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Swamp. Further everywhere ...
Report from the streets and Square of Moscow
1500 (plus or minus) detentions, 79 victims, of which 29 police officers; 10 - Politicals serving a term of 3 to 15 days, a criminal case “on the facts of a call for riots”; 865 thousand rubles collected through the Internet to pay for the services of lawyers who helped those who sat in the cells of the internal affairs departments throughout Moscow, and those hundreds who, according to different articles (participation in unauthorized shares, disobedience of the police, etc.) awaits the vessels in the near future - excited from 350 to 400 administrative cases; The Mobile Maidan, who roamed along the capital's streets and squares, many times cleaned by riot police and sinked to pure ponds under the name “Occupyabay”, promises of Putin’s press secretary “to smear the liver on asphalt” and “disperse” this same Maidan-all this together with the inauguration of the new president was in some incredible way in some incredible way A week that began with clashes with the police at the “Million Mill of Honest Elections” on May 6, the day before Putin's climbing to the Kremlin, and ended with a “control walk” along the streets of Moscow of the writers. However, God knows how and how this week will end and the following will begin - The New Times all these days and nights conducted and maintains a direct report from the streets and squares of the resisting capital 
“Put on a white ribbon, do it for me, believe me, this is not a condom,” Ksenia persuaded Ksenia Kremlin political scientist Sergei Markov in the evening, last Thursday, in the square on pure ponds, near the monument to the Kazakh poet and enlightener Abay Kunanbaeva, who gave the name hettheg, who took the first place in the tops tightly in the tops Russian -speaking Twitter - #Occupyabay. “Who wants to enter the Agitation group, raise your hands,” the young man asked a little in twenty on the path of the same square. “Alexei Navalny is a traitor to his homeland,” Markov was excited: at that time he was serving 15 days in a special projector No. 1 and was preparing for new meetings with an investigator in the criminal case “on the facts of calling for riots”, which was opened after the events in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6 (read on page 24). “To whom tea, hot tea,” the young man called to the right of the fountain, who stood with three more colleagues in the Maidan at an impromptu table (wooden board), on which pies, sugar, etc. were laid out. (photo on page 12). 
"Where are the offships from?" - asked The New Times. “They themselves collected 15 thousand, bought it themselves,” the seller replied. “There is no need to drink beer here,” two students explained by two students in appearance, seeing them outside the boulevard. "Putin is a thief!" - shouted a tall, thin young man standing in a circle in front of the fountain: an “open microphone” worked here - without a microphone and all other soundaging, which would qualify the conversation as an “unauthorized rally”. “Without slogans! A riot police listens, ”the other young man of the same 25+ immediately broke him and pointed to a white van without any inscriptions with two roof cameras, standing nearby. (Several buses with police officers stood on the left and to the right of the boulevard.) “Special Machine of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” a colleague said: a young man sitting on the roof of a van question: “Who are you?” - He answered: "Why do you need to know this?" There were also three toilet booths, the owner of which, however, by the night of Thursday, they had taken them - the district authorities said, told them; They paid for them, also letting the hat in a circle, an hour later they were replaced by others. “But they say, the opposition cannot organize anything,” Sobchak wrote on her twitter (and a little later she: “We agreed with the toilets, it remains to agree with Putin”). There was also a generator bought by a kind person, from which the laptops and iPhones were charged, there were brushes with garbage neatly folded in the corner of the boulevard. “So that the authorities do not close us for dirt in a public place,” explained volunteers who selected plastic cups and sweeping cigarette butts. Actually, there was a lot of what we watched on the night of May 7 to 8 at Kitay-Gorod, on the site in front of the monument to the heroes of Plevna. Then Alexey Navalny in 15 minutes raised 14 thousand rubles for foam mats on which it was possible to sit; And the food to the “mobile Maidan”-sandwiches and water, as well as blankets and warm clothes all night were brought to people who preferred not to call themselves-either a lady-adovat, then a guy named Sasha, then another, without a name. But then Navalny and Udaltsov was detained, but today they did not detain anyone, and there were no obvious leaders on the “Okopayabai”. Ilya Yashin, Tatyana Lazareva, Mikhail Shats, Irina Yasina, already mentioned by Ksenia Sobchak, Boris Nemtsov were, of course, the centers of attraction due to the recognition of persons. But the leaders here were anyone and everyone. “We began to organize better” *** that has already become a traditional allusion to the words of Sveta from Ivanov: “We began to dress better.” - The New Times correspondent heard this joke on the night of May 8, and it seems that it became not just a meme - the main thing that distinguishes the “white week” from everything that was before her. And this "white week" began so.
