The participants in the strategy-31 campaign drawn up protocols

Detention on the triumphal. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru

Oppositionists detained in the Triumphal Square area in Moscow were accused of participating in an unauthorized rally (

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VIDEO ). The detainees delivered to the Moscow police department drew up protocols under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, processing or picket). In the evening, all the detainees were released. Among the detainees were the leader of “other Russia” Eduard Limonov, the coordinators of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin and Sergey Udaltsov, one of the leaders of Solidarity Ilya Yashin and others

In total, 50 opposition activists were detained for strategy-31 shares in Moscow, a representative of another Russia, Alexander Averin, said. At the same time, the official representative of the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Svetlana Serkina, said that only 26 people were detained on the triumphal square.

According to the Grani.ru correspondent from the scene, the number of participants in the action was very difficult to evaluate, since the area was numb by a large number of law enforcement officials than usual. The police pushed journalists to Brest Street and demanded to leave the venue, otherwise threatening the media employees with detentions. According to the correspondent of the faces, several journalists were eventually detained. Citizens, representatives of the press and police accumulated in the square, the police called on people not to stop and go to the subway. Riot police chains combed the square, pushing citizens.

According to Namarsh.ru, the police detained Limonov immediately after his appearance on the triumphal square. Yashin managed to give a minute interview to reporters before his detention. Udaltsov, leaving the metro along with Kosyakin, began to tell reporters about the process of creating a committee of national salvation and plans for the pre -election period. A minute later, police officers attacked them, twisted and dragged into a car carrier. During the detention of Udaltsov, they hit the temple strongly. After the delivery of Yashin was put into a separate camera in the Department of Internal Affairs, taking his shoelaces and a belt from him.

Nadezhda Mityushkina, activists of the "Solidarity" Evgeny Podanovkov, Davydov, Falkovskaya, Semenov and Yurtsev, were also detained. They were delivered to the Hamovniki police department. Also among the detainees are a member of the Federal Political Council of the Solidarity Sergey Davidis, a member of the Moscow Political Council of the movement Anastasia Rybachenko, the activists of the movement Amir Khairullin and Anna Mikhailova, a member of another Russia Tatyana Kadieva and a member of the Group "War" Petr Verzilov.

About 10 oppositionists were also detained, who staged a rally near the Rostix cafe on the opposite of the Triumphal Square to the side of Tverskaya Street. Among them are activist of "solidarity" Serge Konstantinov, civil activist Dmitry Georgievsky and activist of movement in defense of the Khimki forest Pavel Shekhtman. They chanted "Freedom of assembly always and everywhere!" Activists joined the brawl with the police officers who arrived in time, they were not able to detain them immediately, the Grani.ru correspondent reports.

About thirty activists of the opposition were detained in St. Petersburg (

Video faces-TV ). After the first detention, the participants in the strategy-31 action, which was traditionally held at the Gostiny Dvor, made an attempt to march along Nevsky Prospekt towards Isaacievskaya Square, but were blocked by police officers. As a result of the next attempt to break in the direction of Isaac, about 15 activists were detained. Following this, several dozen oppositionists broke through Nevsky towards Fontanka, but were scattered by police officers. Among the detainees in St. Petersburg are the leader of the OGF Olga Kurnosova, Gorotorsi Sergey Chekunov, Igor Chepkasov, Natalya Chernova and Evgeny Pavlenko, as well as one of the organizers of Tamara Vedernikov from the Rot -Front. The police beat the police during the detention of Alexander Kachko, an artist, activist of another Russia, the author of the graffiti on strategy -31. With damage to the ligaments of her hand, she was taken to the hospital.

Strategies-31 in Nizhny Novgorod were attended by the co-chair of the Party of Freedom, the former governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Boris Nemtsov and writer Zakhar Prilepin. The action was agreed with the authorities and passed without detention. According to NIA Nizhny Novgorod , about 100 people took part in it. As Nemtsov said, he specially arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to participate in the rally. "This is a all -Russian action. I should not take part in rallies only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Together with many participants in this rally, I fought to maintain Gorky Square and against the construction of nuclear power plants. Today my mother came to this rally, today she is, as she (Lyudmila) Alekseeva," Nemtsov said.

On May 31, shares in defense of the 31st Articles of the Constitution were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Ryazan, Cherezovts, Voronezh, Penza, Tver, Yaroslavl, Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Murmansk and many other cities. Activists in London and Tel Aviv also came to support the right of citizens to freedom of assembly.