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The battle of moth
In Moscow, five activists were detained on the Bolshoi Stone Bridge, who blocked the movement with the banner "Heroes of Bolotnaya and Maidan - Glory." Among them is one woman. Together with the activists, the correspondent of the "faces" Andrei Novichkov and employees of the publication Kasparov.ru Alexey Bachinsky and Evgeny Ukhmylin were detained. Journalists were soon released.
According to the correspondent of "faces", activists were detained using force. In particular, Pavel Shekhtman hit his head on a car zak. Denis Petrikeev, Daniil Kogtev and two activists who refused to introduce themselves also participated in the action. Activists were delivered to the Hamovniki police department.
The action was dedicated to the end of the "Swamp process of eight." The events of May 6, 2012, which the court qualified as "mass riots", unfolded, in particular, on the Bolshoi Stone Bridge.
Video Andrei Novichkov:
Promotion on the Big Stone Bridge
On Friday, the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court Natalia Nikishina began to read out the verdict by the eight defendants in the case. A break was unexpectedly announced in the meeting, the verdict will be issued on February 24. The court gathered more than a thousand people. Activists chanted "Freedom!", Meded white pigeons and raised posters in support of the "swamp prisoners." More than 200 people were detained. Most of them face a fine under Art. 20.2 Administrative Code (violation of the rules of the rally).
On the eve of the sentence in Moscow, a number of shares of solidarity with the "prisoners of May 6" were held. Activists stood in single pickets in the center of Moscow, hung banners in the subway and on city bridges. The Ukrainian embassy has passed several shares of solidarity with the Maidan.