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How Red Square will become white
Photo: Reuters On April 1, socially active Muscovites will go to Red Square. The call to take a walk with the Kremlin with white ribbons appeared on Facebook a few days ago. The organizer of the flash mob was the group “We were on Bolotnaya Square and we will come,” and provoked the action of the event of last Sunday.
On March 25, the police detained about 30 people with white ribbons on the square and approaches to it, and administrative violation protocols were drawn up on them. "We believe that this is an example of glaring discrimination - like half a century ago in the southern states of the United States, blacks were not allowed into cafes and buses," the organizers say. “And since this is a fool’s day, let's leave the Moscow police in fools,” the announcement says.
There is no specific time of the action, otherwise there will be detentions, and the area will simply be closed. Everyone who wants to go for a walk in the historical center of Moscow with friends at any time. Now almost seven thousand people have registered on the campaign page . Of these, about four thousand people are sure that they will definitely take part in the action.
Publicpost spoke with the participants in the past protests and found out what they were going to do on Red Square on the day of the fool.
 | Maxim Vitorgan, actor |
For what purpose are you going to go to the White Square campaign? Because I want to go there, exposed with white ribbons. I don't like that some people forbid to do this. It is necessary to somehow indicate the boundaries of the permitted, at least somehow try to push them away. I would go for a walk on Red Square and on any other day. This action is not very connected with those that passed honest elections. This is not the same thing at all. People who voted for Putin can go to promotions with white ribbons. This is just a civil action, there is no uniting idea here. I go there absolutely on my own. I saw a video of how people were detained only because they had white shreds of fabric. It seems to me that this is some kind of bust. So in my country they should not act. |
 | Sergey Parkhomenko, journalist |
For what purpose are you going to go to the White Square campaign? I’ll probably go for a walk, as well as with the aim of checking the police for lice. |
Active participant in protest promotions, member of the Voter League Tatyana Lazareva informed Publicpost by phone that she was not going to go to Red Square this Sunday, citing other plans. The leader of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov promised to write news about the White Square on Twitter, but after this message his microblog was not updated.
Memo "if the police detains you"
The organizers of the flash mob placed on the invitation page Instructions for visitors to Red Square with white ribbons.
"If the police detain you, the employees do not submit, do not show the certificate, do not indicate the reason for the detention, upon arrival in the police department, write a statement of abduction, that in the actions of unidentified persons in clothes similar to the form of police officers, there are signs of a crime under Article 126 (" abduction of a person "), Article 286 (" exceeding official powers " - and sometimes - more It is associated with the use of violence and special equipment) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, ”the memo says.
In any case, it is necessary to demand a certificate of notification for the applied application. The coupon must have a number in the book of registration of reports about incidents (KUSP). According to the law, an audit on this application should be carried out within three days. At the same period, a decision should be made to initiate a criminal case or refusal, to transfer the verification material.
Meanwhile, the press service of Petrovka, 38 Publicpost, reported that they had not heard anything about the impending flash mob and overlap Red Square or they are not going to strengthen safety measures.