day. * * World Donor Day is celebrated on June 14. Moreover, they celebrated from 10.00 to 19.00 - full -time with a break for lunch. At first there was a blood collection campaign, which, as reported in Russia, was collected, 30 liters of blood were collected. Then, until the evening, the concert lasted: how the cameras were recorded, at 6 o’clock in the evening, when the action began in defense of the constitution, it was already impossible to donate blood - only to check the blood group. However, supporters of Vladimir Putin do not hide the true goals of their show in the center of the capital. The official press release of Rumol says: “We do not intend to refuse to submit outstanding applications as a method of political struggle.” In other words, they do not at all hide that the day of the donor day on the Triumphal Square is more likely the feasible assistance of the Moscow City Hall, which receives a formal opportunity to refuse the opposition to hold the action: they say, the Kremlin youth reserved an area earlier. “It is necessary to apply for a rally by law 15 days before the event, and the organizers of Strategy-31 on the very first day from the night take a place near the window at the city hall and wait for the discovery,” says Alexander Averin, press secretary of Eduard Limonov. - Previously, conflicts with Rumol and other pro -Kremlin organizations regularly arose, but we were always the first. Now they changed tactics and began to declare their shares not as political actions, but as cultural events. The fact is that in accordance with the order of Luzhkov, the current for 7 years, cultural and mass events can be declared in 45 days. They use this. At the same time, each time we warn the city hall in advance that we will submit an application as the most early deadline permissible by law, but officials give preference to youth organizations. ”
It is not for nothing that in Russian culture there is a saying: "Make a fool to pray to God, he will break his forehead." On May 31, the Apotheosis was the moment when the anthem of Russia began to play from the “donor” scene and under the words “Glory, our Fatherland Free” police officers with a dense chain went to crush the enemies of the Fatherland, rummage their hands, throw them into auto -zaks, where 20–25 people were packed in 10 sq.m., where all windows were closed and 40 degrees.
... July 31 of the "disagreements" will again go to the square. According to The New Times, this time Prochrevskaya youth will not arrange insanity with blood collection. The deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, according to The New Times, developed his own “strategy-31”. The Kremlin youth will now have to meet “disagreed” by their more crowded political rallies, on which the slogans of the opposition like “Russia without Putin” will be drowned out not by the national anthem, but by the sovereign-native chants.

Geography of protest shares on May 31 (city, number of participants, position of power, number of detainees)
Arkhangelsk - 50 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Barnaul - 50 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Vladivostok - 150 people, not authorized. 6 detainees.
Vladimir - 20 people, authorized, there are no detainees.
Volgograd - 30 people, not authorized, there are no detainees.
Voronezh - 150 people, the action is authorized.
Irkutsk - 30 people, agreed, there are no detainees.
Kemerovo - 10 people, not authorized, there are no detainees.
Kirov - 10 people, not authorized, there are no detainees.
Komsomolsk-on-Amur-20 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Krasnodar is a single picket.
Krasnoyarsk - 80 people, agreed, there are no detainees.
Moscow - 1,500 people, not authorized, 170 detainees.
Novocherkassk - the action did not take place.
Obninsk - 200 people, agreed, there are no detainees.
Omsk - 70 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Orenburg - 5 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Rostov - 100 people, not authorized. There are no detainees.
Rostov-on-Don-50 people, not authorized, there are no detainees.
Ryazan is 30 people, agreed, there are no detainees.
St. Petersburg (1)-500 people, not authorized. 50 detainees.
St. Petersburg (2)-not authorized. There are no detainees.
Saratov - 10 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Ufa - 20 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Cherepovets - 9 people, agreed, there are no detainees.
Elista is 10 people, not agreed, there are no detainees.
Yaroslavl - 30 people, authorized, 1 detained.

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