Two worlds
“The solemn ceremony of taking office of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin ”on May 7 was listed in the broadcasting net of five federal television channels at once: the first,“ Russia-1 ”, TV center, NTV and 5 channels. Only the rain TV channel took two pictures at once: the official from the Kremlin and the other - what happened at that moment on the streets of the capital.
May 7. Pushkinskaya Square
“The decision was made in the course of when it became clear that we could not talk about one event and hut another,” Mikhail Zygar, editor -in -chief of rain, told The New Times. - At 11.30, the broadcast began, dedicated to the inauguration, after literally ten minutes it became clear that in the city, continuing the on the eve of the “millions” on Yakimanka and Bolotnaya, the opposition was dispersed. At about 11.45, when Putin’s motorcade drove from the White House through the deserted Moscow to the Kremlin, we turned on two windows: the official picture from the Kremlin was from the first channel, the picture from the streets provided seven of our correspondents. ”
May 7. Vladimir Putin's motorcade on the way to the Kremlin
Two hours earlier, when cars with flashing lights delivered guests to the Kremlin, exactly on the contrary, at the National Hotel, several dozen Muscovites gathered: not to stroke - to protest. Access to the carriageway on both sides of Tverskaya street was limited by neat metal white fences with the inscription "ATC TsAO". The Manezhnaya Square, where the opposition were originally planning to gather, was closed on all sides by the same metal barriers. When there were too many people at National, riot police went on the attack. At the same time, to the doors of The Ritz-Carlton Moscow located in the neighborhood of the hotel, the motorcade of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who flew to congratulate his friend Vladimir on his office. "The Chmoshnik came to congratulate the chmoshnik!" And "Get from here!" - they screamed from the crowd, but Berlusconi did not feel aggression, on the contrary, took it for the cordiality of Muscovites and warmly waved his hand.
May 7. Big Kremlin Palace, Vladimir Putin takes the oath
OMON pushed the opposition to the central telegraph, where they were met by activists of the Prochrevsky movement “Ours” with posters “Putin loves everyone”. At that moment, the outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev left his Kremlin residence, drove along Cathedral Square, accepted the calculation of the Kremlin regiment and rose to the Great Kremlin Palace on the Red Porop.
At the same time, Vladimir Putin's motorcade left the government of the government. He drove around the new Arbat, turned into Gogolevsky Boulevard, and past the Cathedral of Christ the Savior went to the Kremlin embankment - not a single person met him on the path of the motorcade, except for the police trumping along the sidelines. Putin (or his political strategists) chose loneliness for himself: the president without a people, the king without stinks, the Messiah for himself.
