Strength without an amplifier

The Moscow authorities actually disrupted the concert in defense of the Khimkinsky forest (

Video faces-TV ). On Pushkinskaya Square was forbidden to carry sound -integrating equipment. As the correspondent of the faces reports, some musicians were not allowed to the square at all. Meanwhile, according to various estimates, from two to five thousand people gathered on Pushkinskaya Square (

Grani-TV: Interview with rally participants ). The Central Internal Affairs Directorate says that 800 people took part in the action.

According to the leader of the group "The Polite Refusal" of Roman Suslov, he and his colleagues were stopped at the metal fences, since they were supposedly in the additional list of participants in the action. "The authorities and authorities were more organized in this confrontation between the organizers of the concert and the authorities. Well, the honor of them and praise," Suslov said. According to him, "the police have such an order - not to miss musical instruments. And we were simply not allowed. An elegant move."

The leader of the DDT group Yuri Shevchuk performed his songs under the acoustic guitar, instead of a microphone using a megaphone (

Video faces-TV ). An hour after the start of the rally, he complained that he had ripped off his voice. At the rally, the head of the movement in defense of the Khimkinsky forest Yevgeny Chirikov, music critic Artemy Troitsky, leader of the TV group Mikhail Borzykin, the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, State Duma deputy Anton Belyakov, performed at the rally. The action ended with a choral performance of the song "A Christmas tree was born in the forest."

Before starting the action, unknown people tried to prevent the sound technique for the concert. According to one of the activists of the war group "War", Peter Verzilov, on the Suvorov Square two Gazelle with equipment surrounded several motorcyclists in black and motorcycle helmets with closed faces. They jumped from the motorcycles and began to try to break the tires of cars with iron rods.

Before the concert began in the square, the leader of the “For Human Rights” movement, one of the applicants of the rally Lev Ponomarev, was detained. Earlier on New Arbat, the police detained another applicant of the rally by Mikhail Schneider. He, together with a member of the Bureau of the Political Council of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov and a number of other activists were detained during the procession in honor of the Day of the Russian Flag (

Video faces-TV ).

The applicants of the rally-concert in defense of the Khimki forest claimed that the action was agreed by the Moscow Mayoria. The city hall, in turn, said that the action was agreed only in the format of the rally - without musical accompaniment. The statement of the press service of the city hall said that the metropolitan government “completely satisfied” the defender’s application for a rally on Sunday from 17.00 to 20.00 hours with the topic indicated by the organizers-“express attitude to human rights and, in particular, the right to a favorable environment”.

Grani-TV: a rally concert in the defense of the Khimkinsky forest , Yuri Shevchuk: Premiere on Pushkinskaya