Day under Abay, evening with Pushkin. May 8

In the area of ​​the afternoon, all participants in the protest festivities moved to the fountain to pure ponds. Near the monument to Abay Kunanbaeva is a "musical circle". People sang songs, played the guitar, applauded each other.

Near the fountain - “Field kitchen”. There, those who wish could have a bite to eat, drink water and stock up on cookies.

In the region of two hours on pure ponds, Ksenia Sobchak appeared. She arrived with umbrellas and pies. Talked with the participants in the festivities, urged everyone not to provoke the police and left. We will return to her, and she will return to us.

Everything went on with songs and round dances until eight in the evening. Then the first information appeared about the detention of people with white ribbons near the metro pure ponds. Participants in the festivities decided to gather and, in the event of a riot police, move to Pushkinskaya.

OMON quickly appeared. He pushed people to the Pokrovka area, from where everyone went in the direction of Kitay-Gorod. Here they tried to detain the participants in the festivities, but many managed to slip away by courtyards or by the subway. Everyone moved to Pushkinskaya.

In the area of ​​ten in the evening, the protesters were on Pushkinskaya and for some reason obediently entered the Polon Alexander Sergeyevich, prepared at the monument. The Cosmonauts quickly cordoned off the fenced square. New detentions began.

Having scored several auto -zaks, the police began to push people into an underground transition. So everyone was on Tverskaya. Again a cordon, again detention. At some point, the police began to squeeze the protesters to the Kremlin, but quickly realized that they had chosen the wrong direction and moved to a new wave of detentions.

The remaining participants in the protest festivities went to Tverskaya Boulevard in the direction of the Nikitsky Gate. We reached the well-known "Jean-Jacques", turned back and at the TASS building connected with Alexei Navalny , Ksenia Sobchak and the second group of walking rebels.

In less than half an hour, as the protesters again cordoned off. This time, Navalny and Sobchak got into the autozaki. Ilya Ponomarev remained with the walking, who, in the region of eleven o’clock in the evening, began to take people to the Tverskaya area by courtyards.