May 7. Detention at the cafe "Jean-Jacques" on Nikitsky Boulevard *
Muscovites, who wanted to look at the motorcade, at that very moment began to detain riot police on Nikitsky Boulevard. “I consider one of the important achievements the broad participation of citizens in political life,” Dmitry Medvedev said, saying goodbye. “It is fundamentally important that the power itself has become more open to dialogue and for cooperation.” "
Vladimir Putin: “I swear in the exercise of the president’s powers to respect and protect the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, to observe and protect the Constitution”
”At 12.07, Vladimir Putin (a mask, who did not express his eyes, not a single smile-as if he had read an oath-the history of his illness) laid his right hand on the Constitution of the Russian Federation:“ I swear in the exercise of the president’s authority to respect and protect the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen, to observe and protect the Constitution. ”At this very moment, the rustle fighters clenched the Cafe Jean-Jacques. Boris Nemtsov’s politicians who were sitting there were twisted by Nikitsky Boulevard (“I was first tanned by clubs,” said the Nemtsov Autosak, for whom this was the second detention: 18 hours from the previous one), the journalist of Alexander Ryklin, the poet of Lev Rubinstein, the writer and Columon The New Times The editor of the Brani.ru Internet portal Vladimir Korsunsky is one of the riot police (after his request to turn his shoulder) showed how to break his hand-pressed and broke the brush. Part of the landscape of the center of Moscow. “A new free type of transport appeared in the capital, which allows you to move without traffic jams,” the Kremlinrussia autozaki, ”the Internet-star jokes joked, who tested this transport on themselves. ... And the Inauguration day continued with a banquet in the George Hall of the Kremlin: 20 covered tables, about 30 people at each. “The snack was good,” one of the participants in the gatherings shared. “But billionaires have better corporate parties.” “A sterlet under a black caviar sauce, crab phalanges in karamel, medallions from lobsters” - it listed in the menu menu, which flowed to journalists two days before the celebration. Putin made a short speech. “He said something completely ordinary, I didn’t even remember what exactly,” the interlocutor of The New Times explained. “He clearly feels not at ease,” said another source (for our reasons, which is obvious in our overall reasons, everyone spoke on conditions of anonymity). The next day, May 8, speaking to the deputies who had just approved Dmitry Medvedev as chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation *** 299 - for the factions of United Russia and the LDPR plus 4 Socialist -Revolutionaries; 144 - Against: the Communist Party and “Fair Russia” a minus of the defectors., Putin could not restrain himself at all: evil dug up at the deputies who voted against the younger one according to the tandem. And to say - it’s hard: tens of thousands of people in the city center, despite the batons of riot police, have already been chanted for a day - and this was shown by television companies around the world: “Russia without Putin!” However, it was good: in the hockey match, which was held in the Ice Sports Palace on the Khodynsky field in the evening of May 7 (after the banquet), the team of “fans for 40” played against the team of Russian hockey legends, Putin scored two washers, and Vyacheslav Fetisov, in the past that very legend of CSKA and NHL, not one. “You have seen a controlled democracy, a guided hockey is never before,” commented on a visiting foreigner this match for colleague Olga Bychkova from Echo of Moscow. In China-Gorod, unlimited “festivities” began.
Yanychars of power
“The invaders! Close! You live on the money of taxpayers! ” - the indignant townspeople shouted in the riot police in a cordon, when on May 6 they were supplanted from Bolotnaya Square. “What other money, for two months they hold the bonus,” one of the fighters answered tiredly. The next day, in the evening of May 7, during “festivities” between Kitay-Gorod and pure ponds, another riot police complained: “We have been working for 21 hours. When you go from China to clean and vice versa, we catch you by bus and sleep at this time. There is no longer any forces. ”
May 7. Detention at the monument to the heroes of Plevna
According to the results of clashes at the Bolotnaya Ministry of Internal Affairs, it announced 29 wounded fighters. These were mainly employees of the Moscow and Chelyabinsk riot police. OMONS from Bashkiria worked on China-Gorod. In total, fighters from the regions of all Central Russia were brought to Moscow: Bryansk, Tula, Tambov, Tver, Smolensk, Chuvashia. “Muscovites would not beat people like that,” the head of the independent police union Mikhail Pashkin is sure. - For this, the regions are taken. However, even the Bashkirs or Chuvash would not be so indicatively cruel, if there were no teams from above: at least from bells, but rather from Nurgaliev himself. ” According to some reports, the actions of the security forces during the “Million Marsh” in Bolotnaya Square were coordinated by Deputy Minister of the Interior Igor Aleshin.
