Translated material
Deliverance
Report from Lubyanskaya Square
On December 15, in the square near Solovetsky Stone in the center of Moscow, an action was not authorized by the authorities. The New Times worked on the square
It was cold on Lubyanskaya Square
How the authorities guarded order
The area of the revolution - where the rally of the Communists from the front of the front was scheduled (Moscow authorities first agreed, but on the evening of December 14, permission was withdrawn) - blocked. 18 buses with soldiers of internal troops, dozen trucks, 2 field kitchens. The corner of the Christmas and theater passage ("Children's World") - 3 auto -zats, 2 grooves, 4 buses of internal troops. Nikolskaya Street - 3 grooves of riot police. Big Cherkasy Lane-3 grooves with fighters of the 2nd operational regiment, 2 buses of internal troops. Slavic Square - about 10 grooves with riot police, 10 police gazelle, about 20 cars and the Ford minibus, on which antennas and cameras are installed. The intersection of the Lubyansky passage with Myasnitskaya is 8 police Gazelle. 2 Pazika and Gazelle at the monument to the heroes of Plevna. Lubyansky passage, opposite the polytechnic - auto -zaks, just trucks, minibuses and buses - only about 30, in which soldiers of the internal troops are sitting. A tent with a field kitchen is broken on the sidelines. "Contractors?" - asks the soldier who shifting near the bus, the correspondent of The New Times. -"Nope, urgent." - "What is here?" - "Ordered." “And you are interested in why people went out into the street in such a frost?” “Nope, I am a drum.”
Solovetsky stone: flowers and people
It was very touching: people approached the square near the Solovetsky stone, which was surrounded by police around the perimeter, holding bouquets of flowers in front of them. The flowers were more often white: chrysanthemums, cloves, less often roses. They kept these bouquets right in front of them, vertically, almost at the level of the chin - they do not carry flowers when they go to visit or on a date. The flowers were, as it were, by appeal to all these police pea jackets and riot police and riot police: do not beat and disperse us-we just brought flowers to the monument to the victims of the Stalinist repressions. In this naivety, in the tension of the persons who fell already in the square, when they found themselves among their own, not only doubts were visible (was it worth it to go to an unauthorized action?), But also internal torment, which was required to crush. By getting rid of fear or step towards that, in fact, this was this action on December 15, the report with which the New Times correspondents was conducted.
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| Ksenia Sobchak in Avtosak |
14.59. Ksenia Sobchak, Ilya Yashin, both Gudkova, only fifteen people, are going on an underground passage from Nikolskaya to Solovetsky Stone. At this time, the team went upstairs at this time: "Ten people down." Police cut off Yashin and Sobchak. “We want to put flowers to the stone,” says Yashin to the officer, holding a bouquet with white roses in his hand. “Yes, yes, of course,” the officer replies. “I will spend you.” Another policeman takes Sobchak by the elbow. “Well, take your hands away,” Yashin tells him. “Well, only without stupid things,” he answers. Sobchak and Yashin are taken to a car zakak. The information comes to the square through Twitter and immediately becomes the subject of discussion. “They took Sobchak and Yashin,” a man in a down jacket says an intelligent look. "Oh, then they made peace?" - A woman with a soft round face responds immediately. “Like yes,” the man replies. “Well, good,” the woman states.
15.10. Sergei Udaltsov manages to reach the square: journalists and police officers immediately rushed to him, who dragged him to Avtozak. The crowd shouts: "Shame!" - Behind them. Udaltsov himself, contrary to the usual, is silent. “Well, they drag him,” the warmly dressed elderly lady is loudly indignant, “he does not resist!” A walkie-talkie spoke at the senior in the group of riot police: “Baikal, Baikal, Chisinau, let's pull the groups two or three on the patch. Above the monument to Felix Edmundovich. Now there will be people who will have to be seized. Baikal, Chisinau, reception. "
15.20. A woman of about forty says to the friend: “So, if Navalny appeared here, you urgently need to run in the other direction.”
15.34. The New Times - Navalny - The New Times. "Where are you?" - "In Avtosak." - "What did they say when they delayed?" - “They didn’t say anything. OMON. Here Gaskarov (member of the CS from the left) and three more people. It seems they were taken next to the square. ” - "How did they take them?" - "As usual:" Take it. "
15.30 - 16.00. From conversations on the Lubyansky Square:
Alisa Pilyukova, 27 years old, is dressed in all black: “This is a matter of human dignity. The city hall, who refused to coordinate the rally and told us: “You are nobody,” she simply left us no choice whether to come out or not. Can they arrest? They can, I am ready for this: I figured out business, warned acquaintances. I have a "Rosuznik" phone with me. " - "What do you do in life?" - "I am a tarologist, I guess on the Tarot cards."
Lisa Kofanova, 18 years old, a student of Moscow State University: “A little scary, yes. I have never been arrested, but I think if you behave normally and do not climb anywhere, then they will not arrest. For myself, I immediately decided - they will agree or not, I’ll go anyway. ”
Eugene, a man of indefinite age: a gray scarf is pulled to the very eyes, a gray hat is pushed on the forehead. “Here the opera is removed in any way, I don’t want to light up. At home a wife and three children. But still stocked up: the spouse here with her gave a toothbrush, linen, charging for a phone and dried fruits, ”he claps his backpack.
Valentina Nikolaevna, pensioner from Mytishch: “I worked in the election commission. This is a plot in a cooperative technical school in Mytishchi, in Perlovka, but it was disbanded. In December, United Russia scored 32%, and Putin in March - 36%, and they tell us - 50-60%. This is a lie. I cannot live with this lie. ”
A young couple, both about twenty -five years: a gloomy guy with a red, frozen face and a miniature girl in a funny brown hat with a pompon. She: "Sasha, let's go to riot police, let's say." - "What will we say?" “Well, let's say something.” - “Listen, stand still, huh? He will tell you so much that you will celebrate the New Year in a pre -trial detention center. ” She: "Not true, 15 days on December 30 will end."
