Translated material
Leaked protest
And a good Triumphalka came out yesterday, my friends. One of the best, perhaps. I left the subway exactly at six. Everything is as always, of course - everything is blocked off, fences, cops, vigilantes. Except that instead of a solid fence, Mayakovsky was fenced with a chain-link fence, and instead of individual cops tearing into swearing, they drove up an evil propaganda machine with a recorded chant: “Citizens, come in, don’t interfere with the passage of citizens.”
Immediately upon leaving I came across Margaret Stewart, who greeted me with the usual Triumphal address: “Babchenko! Why haven’t you been imprisoned yet?” This is how we all always say hello there. Margaret communicates with equal ease both with oppositionists and with FSB agents from Center “E”. So this time she was in the company of this light-faced guy with a mustache and another one with high cheekbones.
“I don’t know,” I say. - Why are you asking me? Ask them and I point to the eshniki.
They were actually surprised, it seemed to me. I don’t know, maybe they still think that they are lucky to get lost in the crowd and still no one notices or recognizes them by sight. In any case, they somehow became confused by the direct appeal.
“You do a terrible job, guys,” I say.
They laughed.
Actually, my main goal at that moment was Rostix. Well, I really needed it) I went to the transition, but missed it by two seconds. They blocked it, of course. I went to Brestskaya - it was also blocked. I went back and they blocked it! They started squeezing out. I approach the captain at the fence
- Comrade captain, open the gate. Your guys are pressing on the other side.
The captain is cheerful and good-natured. He's a good guy - I say this without irony.
“Well, then you’ll go in circles,” he says. - Now we will release you centrally.
This is how we talked:
Photo "Grani.ru": http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/activism/strategy31/m.198108.html
What is the meaning of this matter, I still don’t understand. They released it centrally and, of course, damn it, we all went in a circle. Along Brestskaya, around the corner to Tverskaya and back to the square. In the end, there were five or six such circles cut throughout the evening. Why this is necessary, I don’t understand.
Limonov came up. I even managed to say something. They detained him in a completely civilized manner - they didn’t twist his arms, they didn’t grab him by the neck: “Eduard Veniaminovich, let’s get into the car.” They took him to the limnomobile and took him away.
It should be noted that there was no anger at all yesterday. On both sides. Somehow both citizens and police behaved peacefully. The cops, in my opinion, have generally begun to get tired of all this. And police departments are increasingly refusing to accept political detainees. And yesterday I was stunned by the news that the judge even took Yulia Kazakova’s case and returned it back to the police department for lack of evidence! In general, there is obvious relaxation and vacillation in the system.
Yesterday's light mood is very well conveyed here: http://namarsh-ru.livejournal.com/6932744.html#cutid1
And Limonov is carefully taken away, and people are smiling, and in the 20th photo the cops are laughing cheerfully in response to my trolling, which is discussed below.
Then everyone stood on the corner. Then the guy climbed onto the roof of the stall and unfurled the “Strategy 31” flag. The cop climbed in after him and - oh, miracle! - saluted and began to introduce himself. A great photo of a policeman saluting on the roof of a kiosk was taken by Zyalt. Sur and Mamleevism:
Here: http://zyalt.livejournal.com/568786.html
The guy was detained, and people managed to remove Kadieva, who was standing next to the same flag. Another policeman who was hunting for her gave up and walked away.
Then we stood on this corner. I met Judge Sazonova. Then the cops came in from the other side and started pushing people out into the square. Don’t ask me about the meaning of these maneuvers - squeezing people out from the square to the street, then from the street to the square - there is no logic here at all. Something needs to be done, apparently, so they are doing something.
I didn’t want to get into a crush, or get screwed, so I opened the door and went inside. Inside the open door, a Pilsner beer house very conveniently turned out to be. I took the dark Goat, sat down by the window and began to pour out the protest in the literal sense of the word. Like this:
Photo by Gleb Thorwin from here: http://thorwin.livejournal.com/260414.html
And it’s kind of a pity for the policeman’s extreme disgrace as a human being, isn’t it? He looks at my beer with such unhappy eyes...
After which I sat for a while and trolled with beer all the revolutionaries, cops and eshniki passing by together. For some reason, my face with a mug caused a terrible stir, joy and applause in the ranks of the opposition. In a short period of time, about a dozen revolutionaries crowded into my table and we began to merge the protest all together:
The photo is also of Gleb, after which he also joined the drain.
As a result, in my opinion, all of Triumphalnaya ended up flowing into the tavern. We had a simply wonderful time. They trolled all the cops and security officers, and completely without malice. They smiled and laughed in response. At this table, a new idea of the Good Triumphal was born - as opposed to the Evil Triumphal with cops, paddy wagons and detentions. The point is this. For the next event, we just stupidly reserve the entire pub for ourselves, all sit by the windows and troll the cops with beer. They stand angry in a cordon, drooling, but cannot do anything. As soon as they leave, we pour out into the street. And as soon as the cops return, we go back to the pub. And so on in a circle. Anything is better than cutting circles around Brest. And from time to time, whoever wants to goes out to the stall, waves a flag, screws around, then returns and does it all over again. In the end, the job is done, the beer is drunk, and the citizens’ nerves are in perfect order and complacency. What do you think of the idea?
In general, we sat there for a long time, talked to a lot of people, got to know a lot of people, exchanged ideas and thoughts and in general. I don’t know why you don’t go to the revolution. This is really great.
Quite a lot of people gathered yesterday, a thousand to one and a half thousand at the peak, I think. The police say four hundred, which means you can safely multiply by three. 124 people were detained. Almost everyone was released under Article 20.2, as far as I know.
Happy summer to everyone, in general.