May 7. Kitay-Gorod *
Nikolai, a fighter of the Chelyabinsk riot police, in a conversation with The New Times, said that on the way to Moscow, senior officers pumped up his subordinates: “We were told that radicals were going to the streets, that their task was to mix power and return the country to the chaos of the 90s. Everyone remembers how bad it was then, and none of my colleagues wants to return there. ”
“The regions were pulled out because no one could fully predict the number of protests,” says Andrei, the senior lieutenant of the Moscow riot police. “In addition, after the December and February actions in Moscow, our composition turned out to be, as Lenin would say, it was very patagen: both fighters and officers saw that tens of thousands of ordinary Muscovites went to the street, and it is clear that the Americans could not pay each of them.” "
OMON fighter: “We were told that radicals are going to the streets, that their task is to remove power and return the country to the chaos of the 90s”
"Obviously, it really took place." Who to take? There are ordinary people, I won’t, "said, as eyewitnesses seemed to write on blogs, one of the riot police on his boss during the cleansing of the" mobile Maidan "on Pushkinskaya Square on May 8. We can’t confirm this story: it was not possible to find an OMON employee in the Moscow detachment, but they didn’t confirm it either. But the media and the media and the media and the media Similar stories are walking, and the publisher and founder of Russia for all, Viktor Bondarenko, even proposed to create a fund for helping police officers “dismissed for non-fulfillment of criminal orders of Kholuev-Kholuev-Kholuevir,” he wrote: “If Olya Romanova undertakes to manage such a fund, I introduce 500 thousand rubles to assist special services workers for the implementation of the articles. The Constitution of the Russian Federation, by the way, will at the same time help the guarantor of the Constitution to fulfill the oath given to the people. ”
White Maidan
Now it is difficult to determine why or by the call of whom it began. On the evening of May 6, when several hundred detainees were already delivered to the departments of the internal affairs, and their heads were bandaged in hospitals and houses when, on the streets and lanes of Zamoskvorechye riot police, he finally stopped chasing the participants of the Millions Millions, someone suggested: “Tomorrow we are going to Manezhnaya Square.” Gathered - dispersed. Gathered on Nikitsky Boulevard. Dispersed. Further OMON “screwed” people on Tversky Boulevard, on Pushkinskaya Square, in pure ponds, by the evening, when it was already dark, they moved to the monument to the heroes of the Plevna on China-Gorod. At midnight, Alexei Navalny appeared there, followed by the leader of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov. Activist of the Civil Organization “Voice of Ufa” Kirill Mikhailov (@reggamortis1) began to conduct a direct Internet broadcast using the Unistream program, which was written during the “Arab Spring”. People read messages on the social networks Twitter and Facebook, watched the broadcast (at the same time 10-15 thousand people) and, despite the rain and literally occupied by internal troops, the police and special forces Moscow, rose from the sofas, came off from the screens of TVs and computers and went to the square. By the middle of the night of May 8, about 1 thousand people gathered in front of the monument to the heroes of the Plevna. Navalny climbed the steps and said: “We don’t resist, they will ask you to leave - we will leave: there are many squares in Moscow.” They asked: they let the watering machine, behind it - riot police. “We follow the rules,” Navalny said, and a demonstration of total fulfillment of the law has become the hallmark of the Mobile Maidan. Aggression, breaking through in Bolotnaya, as it did not happen: the emphasized politeness of protest actions of December and February suddenly returned. Crossing the road to Maroseyka and Pokrovka, a crowd of hundreds of people (according to various sources, on the night of May 7 to 8 “walked” from 300 to 1 thousand people) patiently expected a green light, and those who went to the roadway were strictly pulled. “Carefully: reinforcement sticks out of the asphalt, do not stumble,” people said in a chain when riot police drove people from Kitay-Gorod to pure ponds. This seemed to impress law enforcement officers. “If