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"Russian May Day"-2014 in Moscow
On May 1, 2014, several actions were held in Moscow, organized by ultra-right parties and associations.
On May 1, 2014, the Moscow nationalists, unable to reach an agreement on a single action "Russian May Day", held several separate events instead.
At noon, the Russian Association assembled a traditional procession from the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station to the Shchukinskaya metro station along the streets of Marshal Biryuzov and Marshal Vasilevsky. The demonstration began with a significant delay - accompanied by the loud barking of the surrounding dogs, which drowned out the chanting, the columns moved from their place only at about 13:00. The number of the procession, according to the observers of the SOVA center, turned out to be comparable to last year - about 500 people.
Before the start of the event were detained several people who tried to pass through the frames of metal detectors with medical masks in the pockets of clothes.
Alexander Belov, Dmitry Demushkin, Vladimir Ermolaev (“Russians”), Alexei Levkin (WotanJugend) were noted among those present. The protection of the event was entrusted to the Restruct! movement.
The procession, as usual, was led by representatives of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers (this time there were four of them), two cars and a group of six drummers.
Following was the column of the Russian Association, led by Belov and Demushkin. Then came the participants of the movement "Russian Jogging" with streamers " Glory to the Heroes!" "," Sport, nation, socialism! and Sports, family, socialism! ", the movement" Restruct! and neo-pagans. About 50 supporters of Vladimir Istarkhov's Russian Right Party held banners with party symbols and chanted anti-Western and homophobic chants. Activists of the RFO "Memory" carried a banner " Faith! Race! Tradition! ". Then a group of seven people moved under the flag of the National Union. Toward the end of the procession, 22 people carried the giant imperial flag, a fixture of far-right events. The column of "Russians" closed the line.
The symbols of the mixed martial arts club "Styag" were also noted. Representatives of the Guestbusters project held a banner “ Have you signed up for raids? ”, with a link to the migrantam.net website.
The marchers carried numerous imperial banners, " Citizenship for insiders only" etc. banners , Quite a lot of those gathered were dressed in Russian national costumes. It is also noteworthy that two girls wearing Ukrainian wreaths took part in the march.
They chanted the traditional “ Peace, labor, May - guest worker, leave!” ”, “ Higher, higher the Russian flag, the state is the main enemy ”, “ Russians - Russian Moscow, cancel two-eight-two! ”,“ In order not to get knives, you need a visa regime ”,“ You smoke, drink wine and beer - you are an accomplice of Tel Aviv! "(from the column" Istarhovtsev ")," Prisoners of conscience, you are not forgotten! Freedom for Nikola Korolyov "and others.
Groups of demonstrators from the "Russians" movement also chanted " Russians are against abortion, a Russian must give birth!" ". In general, a greater number of political slogans were noted. “ The police are with the people, you can’t serve freaks! "," Putin is not our president, Putin is the president of Tajikistan! "," It is dangerous to live without a gun - thanks to Putin for that! "," The apartment costs like a rocket - thanks to Putin for that! "," Russia groans like a rocket - thanks to Putin for that! ”,“ Deport an illegal immigrant - and there will be no crime ”,“ No - centralization, yes - deportation! "," Russia - from Odessa to Kamchatka! "," Get out of Bandera from the Russian land! ".
After the procession, a rally was held, but the concert planned after it could not be held: on the morning of May 1, the leader of the Kolovrat group, Denis Gerasimov, was detained by the police. Alexander Belov, who opened the rally, began his speech with a message about this.
Dmitry Demushkin said that he was against the government's policy aimed at pushing the fraternal peoples together. In addition, the procession participants protested against the change in the procedure for granting Russian citizenship, he added.
Also speaking at the rally were Roman Zheleznov (Zukhel), introduced to the audience as the leader of Restrukt, municipal deputy Alexander Gruzinov (nominated from the regional branch of the Motherland party), leader of the Frontier of the North organization Alexei Kolegov, who came from Komi. The leader of the Right Party, Vladimir Istarkhov, called from the stage to cancel Articles 282 and 280, disperse Center E, cancel the list of banned literature and imprison oligarch thieves, and at the end of his speech he raised his hand in a Nazi salute. The rally was closed by Alexander Belov, who declared that the Russians have the right to self-defense and called for "arming."
At 15:00, a rally of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and the HRC "ROD" took place in Gorky Park . Up to 180 people gathered for the rally. The theme of the action was announced as support for the "Russian spring".
The participants held the flags of the People's Democratic Party, the ROD, the Holy Rus' movement, the flag of the Donetsk Republic movement, the flag with the inscription "Sevastopol", imperial flags, etc., as well as photographs of those who died in Eastern Ukrainian cities. The rally participants were holding a large Russian tricolor, at the end of the rally it was announced that this tricolor, together with the money raised for the rally, would be transferred to the Donetsk Republic.
The action began with a minute of silence in memory of those killed in Ukraine.
The leader of the National Democratic Party Konstantin Krylov, the head of the HRC "ROD" Natalia Kholmogorova, the head of the executive committee of the NDP Vladimir Tor, the publicist Yegor Kholmogorov, and the writer Elena Chudinova spoke at the rally. In general, they expressed support for the “Russian spring”, noted the unity of goals of Russians in Russia and Ukraine, and called for solidarity with Russians in Ukraine: “Russian, help the Russian.”
Representative of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Matyushin, one of the leaders of the "Odessa squad" Dmitry Odinov, Alexander Svetlichny from the Luhansk region, Alexander Rumyantsev from the Donetsk region also addressed the audience.
At the end of the rally, a resolution was read, and its participants released two bunches of balloons in the colors of the Russian flag into the sky.
Another far-right event, the "Russian Spring - Russian Unity" procession and rally, took place in the Moscow district of Lyublino . It was organized by the Russian Action Coalition, the project of the Great Russia party and the Minin and Pozharsky People's Militia (NOMP), the movement For Responsible Power (ZOV), etc.
The demonstrators marched along Pererva Street to the monument to the Soldier of the Fatherland, where the rally took place.
About 150 people gathered for this action: about 20 banner-bearers, a column of about 50 members of Great Russia with party symbols, a comparable number of supporters of the NOMP, representatives of the Volya party, ZOV, Cossacks and supporters of other movements and organizations.
The May Day rally on Pushkinskaya , organized by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), was clearly anti-Ukrainian. It was attended by no more than 500 people at the same time. However, according to the organizers, more than 3.5 thousand came to the rally. From the podium, decorated with the slogans " Supreme, give the order! " , " Get up, Russian people! ”, as well as anti-Ukrainian (“ To answer for every drop of Russian blood! ”, “ Youth of Ukraine, you were deceived ”) and anti-Western slogans (“ Obama, remember Napoleon and Hitler! ”), were made by Vladimir Zhirinovsky and LDPR activist Alexei Didenko. Basically, the speakers adhered to anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, commemorated Bandera. Zhirinovsky called for the creation of a small Ukrainian state in the western part of the country (“ Let them eat their belyashi and dumplings there ,” he said), and Didenko also called for expanding Russia’s sphere of interests to Belarus.
The traditional May Day demonstration, organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , was also marked by posters with gross racist insults to US President Barack Obama.
See also the photo reports of the SOVA Center:
May Day on the "October field" - "Shchukinskaya"
Sources
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