Some carried a bouquet in front of them like a sword ... 
15.50. A dozen fighters from the 2nd operational police regiment under the guidance of an officer are rushing about the area, a man in a white Kurtk is running up to them-apparently, the FSB operative or the EE center. “Where is he? On the corner? -He says with someone on the phone and waves his hand to the police. - Behind me! " The whole group is in a hurry to the corner of the Polytechnic Museum and the Lubyansky passage, but for some reason they stop. “Bl*d, I’m already half an hour of them*I can’t get through! - The operative in a white jacket yells into the phone. - How did you leave?! " "M*ducks, they stood jerking off for half a day, they did not work them*I!" - the operative says to his colleagues and goes towards the crowd at the Solovetsky stone. “Did it turn out well? - On the way, it turns on the correspondent of The New Times. And viciously adds: - Another time I will break the camera. ”
16.00. A young black -eyed riot police with dimples on pink cheeks put it in a loudspeaker: “Dear citizens! This event has not been agreed with the executive branch ... "" Do you know other words? " - asks him a man in a down jacket. “I have a multifunctional profession. I can detain, save, suppress, I can announce as today, ”he replies. Igor’s work is difficult today: the microphone refuses in the cold now and then, you have to warm it with your breath. Heated, made an ad again. Satisfied with the work, conversation: “I adhere to conservative concepts. And they (people in the square) are all liberal. I do not like this public liberal. They pay rallies: the same people constantly come to these events. They don’t care what to gather against. And all so talkative, they say a lot - do little. I think these rallies are useless. We have a normal situation in the country. If you want to change something-start with yourself. Get something yourself, slowly, ”he instructs.
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Baikal, Baikal, Chisinau, let's pull the groups here on the patch. Now there will be people who need to be removed
” 16.15. The buffet of the Polytechnic Museum is packed with people in civilian clothes, by the appearance of the FSB and the ED center. From time to time they open the window, stick out a powerful lens and take people away in the square: face by face. A special person who has an iPad with dozens of bookings, tracks messages on Twitter and a living journal. "Solidarity" and Twitter Sobchak.
16.30. At a metal fence, two policemen are shaking from the cold, one black -haired, the other bright, whitish, both under thirty. They complain: they stand in the cold with almost no break from 9 in the morning. “Such rallies will not lead to anything. Have you studied political science? I found a little. You look at these protesters, they are half bought, ”says the black -haired. A man approaches him and irritably asks: “Now, now the colonel will order the girl to detain the girl - will you detain? And then the protocol will write that she bit you by the finger. ” The policeman is the New Times: "Here is a negative person."
17.10. Employees of the 2nd operational regiment were ordered to supplant people from the square. “Voskresensk, let's go here too, pull yourself up to the Solovetsky stone, mix the groups. Your two groups - we take the left side of the square. How did you accept? " - the radio shouts. “Check the tokens! The main thing is that the tokens are on you, ”says the officer.
The protesters who took a round dance around the Solovetsky stone shout: "Down with the power of the Chekists!" Hearing these words, Ashnik (employee of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate) in a blue jacket and sports pants runs out of the “rear” of the cordon and removes the protesters on the video camera. "Are these American felt boots?" - asks the correspondent of The New Times, one of the riot police.
Police squeeze people in the subway
According to the radio: “Senior detention groups, interact with the senior groups for the delivery of buses so that they arrive at the point that you will indicate to receive the persons you are interested in.” “Content the left edge, the left edge - to the lantern,” the team sounds, and the chain has gone.
"Wait! - Suddenly the elderly riot police screams. - The woman will lay flowers! Flowers to the Solovetsky Stone! " He looks around and orders the chains to stop. An elderly woman slowly unfolds a newspaper with white chrysanthemums.
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| The operative who led the detentions at the Polytechnic Museum |
“There are posters hang on a tree-you direct someone in civilian,” the walkie-talkie screams again.“Girl, you are completely frozen, well, go to the subway,” the captain with an icy black mustache, who looks like the Chekhov city, begging. “Could you sit with a young man in a cafe, you are such a beauty.” “Principles are more expensive than a cafe,” the girl replies. “Ah, the principles ... I understand this, yes, principles,” the city grins into the mustache, from which white ice flies.
"Why aren't you with us?" - A man of years under 50 with a professor’s beard intervenes in a conversation. “Why aren't you with us? - the city carrion answers. - We are standing here a strong order, but you don’t go to the subway! ”
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“Oh, you would like a hot seagull” ... The fighter tiredly puts his head on his friend’s shoulder and closes his eyes: “To hug a girl ...”" 17.30. People are pushed from Solovetsky stone. They take hands and chant:" Russia without Putin! " One operative is: “Look, they have your own strategy:“ Come to seize, otherwise the third one: “Oh, it would be a gull of hot or coffee.” Now, the lips are already turning to one of the protesters.
20.00. 69 people were detained, who were taken to five police branches. Eight people, including members of the KS Navalny, Sobchak, Udaltsov, Yashin, are released without drawing up the protocol. The remaining 61 people issued protocols under Art. 20.2 part 5 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation: “Violation by the participants of the event of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally” - a fine of 10 to 20 thousand rubles or under Art. 19.3: “The disobedience of the police” - up to 15 days.
Photos: Vasily Popov, Anatoly Strunin, Ksenia Zhikharev, Rustem Adagamov, from Twitter Ilya Yashin