you do not violate the rules, we will not interfere with you,” said the nameless colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, when the Maidan returned to the monument opposite the Polytechnic Museum. I wanted to believe, although there were parked buses with special forces on the road. For minutes later, riot police suddenly cut the crowd and grabbed Sergei Udaltsov out of it. “A minute later we will let him go,” the same colonel of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate said to one of the authors of these lines. Five minutes later - again a throw of special forces, and now they are rapidly starting to Navalny. Reasons? “Violation of Article 20 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of an unauthorized rally),” said Major Alexander Klyuyev. “Major of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate,” he said, but refused to show the documents, the colonel, meanwhile, obeyed him. This lies: “We will not touch you” and then riot police, batons and detention were repeated in the following days, on May 8 and 9: on the Bronnaya, on the Patriarchs (here for the third time Sergey Udaltsov, who barely got out of the car, was detained - after which he received from the peace of the Presnensky district court for 15 days), on a passionate boulevard, in the area of the Nickname, in the square. Near the Barrikadnaya metro station, where at dawn of Victory Day, sitting on a bench was detained and endlessly repeating, like a mantra: “Do not resist!” - Alexey Navalny. The magistrate of the Krasnopresnensky court, Irina Zubova, sentenced him to - 15 days of administrative detention at 19.00 on May 9 - exactly at the moment when the whole country froze in a minute of silence in the fighting in the fight against fascism - with a regime, which made lawlessness and violence with its own law.
This week demonstrated the abyss - the gap between the government and the new civil society again. 
“This is very important: not to sit at home in front of Telik/iPad, but to help everyone and to himself,” Navalny wrote on May 8 in his living magazine. “Bring the raincoats, something that you can sit/lie on, rugs, hot tea, food, something for entertainment (ball, badminton, musical instruments (Bango, we need gangjo!)”.
Bangjo, it seems, did not even bring it, but there was enough for everything else, wherever the Mobile Maidan gathered. “Be sure to take the napkins,” said the man who handed out the sandwiches at night on the patriarchal ponds. “And if you need water, then contact that girl in the cap.” 
About what is still missing, people reported through Twitter and Facebook. So, one girl was brought to Pushkinskaya Square, coughing and other medicines were brought up. The already mentioned blogger Kirill Mikhailov, who wrote on the third night of his Internet broadcasts in the microblog that he was terribly frozen, a completely unfamiliar woman brought a bag of warm clothes to the Boulevard at the Nikitsky Gate. Dozens of people transported food, water, reading for those who were sitting in the cells of the internal affairs departments clogged. Shocked by the abundance of the Basmannaya OTS on duty said to one of the volunteers: "You forgot toilet paper." The young man turned around, disappeared for about 20 minutes, then returned with a package of hygiene napkins.
Maxim Katz, the municipal deputy of the Schukino district, organized the Coordinating Center for Assistance to the detainees: together with other volunteers, he called on the phone, phoned the lawyer offices of the capital, agreed with two dozen lawyers, opened a Yandex-wallet, to which all sympatels could send money to pay for legal assistance. “For three days we raised 865 thousand rubles,” said Katz The New Times. “So far, they spent 581 thousand rubles on lawyers.” 
On May 9, when the police for the first time did not detain anyone, people took on the role of law enforcement agencies. When on pure ponds a drunken young man tried to climb on a monument to the poet Abai Kunanbaev to tie a white tape on him, activists helped him go down and sent to the subway. "What will be the actions of the authorities in relation to protesters in pure ponds?" - asked the journalist Oleg Kashin acting Press Secretary of the Prime Minister Dmit- Peskov. Answer: "We will act like in Europe." - "How exactly?" - the journalist specified. “We will disperse,” the poster magazine reports, where an interview with an official will be published.
