Photo: Daniil Kolomiychuk/publicpost About 100 activists gathered today on the triumphal square for a traditional action in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of assembly. Among those who came about a third, they were journalists. By tradition, the police were several times more than the opposition. According to the results of the action , about 40 people were detained .
It was not possible to approach the reconstruction area closed for reconstruction because of the riot police and metal fences chain. So oppositionists stood along the Tchaikovsky concert hall. The police urged citizens to disperse, while without taking any actions to accelerate. The detentions began only after any of the protesters tried to get a poster. Then the policeman approached the offender and, politely introducing himself, asked to remove agitation. When the persuasion did not exert their effect, the "astronauts" sent a picket to a car gut. Thus, a red and hollow young man with a poster "Russia without Putin" and a guy in a T -shirt with an anti -Putin print went to Avtosak.
The heroine among the protesters was a grandmother in black glasses, chanting ditties on the topic of police arbitrariness: "Millions dumped the city hall for a riot police so that demojandarmerie was more likely to beat us."
On the way to the triumphal square, the author of Strategy-31 Eduard Limonov was detained. “Nothing. They flew. They took it. They dragged. On the corner of the triumphant and Tverskaya. He reached the venue of the action. And in the thick of all this, in front of the journalists, they detained me,” said Publicpost Edward Limonov from Avtozak.
In addition to Limonov, the coordinator of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin was also detained.
The municipal deputy of the Zyuzino district Konstantin Yankauskas also went to Avtosak. During the detention, a jacket was torn to him. “Generally cool. I was detained without the sanction of the prosecutor, as the law requires,” the deputy wrote on his Twitter . “The greyhound regime. Olya was trampled by his feet, because she stood up for me. Smoke, of course. Very sorry for the jacket. The only one that converged on my belly.”
For the first time, the lawyers of the convicted participants in the punk-band Pussy Riot Violett Volkov, Mark Feigin and Nikolai Polozov came to the triumphal square. Volkova was in a white T -shirt with the inscription "The Virgin, Putin of the run." Lawyers talked among themselves and did not give an interview.