In St. Petersburg, assistants to the deputy of the local ZakS Vitaly Milonov Anatoly Artyukh and Alexander Mokhnatkin were detained for promotions in support of the Maidan. According to the correspondent of the "faces", the leader of the "People’s Cathedral" Artyukh and his companions tried to disrupt the agreed rally on the Marse field, they shouted homophilic curses and demanded to remove the flags. At the same time, an artyukh was a strong smell of alcohol. The provocateurs brought the poster "Russians against the Maidan."
Activists of the "National Democrats", the RPR-Parnas, the "Party of Progress" (former "People’s Alliance"), "Party December 5" took part in the action.
Among the detainees was the leader of the St. Petersburg RPR-Parnas Andrei Pivovarov, but soon the police released him. As Pivovarov said, Artyukh threatened the police with dismissal on a police bus.
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As Zaks.ru notes, the leader of the “Russian run” Maxim Kalinichenko also came to the action. He began to shout anti -Semitic slogans, but was stopped by the organizers.