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On Red Square, the police detained the participants of the anniversary action dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the "demonstration of seven" , the correspondent of "faces" reports.
Exactly at noon with the battlefield, 12 liberal activists launched a stretch with the text "for our and your freedom." Among them was a participant in the demonstration on August 25, 1968, the poetess and human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya. Her police did not touch.
10 people were detained: George Grishko, Alexey Davydov, Martha Lavinskaya, Elena Makarova, Nadezhda Mityushkina, Roman Petrishchev, Alexander Ryklin, Nina Falkovskaya, Sergey Sharov-Deelone, Mikhail Schneider. All of them were delivered to OP "Kitay-Gorod", from where they later released with protocols under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules of the mass action).
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"For your and our freedom" 45 years later
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Five years ago, on August 24, 2008, the police dispersed on Red Square the action "Freedom's Birthday" dedicated to the 40th anniversary of "Demonstration of Seven". Young activists - Julia Bashinova, Valentina Chubarova, Veniamin Dmitroshkin, Nikolai Zboroshenko, Sergey Konstantinov, Ivan Ninenko and Denis Shadrin - sat in the square, deploying the banner "For your freedom!" For several minutes they chanted slogans and talked with reporters. Then the police approached them and, without explanation, began the detention. Three activists, as well as four journalists, including the Grani correspondent, Dmitry Borko, got into the China-Gorod police department. The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Kostyuchenko was broken by the camera during the detention. Later, journalists were released, and protocols under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses were issued to the demonstration participants.
Frontal place: forty years later
45 years ago, on August 25, 1968, Pavel Litvinov, Larisa Bogoraz, Konstantin Babitsky, Vadim Dremlyuga, Viktor Finberg, Tatyana Baeva and Natalya Gorbanevskaya, protesting against the invasion of the Warsaw Czechs of the Warsaw Treaty, reached the Red Square. The demonstration was sedentary and took place at the frontal place. At exactly 12 o’clock in the afternoon, the demonstrators launched posters with the slogans “We Lost the Best Friends”, “At 'žije svobodné a nezávislé československo!”, “Shame on the invaders!”, “Hands off the Czech Republices!”, “For yours and our freedom!”, “Freedom of Dubkeku!”. A few minutes later they were all detained by the KGB officers in civilian clothes, beaten and delivered to the police department. The seven participants in the demonstration persuaded the 21-year-old Tatyana Baeva to refuse to further participate in what was happening: she stated that she was with the demonstrators by chance, and was released.
In court, all the posters of the demonstrators were qualified as slanderous. Victor Finberg was aimed at a psychiatric examination, recognized as insane and undergoing forced treatment. Since Faynberg was knocked out by all his front teeth when detained on Red Square, his appearance in court was considered undesirable. As a sign of a mental illness, it was considered that Feynberg "with enthusiasm and great coverage expresses the ideas of reformation in relation to the teachings of the classics of Marxism, while revealing clearly increased self -esteem and unshakability in its rightness." Natalya Gorbanevskaya was also recognized as insane with a diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia. The remaining participants in the demonstration were sentenced to various terms of conclusion and links.