Baptism by Lubyanka. Photo

What can I say, it was scary to go to Lubyanka. What did you expect? Yes, the same as on Triumfalnaya. The riot police wall that blocked the sidewalks, vintilovo and a chant in a swearing book: “Citizens, do not interfere with the passage of citizens,” “Free up the roadway, sidewalk, boulevard (cross out what is unnecessary)!”

We agreed to meet with friends at the mausoleum. Surprisingly, Red Square was not blocked off this time. However, the police led our white-ribbon group all the way to Lubyanka. Listening to the conversations on the walkie-talkies, I was worried about Igor Bakirov and Sasha Shcherbakov, well-known figures in the protest. But - pah-pah-pah! - it worked out.

Lubyanka greeted peacefully, except for the partitions, narrow passages and pens that deliberately created a crush, a helicopter chirping overhead and countless hordes of law enforcement officers, with whom all the streets and alleys adjacent to the square were crowded. An attempt to count police buses and cars failed. We lost count at the fifth dozen.

And people walked and walked to the Solovetsky Stone with a feeling of inner freedom and their own rightness. Who are they, these “servants of the people”, to cynically ban our meetings and processions, occupy our native Moscow, dig up and block almost all the squares, pass unconstitutional laws, beat with batons, screw, torture, try and imprison our comrades? Did you choose them? We are not. Then why the hell are we keeping them?

Marginalized, you say? Well, well.

Alexey Navalny.

Alexander Belov.

And something tells me that the government is in a mess today. And all her attempts to “save face,” despite the massive screw-up, are doomed to failure.

According to Rosuznik, many of the detainees were released without a protocol, and two people who refused to identify themselves remained to spend the night at the Basmannoe police station and at the Taganskoye police station.

We won, friends! There is no more fear.