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"Million march" and #purebrand through the eyes
Events in Moscow on May 6 and in the following days came around by the unclaimed interest of Frends. All these days, in places of protest, is the Murmanskian Alexander @ allexere Budnikov, very actively describing what is happening in his TV-Lente. I decided that his story about these days will be all interested in us all, although, as I foresee, it would cause a lot of disputes.
It seemed to me that Alexander himself was evolving towards a slight disappointment in what the occupybai camp turns into pure ponds today. I think that the upcoming day off can be a turning point in his fate (camps, not @ allexere , I hope).
Nevertheless, meet the first “memoirs”;) a participant in these events, ask him questions in the tape, Alexander promised to answer them as far as possible and “if the phone is charged”:
"It was impossible to go to Moscow this time. It was important to show that not everyone in our country agrees with the course of the ruling elite and with the quality of institutions and democratic procedures. There was a feeling that we had the last chance to achieve change-ahead of the summer, a decline in political activity. Secondly, it became customary to support each other in the opposition environment, wherever the problems arose in Moscow, Astrakhani or in any way. The country is common to a different region, and we cannot indifferently observe what is happening when the laws of this country are violated in the most barbaric way.
From May 1 to May 3, several dozen people from different regions of the region left Murmansk to the “Million”. The last coordinators of the Civil Initiative left the last. Two special forces from the MCC "Forgotten Regiment" went with them as a guard.
The trip was conceived long before May 6. A special minibus was found, which was a empty in one of the regions near Moscow. The ticket prices were much lower than railway, and even less time was to go on the road. Unfortunately, all these hopes did not materialize. It began with the fact that sending for unknown reasons lingered for two hours.
Then our bus was stopped twice by traffic police officers and kept for an hour and a half for no reason. Ultimately, in the most dull part of Karelia, the bus suddenly stalled, the driver said that the electronics were “dead”. He left the second driver with passengers and disappeared, catching a passage that took him in the direction of the Murmansk region.
We had to go on a way to Petrozavodsk, where we took the train tickets to Moscow. Fortunately, we managed to come to the capital on time.
Swamp
At noon on May 6, I was already in Moscow. There were six more Murmansk people with me. We helped the organizers prepare Bolotnaya Square for the rally and went to Yakimanka to take part in the procession. Murmansk residents from the "Forgotten Regiment" carried a banner at the head of the column, and I was stuck to the journalists ahead ahead. 
When the column approached a small stone bridge, I decided to break away from it and go to Bolotnaya to avoid the crush. There were already about two thousand people on the square at this time. After the column approached the framework, the area almost ceased to be filled.
Suddenly from the stage they announced that people were not allowed to Bolotnaya Square, that Navalny and Udaltsov had declared a seated strike and asked to support them. A group of about five hundred people moved to the framework from the swamp, I am with them. The police refused to let us out of the square. Then the crowd, chanting “Pass!”, Cracked around the framework and we went to the “drummer”, where people continued to sit. OMON from the cordon began to crowd us from the sites of the demonstrators. Then we began to swing and broke through the cordon in the direction of the “drummer”. The crush was terrible, we clung to each other. At some point, my legs broke away from the ground and I just swayed in the crowd like on a swing.
After reaching the “drummer”, the confrontation with riot police began. The chain either closed, then broke through again. Leaders got up. I was approaching Navalny, but suddenly I saw that at a cordon towards the Big Stone Bridge, riot police squealed the cloar girls. I rushed there. People also connected from behind and we broke a cordon in the direction of the Kremlin. The chain closed behind us.
We found ourselves between a blocked large stone bridge and a cordon on Serafimovich. The faces of the police were confused and angry. While no one was detained, reinforcements of riot police were moving in our direction. Then we decided to break through to Serafimovich. After the cordon was broken, the riot police rode into the gap. I was immediately detained.
There were 23 people from Tula, Bryansk, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yaroslavl in Avtozak. Among us was the assistant deputy Ponomarev Alexei Sakhnin.
We rewrote our names, told their human rights activists. The police threatened us with a serious trial, because by that time one of the OMON fighters had knocked out two teeth, and the other broke his leg. However, in the Presnensky police department it turned out that we were taken away for disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers (although they seemed to not demand anything). Four hours later we were released. 
