An attempt to hold another far-right rally on Manezhnaya Square was stopped in Moscow

On January 11, 2011, an attempt was thwarted in Moscow holding the second ultra-right rally on Manezhnaya Square, similar to the one staged by right-wing radicals on December 11 last year, and which ended in riots .

Recall that the action was announced by the " December 11 Movement ", which called on all sympathizers to gather again in the square and demand the release of Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, the expulsion of immigrants from Caucasus from Moscow, prosecution of the official representative of the Moscow police department Viktor Biryukov, etc.

The action was scheduled for 19:00, however, by 18:00 the area was cordoned off by police, riot police and soldiers internal troops, and visitors to the shopping center began to gradually withdraw to street. The store closed a few hours early.

Passages were blocked Alexander Garden and Red Square, the entrance to the station is blocked metro station "Okhotny Ryad" from Manezhnaya Square. Law enforcement officers checked the documents of people in the square and detained everyone who presented himself suspicious, first of all - young people in sports jackets and immigrants from the Caucasus.

At about 20:00 the group out of about 30 people still tried to hold a rally, but the police immediately stopped most of them. In total, on January 11, it was detained, according to various estimates, from 50 to 150 people, including Dmitry Demushkin, leader of the ultra-right Slavic Force movement, one of the leaders of the DPNI Vladimir Tor, a member of the Moscow branch of the DPNI Anton Severny, as well as one of the leaders of the "Russian Image" Alexei Mikhailov.

A. Severny was released on December 12, 2010.

On December 13, 2010, the World Court of the Tverskoy District of Moscow sentenced V. Tor under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (disobedience lawful orders of a police officer) to administrative arrest for 15 days. D. Demushkin by the decision of the same court under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was sentenced to three days of arrest for breaking through a double police barriers.

Sources

• Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.
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• The first action of the "December 11 Movement" did not take place // Moscow's comsomolets. 2011. January 11.
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• Special detention center receives Demushkin and Tor // Interfax. 2011. January 13.