Bolotnaya-2
The main question of the past week: by whose fault, the peace procession in Yakimanka ended not a rally in Bolotnaya Square, but with clashes with riot police? “We walked along Yakimanka for an hour and a half,” recalls political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin. -Somewhere at 17.30, people stopped in front of a small stone bridge. It was not clear why the cork formed. I saw that the marsh square is filled, on the other side of the obvid canal there are also people, the Luzhkov bridge is filled and it is not visible where the scene is. People began to get nervous and asked each other: “Where are the organizers? Maybe they were taken away? " "
Dmitry Peskov: "We will act like in Europe." - "How exactly?" - the journalist specified. "We will disperse"
“When the column in which I went along with the organizers of the rally went to Bolotnaya,” the politician Alexei Navalny told The New Times, “we saw that the square was closed. The swamp square is almost filled, and about 50 thousand people who are not entered into the narrow space for entering the embankment. The situation was closed, swamp square It was obvious that the crush would happen, so we made an operational decision not to go on and demand that the police execute the placement scheme that was approved - open the square and the passage to it, and then sat on the asphalt. ”
Confrontation
“The negotiators between us and the police were the deputies of Gennady and Dmitry Gudkov,” recalls the leader of “solidarity” Boris Nemtsov. “The police chiefs promised them that they would open the square.” As the State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov told The New Times, negotiations went to find a compromise option, there were only five to seven minutes left, and both sides would have agreed. “The city hall was ready to open the square, the deputy mayor Gorbenko and the head of the Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for interaction with civil society institutions Viktor Biryukov were on the square,” says Gudkov. 
Viktor Biryukov told The New Times that "he did not conduct any negotiations with Gudkov." “I asked him to try to convince Udaltsov to proceed to the place where the organizers, along with the mayor, determined the venue of the rally,” Biryukov said.
“The leadership of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate began panic negotiations with us through Gudkov,” Alexei Navalny sets out his version of events. -They proposed to shift the cordon by two to three meters, but we insisted that they should open the passage completely. The negotiations ended on this. In the part of the column where we were, nurses began to appear. They climbed to us with video cameras, shouted: "Why did you stick a protest?" Some people reacted nervously to them, someone tried to beat them. The movement began, and everyone had to get up from the asphalt. Further on the left flank, some people began to push towards the barrier of the riot police, this crush grew into a fight. ” 
Boris Nemtsov says that when they stopped a sedentary strike and were ready to move on, strong guys similar to football fans appeared next to them. They called for breaking the riot police, but they themselves did not tear forward, but pushed people to riot police. “I turned out to be between them and riot police,” the politician recalls. - Honestly, it smelled with a walker and death. Next to me stood a thin, smart guy. His eyes rolled up, his lips turned blue, and he told me: "Nemtsov, save me, I will die now." I grabbed him and began to pull him out of the crowd. Then I saw how riot police tanned the people with batons, gas went, and we decided to urgently take people away. Let's go to the stage: ahead of daring, Navalny, then I am. ”
Sergey Udaltsov first approached the stage. The police have already turned off the equipment, two megaphones were given the leader of the “Left Front”, but he did not have time to say anything - he was detained. Navalny was taken on the way to the stage. “I didn’t have time to get there,” Boris Nemtsov recalls. - The riot police said to me: "Come from here, now they’ll be fussed." I climbed onto the stairs used by television operators, and turned to people ”: Nemtsov was twisted on this staircase - he ended up in the same car Zakak with Udaltsov and Navalny. They were taken to the Yakimanka police department, and from there to the court, which awarded them fines of 1000 rubles.
Who is to blame?
Whose fault did not take place a rally? Due to the fault of its organizers, as some civil activists and representatives of the authorities, or through the fault of the police, as the applicants of the rally say?
“I arrived at the stage two hours before the start of the procession in Yakimanka. I immediately had the feeling that the police were behaving somehow strange, ”Nadezhda Mityushkina, the rally applicant from“ solidarity ”, told The New Times. -I felt some confusion. We set the scene, and we were informed that the procession had begun. People began to approach, but there were no speakers. I released the Rabfak group on stage, then a deputy of one of the regional municipal meetings spoke. It was already 17.30, but the leaders of the opposition did not come. " 
After some time, Mityushkina was reported about clashes in the square in front of the “drummer”. “Soon, the police lieutenant colonel, with whom I usually work at rallies, said that we violated the rally and the police stops the event,” continues Mityushkina. “In my opinion, the police received an order to make the rally not take place.”
