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In St. Petersburg, the correspondent of "Echo of Moscow" is beaten
The correspondent of the Echo Moskvy radio station in St. Petersburg Arseny Vesnin was greatly beaten during the coverage of the action in support of Ukraine, according to the radio station. He received a concussion and a closed head injury.
According to Vesnin, at first the person who attacked him knocked out a microphone with a correspondent with the correspondent with the Echo logo. “The police did not detain him. Then I met him in half an hour. He already began to beat him in the face. He knocked out a tablet, microphone, shot down his glasses. At that moment he was detained,” writes Vesnin.
The attacker and correspondent were taken to the police department, where Vesnin wrote a statement. After that, the correspondent was taken to the hospital.
As Vesnin notes , people with St. George ribbons attacked many picket participants.
About ten pickets took part in the campaign of the Democratic Petersburg coalition in support of the independence of Ukraine, according to Fontanka.ru. A few dozens of people came to support. Single pickets stretched from the street of the uprising to Malaya Sadovaya. The participants in the action were attacked.
The most serious skirmishes were on Malaya Sadovaya. Where, with posters and the flag of Ukraine, there was a coordinator of the "Getersexual Alliance for LGBT Laws" Natalya Tsymbalova. During the picket, aggressive people who constantly tried to take flags and posters approached her.
“It was one solid skirmish. There was no such aggression in my memory,” Tsymbalova notes. “People surrounded us, they were constantly scandalous with us, they tried to tear out the flag of Ukraine several times. We handed out passers -by paper flags, one in our eyes burned right during the action. We began to beat a guy who shouted“ Glory to Ukraine! ”
The police detained both the participants in the action and the attackers of them. However, the police intervened only when it came to an open fight.
In the evening at about 21:00, activists of the St. Petersburg branch of the RPR-Parnas party hung the flag of Ukraine on the bridge over the Moscow Prospekt and lit fires, Baltinfo reports . “There are no detainees as a result of the action, according to preliminary data,” the agency notes.
On Sunday morning, in the center of Moscow, five people were detained while trying to deploy a ten -meter panel of the flag of Ukraine on a large stone bridge ( 
Later, six civilian activists held an anti-imperial picket on Lubyanka, dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine and the 40th anniversary of the political prisoner Boris Stomakhin (
Activists demanded the liberation of Boris Stomakhin, sentenced to 6.5 years for anti -imperial articles, as well as director Oleg Sentsov, a defined fabricated case on the preparation of terrorist attacks in the Crimea, and journalist Sergei Kryukov, accused of propaganda of terrorism.