Civil society spent the night here

Its participants compare the camp on pure ponds with the Woodstock festival, a guide park and student protests in France of the 60s-in mood, and not in scale. For the third day, “Emerged Citizens” sing songs at the monument to the Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbaev, study his work, sleep in sleeping bags around the fountain and play Frisby on the lawns of purebred boulevard. Publicpost correspondent Evgeny Natelashvili spent the night in the camp on pure ponds, watching how civil society spent the night.

A low elderly man in glasses addresses the professional opposition to Ilya Yashin: "I want to ask you only one question." Yashin, apparently already tired of increased attention, explains that he already wants to go home to sleep and questions later. “I just wanted to see your attitude. Now I see it,” the gray -haired man answered. Ksenia Sobchak (in recent days they are so often seen together that you might think that they are a couple) tries to correct the situation and intervenes. "Yes, I needed only two seconds, and God is already with him. My name is Vladimir Shahijanyan." Yashin apologizes, offers to talk: "You invented this set system (" Solo on the keyboard " - approx. Ed. ). My mother was engaged in it." “I invented a lot of things,” retorts Shahijanyan. “I participated in your birth.” "Dad?" - Ilya jokes. "Why dad? According to my book" 1000 and one question about this "many parents conceived their children." Shahijanyan worried only one question to Yashin: whether it was true at one time hit him on the head. Yashin shows his head, he says, four seams were applied. Sobchak invites Shahijanyan to recording his State Department-2 program, which will be carried out on pure ponds, and on this together with Yashin leaves the boulevard.

Time is already the second hour of the night, about 400 people remained in the camp - the “old -timers” say that there were more than a thousand during the day. I meet a young couple of entrepreneurs - they brought about 30 liters of juice to the camp. “As much as it was, everyone brought it,” Natalya tells me. “We have a small cafe in the city. We are working until late, so we could come now. Apparently, it will not work for a long time, tomorrow again to work.”

The whole provision is unloaded to benches at the monument to Abai Kunanbaev. Here, several young people carefully laid it out and distribute it to the protesters, pour hot tea and monitor the order. One of the activists-19-year-old Nikita, came to Moscow protests from Volgograd.

“They bring quite a lot of food - cookies, sweets, well, everything is nonsense,” the young man explains to me. “It was hot during the day, the girls were treated with ice cream with ice cream.” Nikita in the camp likes, he says that people are pleasant, if anyone drinks, they immediately take it away. He himself does not drink alcohol and does not like those who drink. His parents died 5 years ago "from vodka", as Nikita himself says. Now he is an orphan and lives on the street almost all the time. "I am studying in a professional. When I manage to earn money, I rent housing. And so, I basically wander around the yards." Nikita refers to the "local celebrities" without a pet. "Well, yes, I heard, Sobchak came. Today I was here. I also brought food. I think that there is no point in changing the soap. All these leaders are people who are simply promoting. We are the main thing to achieve common goals."

Activists always have hot tea and coffee. The water is brought sympathetic, and also worn in small barrels from the cafe "Chocolate", which is on Pokrovka. "Some acquaintances through friends agreed with cafes, without problems give us boiling water." Some police officers are also occasionally suitable - for sandwiches and tea.

Time - 3 in the morning. Near the distribution of food a small skirmish - several homeless people came (they often come here), require food. One of them, without any constraint, took a package of juice and began to drink, as they say, from the throat. Activists explain that they do not mind sharing food, if only they behaved humanly. Aggressive strangers take over aggressively configured homeless people.

Several members of movements "Resistance", "Solidarity" and "Workshop of protest actions" self -organized and began to follow the order. The brigade is headed by Igor Bakirov. At the disposal of the radio and flashlights that someone brought here. During our conversation with Bakirov, the work of the squad is just taking place - a bottle of vodka was seen in young people on a bench. Igor politely asks not to drink what a sharp refusal receives: "Why can I not drink vodka in my park?!" After long persuasion and clarification, you have to contact the police. Violators of order are taken out of the camp. The squad is surprisingly closely working with the local police. Igor says that either Nemtsov or Yashin negotiating with Kolokoltsev. Who exactly does not know. "The Astrakhan script is already taking place here, when the police and people begin to get along together."

The voter member Nikolai Belyaev, who was standing nearby, says that he was again called a dictator on Twitter-because of a drunken detainee. "Are you ready for the fact that the police will disperse this camp, as the press secretary of Putin Peskov promised?" I ask Igor. “He can say everything he wants. I don’t have faith in this person. He already promised us to smear the liver on asphalt. Let him try. Then we will come to him and will demand not only Putin’s resignation, but also the resignation of Peskov, so that he will be put on trial for such extremist statements. Let the prosecutor’s office take care of him. Our human rights activists try to prepare the claims. Why is he provoking a provocateur and not? Those who walk today on the street. "

In addition to food and security, a toilet was also organized in the camp. Three cabines of the closets were leased. "We all threw ourselves, collected 15,000 rubles and paid for the toilets for a month. The owner was in shock, for a long time negotiated, but everyone decided." “Have you paid for a month at once?” I am surprised. “Do you already plan to walk here for at least a month?” “But who knows,” Igor shrugs, “how it turns out.”

On the path I meet a local resident Lydia, a middle -aged woman walks the dog before going to bed. “Young people do not bother me here,” says Lydia. “It still seems to me that this is a gathering - Putin’s tricks. But I can invite me to warm up, I live in a three -minute walk. I can only take no more than seven people, I have only seven cups for tea.”

Time - 4 in the morning. In the camp, protesters argue not only about politics - girl’s talk about personal life, discussion of literature, cinema and places of rest in the coming summer are heard here. A group of 9 people plays the Crocodile - the presenter with gestures shows the word that the rest of the game participants must guess. A man of about thirty sits next to a busy group lonely, the player listens. “I came here at one in the morning, on the last train from Balashikha. In the morning I will go to work right away,” he says. In Vladimir, his name is, his wife and child left the city for the May holidays, so he goes to protests alone. On May 6, in Bolotnaya, he received a club on the back, which he did not tell his wife. He says the back is still pampering. "When I went here, I took warm things, water and foam (tourist rug - approx. Ed. ) - I have it cool: thick, double. I will not go to bed. I will simply sit with the people."

People from Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Moscow and Sochi unanimously say that the current leaders do not really care: "The most important thing is that we were able to self -organize themselves here. All together. This is a great achievement." “Our leader is Twitter,” one of the camp participants told me.

After 5:30 in the morning, many protesters begin to move towards the metro. “We will come again,” they say.

After hard to overclock the march of millions on May 6, civil protests continue on the streets of Moscow. At the monument to Abai Kunanbaev on pure ponds, an opposition camp existed for almost a whole week, which was also dispersed by OMON employees. Protesters do not leave the streets of the city.