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Courts began on the detainees on December 31
About 50 people detained on the eve of the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg spent New Year's Eve in the police. As the activist of Solidarity, Vladimir Volokhonsky, told the Frances.ru, on January 1, the detainees began to be taken to the court, and then the consideration of administrative cases at the place of residence was transferred. All detainees are charged with two articles - 19.3 (disobedience to the requirements of the police) and 20.2 (violation of the order of the mass action) of the Administrative Code ( 
At the end of the agreed rally, mass detentions were also held. Members of the Bureau of Solidarity Boris Nemtsov and Ilya Yashin will spend two days in the police, Olga Shorina, spokeswoman for the movement of the movement of the movement. They were detained after a speech at a agreed rally in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution. According to Shorina, Nemtsov is accused of trying to block Tverskaya Street. The coordinator of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin, also detained on the triumphal, was left in the police at night. In total, several dozen people were detained on the triumphal square.
About 1000 people took part in the opposition rally on the triumphal square. The action began with the speeches of the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva, the leader of the “For Human Rights” movement Leo Ponomarev and the leader of the movement in defense of the Khimki forest, Yevgenia Chirikova. All speakers performed in New Year's caps.
A few hours before the rally, the police blocked most of the triumphal square, in particular, passages along the Tchaikovsky concert hall and the Satire Theater, where supporters of the Strategy-31 organizing committee usually gather for inconsistent promotions. About 70 people were detained on the square, including a member of the Solidarity Bureau, Ilya Yashin, human rights activists Mikhail Krieger and Veniamin Dmitroshkin, as well as Julia Bashinova, one of the applicants of the coordinated rally. They were detained at the exit from the fenced platform where the agreed rally passed, and was marked in a car gut.
The detainees were delivered to the ATS of Tver, Meshchanskoye, Basmanny. Also, about ten people were delivered to the Arbat police department. According to the Grani.ru correspondent, they were forced to take fingerprints, claiming that this is happening as part of an investigation into a criminal case on the fact of riots on Manezhnaya Square on December 11 (without a criminal case, police officers do not have the right to proloscopy of the detainees). The detainees in the Basmanny police department reported that they drew up protocols on an administrative offense for crossing the street in the wrong place.
About 60 people were detained on the evening of December 31 near the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg, where the opposition was held in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution (
The "convulsions of power", an act of political pressure on opponents and a clear lawlessness was called by the detention of Boris Nemtsov, the leader of the RNDS Mikhail Kasyanov. The RNDS leader demanded that Nemtsov and other activists of the opposition and stop their persecution and stop their persecution illegally detained on December 31 in various cities of Russia.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov said that the metropolitan police "will not allow participants in possible unauthorized shares to spoil the holidays on New Year's Eve," and their actions will be suppressed "harshly and decisively." According to him, the Moscow police are still working in an enhanced mode, to which it was transferred after the riots on December 11 on Manezhnaya Square. "In ensuring public order in the central part of the city, an outfit of over 5.5 thousand people will be involved, and in the territory of the whole city - more than 25 thousand employees of the internal affairs bodies," Biryukov said. "Those who try to violate public order or come to a mass event with weapons have every chance to celebrate the New Year in the company of police officers in one of the city police department," he added.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also promised that unauthorized shares in Moscow on New Year's holidays would be harshly suppressed. He called on the opposition to think about the possible consequences of their actions. “I would very much like those who once again going to violate the law to think about the possible consequences of their actions and the same responsibility,” Sobyanin said at an operational meeting on security in Moscow during the New Year holidays. According to him, the position of the metropolitan authorities regarding rallies and processions is "simple and understandable." "To conduct legal measures, all the necessary conditions will be created, unauthorized shares will be harshly suppressed," the mayor of Moscow said.
On November 27, it became known that the Moscow City Hall abandoned the trilateral coordination of the conditions for holding a rally in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution on the Triumphal Square on December 31. This was announced in his blog by the leader of "another Russia" Eduard Limonov. He recalled that together with other representatives of the organizing committee of the Strategy-31, the coordinator of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin and human rights activist Vladimir Bukovsky, offered the city hall to hold tripartite negotiations with the participation of a group of consistent rally on the triumphal-supporters of the leader of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva. Earlier, Alekseeva and other applicants of the coordinated rally Oleg Orlov, Julia Bashinov, Sergey Kanev and Lev Ponomarev supported the idea of a conciliation meeting.
The city hall suggested Limonov, Bukovsky and Kosyakin to hold a rally on Trumphalnaya Square in the morning, or transfer the event to Bolotnaya Square, as well as reduce the number of participants. They refused this proposal. According to the applicants, the morning time is not suitable for the action, since people are used to the fact that it begins at 18.00. The number of participants in the event should not be negotiated at all, they say. The applicants also pointed out that the application of Alekseeva was adopted by the mayor without agreement with them, as required by law.
An application for a promotion with a number of participants up to 1,500 people, together with Lyudmila Alekseeva, was signed by human rights activists Oleg Orlov, Lev Ponomarev, Valery Borschev, Julia Bashinova, leader of the Moscow Branch of the Former Sergey Kanayev, the leader of the Khimki forest, Yevgeny Chirikov, the head of the publication protection fund Aleksey Simonov, the leader of the movement "We" we Dobrookhotov, and also The coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov.
In early November, Limonov proposed a program to overcome a split among the organizers of the strategy-31. According to him, the number of participants in the action should be unlimited, and the rally itself should take place without the massive presence of the police. “20-30 people are quite enough,” Limonov said. “We put forward a number of conditions and offer Lyudmila Alekseeva and those who followed her join us,” Limonov said then.
On October 31, two rallies in the defense of the 31st article of the Constitution were held on the triumphal square ( 
VIDEO ). More than a thousand people gathered for a rally coordinated by the authorities under the auspices of the Moscow Helsinki group, led by Lyudmila Alekseeva, the Movement for Human Rights and the Memorial Society on the Pimit at the Beijing Hotel. About a thousand people from among those who did not accept a compromise with the authorities gathered in the same square from Tverskaya Street.
The Russian opposition traditionally, within the framework of the Strategy-31, holds shares in defense guaranteed by the Constitution of Freedom of Meetings on the 31st. None of these shares were agreed by the Moscow City Hall at the time when the city government was headed by Yuri Luzhkov. In August, it was announced that the triumphant area where the shares were held will be closed for reconstruction, after which it was surrounded by a fence.