However, so many protesters did not gather in Bolotnaya, when the authorities began to limit the passage of citizens to the event. At the framework (they were already the second) began to inspect for several minutes of each who came. From the side of the Yakimanka, a mash formed and a crush began. At first, OMON acted correctly, trying to maintain a cordon and detaining those who came for him. However, then unmotivated detentions and beating of citizens who were forced to defend themselves began. This provoked riots. Responsibility for them, in my opinion, lies exclusively on the authorities.
According to my observations and by eyewitnesses, I can say the following. The actions of the police in Bolotnaya can only be justified partially.
Firstly, the organization of the event itself both from the authorities and on the part of the organizing committee created the prerequisites for the clash. The organizing committee did not expect that so many protesters would come. “Solidarity” believed that there would be three to five thousand people, the Left Front expected fifteen. As a result, more than 50 thousand came. The application was submitted by only five.
White city, or #Occupayabay
After spending the night with friends, I decided to stay for a few more days. Since it was the day of the inauguration, we met a motorcade on the Arbat and moved to the gun. However, by that time, the opposition had already been replaced from there and the protest moved to the Nikitsky gate. There were about thirty nurses in the ring of protesters with posters "Putin loves everyone."
We chased each other slogans. We pulled ourselves one of the ring and destroyed their symbols. At some point, about two thousand people with white ribbons were on Tversky Boulevard and a spontaneous procession to Tverskaya began. Soon riot police arrived. We were surrounded, we were released from him and detained several of ours. The rest decided to meet in pure ponds and scattered. 
"Nurses" in the ring
On pure ponds, riot police were already waiting for us. People with white ribbons were taken one at a time that they simply walked. Then everyone took off the white ribbons and decided to gather on the Old Square at 19 o’clock. Instead of tapes, they began to use an icon with a pink triangle.
As soon as I came to Kitay-Gorod, they immediately checked the documents, they did not detain me. But ten minutes later the law "On the Police" was forgotten, and my friend from Kandalaksha went to the car. Here, 11 minutes before the end of the video, there is a small interview in the Old Square. 
"Vintilovo" on China-Gorod
In general, according to my data, almost all opposition from Murmansk were at least once detained. Someone got to the hospital, but I do not know the details. Elena Vasilieva fell into intensive care: tear gas burst into her face in the face, which provoked a heart attack.
Meanwhile, the police warned us that our action was not agreed and asked to disperse. We did not leave. Then OMON began to grab individual walking from the crowd and delay. Soon, the square was completely cleaned, but after a couple of minutes it was again filled with opposition. We did not chant, we did not have slogans, posters. There were no white ribbons. We just walked. OMON cleaned the square several times, ran after walking along the sidewalks. But everyone was returning back. Without saying a word. It was amazing.
Murmansk residents in Chocolate House on China-Gorod
After each dispersal, we only became more. Self -organization began, there were no leaders in the square. After the sixth overclocking, we realized that nothing can be done with us. We lay down on cardboard. If riot police began to detain, we calmly left, and then returned. People with food began to come. Someone began to collect money for foams and products. Someone brought the ball, the games began. Navalny drove up only by 11 pm. If he had not arrived, they would have coped without him. We realized that we would not leave the square anymore. Despite the hard Vintilovo. ATS were crowded, many were released just like that. They again came to the monument, they were again taken away.
Soon a real mobile camp was formed, which still could not disperse. Now no leader can drain our protest, because now we are the leaders ourselves. Sooner or later, we will achieve a change of criminal power.
As for our goals, they are clear. Resolutions of Bolotnaya and Sakharov have not yet been implemented. OMON twists walking people. The faces of the judges are hidden behind the backs of the bailiffs. We want a change of power. We do not fight for the change of one leader to another. We need to change the system.
By the way, about the leaders. We made a big leap. At the monument to the heroes of Plevna, a real civil society originated. No one coordinated this action or invented. She was born on the go. People simply decided that they would not go anywhere, began to self -organize and use mercury tactics. All issues were resolved in the process of communication.
Someone offered to organize a fundraising for food and foam, someone offered to get out, someone brought the ball. And it was not Navalny. Now we do not need leaders, we have learned to interact with each other. For a particular case, leaders arise spontaneously, they change, come and go. But now we will not go anywhere.