22 homophobes were detained in the center of Moscow

In Moscow on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 22 homophobic activists were detained, the Grani.ru correspondent reports. They were going to attack participants in the action in defense of the rights of sex minorities, women and migrants. All detainees were released after a preventive conversation. In the coordinated rally “marching hearts” on the embankment of Taras Shevchenko, about 50 people took part on Saturday night, they were guarded by several hundred police officers.

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The event carried out a movement for equal rights for representatives of LGBT, women and migrants "Mars of equality". "Recently, the suppression of protests takes strict forms. The rights and freedoms of the majority are threatened. We, participants in the movement for equality for all, regardless of nationality, gender and orientation, cannot but bother the problems of the whole society - the lack of democracy, corruption, reduction of the social sphere. We are convinced that peace and tolerance cannot reign in a non -free country, torn apart by social problems. The power of various groups in such groups in such Society is the best way to keep power in the hands of the ruling elite, ”the action organizers said in a statement of the organizers of the action.

Last year, the "margin of equality" ended with detentions and a fight with the Nazis (

On May 27, the police dispersed the participants of the gay parade at the Moscow City Hall at the Tver and Mosgordum in Petrovka, several dozen participants and opponents of the action were detained (

On May 17, in St. Petersburg, nationalists and football fans fired from traumatic pistols of representatives of sex minorities and beat the guest workers in front of the police. Several dozen LGBT activists gathered in the Petrovsky Park, who protested against homophobia and xenophobia. During the action, about a hundred aggressive young people appeared in the park. They shouted "We will hang you and bury you!", "Garbage - stupid morons!" At first, individual hooligans broke off the cordon - they shot at the participants of the action from gas weapons and threw themselves with glass bottles. Some were delayed by the police, but more often the police simply performed the functions of a cordon, but did not interfere with what was happening. At least one person suffered - he was in the face. For security reasons, all LGBT move activists were taken out of the Petrovsky Park by bus. On the Zhdanovskaya embankment, about a hundred hooligans attacked two service buses transporting migrant workers. The attackers defeated the glasses in it, jumped inside and beat the workers. The migrant workers were hiding under the seats, shouting, begging them not to touch. The police behaved indifferently, watching beating from the Petrovsky Park, not even trying to stop the pogrom.