On the small Stone Bridge and in the square in front of the Cinema "Drummer" there were hundreds of journalists with cameras and cameras. On the frames published on the Internet, you can clearly see how riot police pull people out of the crowd, dragged them on the ground, beat them with batons already lying, dragging young girls and women. At the correspondent of the rain television channel, Vladimir Romensky, one of the police officers pulled out an iPhone from his hands and threw it into the river. By that time, however, several riot police swam there. “Usually riot police are detaining people who chant something, this time they ran into the crowd and grabbed the first one to come across,” says Anti-Fascist Alexei Gaskarov. - They also cut off an eyebrow when they detained people: they tried to get on the head. The police almost immediately began to impede the shares in every possible way - in the end, it resulted in a massacre. ”
“When unknown people in masks tried to break through the police cordon, the wall went to the wall,” says deputy Gennady Gudkov. “I don't know who it was.” We need to watch the video. Maybe anarchists. Maybe someone else. There was bitterness from riot police, but when bottles, stones are thrown into you, it is difficult to figure out who is right, who is to blame. ” 
Human rights activist Andrei Babushkin says that for unknown reasons, the police were not able to detain provocateurs. “Instead of them, random people were planted in autozaks,” the human rights activist claims. “It was established that unknown people penetrated the crowd, shouted provocative slogans, pushed people to the police, and then moved back.”
Journalist Alexander Podrabinek is convinced that both sides were interested in the clash: “It seems to me that the police officer was given an order to make the rally not, and some participants were tired of the aimlessness of such meetings: how much you can repeat the same thing. I would not even condemn those people who were ready to make a skirmish with the police, only this should be said to the people whom they led behind. ”
The TV presenter and member of the Public Chamber, Nikolai Svanidze, says that only the tank division could break through to the Kremlin: such cordons were installed on a large stone bridge. “In what happened on May 6, both are to blame. They won the radicals from both sides, ”the TV presenter is sure. - But first of all, the responsibility lies with the authorities: she had to take care of the safety of people. From the police, there was clearly a willingness to use force, but its limits were not indicated. The next day we saw an increase in radicals, when we cleaned the city in full, pulled out people from the cafe, and detained passers -by. ”
The police and the city hall in riots in Bolotnaya Square blame the organizers of the Million Marshist. Olga Kostina, the head of the public council of the public council, also call them provocateurs: “The square was not discovered because another place of the passage was agreed, in winter the corridor was wider, because there were more participants. All these conversations about what was not allowed into the square, in favor of the poor. They were not going to go there. Sobchak, for example, wrote that she knew what would happen, because she did not go. "
It is curious that everyone who says that the opposition planned a breakthrough to the Kremlin and a clash with the police, they refer to the blog of Ksenia Sobchak. In an interview with The New Times, the TV presenter said that no one planned a fight with riot police and breakthroughs to the Kremlin. “The possibility of organizing an impromptu Maidan, a sitting strike in the square on Bolotnaya was discussed,” said Ksenia Sobchak. — Возможно, информация об этом попала к властям, потому они и закрыли доступ к скверу. Но и организаторы поступили нечестно: они должны были предупредить людей».
Вечером 6 мая Следственным комитетом РФ были заведены уголовные дела по части 3 статьи 212 УК РФ (призывы к массовым беспорядкам) и части 1 статьи 318 УК РФ (применение насилия в отношении представителей власти). 7 и 8 мая мирно гулявших по городу молодых людей уже задерживали в связи «с проверкой на причастность к массовым беспорядкам на Болотной площади». Отбывающих административный арест Сергея Удальцова и Алексея Навального уже допросили следователи Главного следственного управления СК РФ. По неясным причинам с них, равно как и с их адвокатов, пытались взять подписку о неразглашении. How will it end? Собственно, вопрос этот касается отнюдь не только конкретного следствия и конкретного уголовного дела. Это вопрос о судьбе страны.