
In Moscow, at the Novokuznetsk metro station, a coordinated picket was held in support of swamp prisoners. This was reported on Twitter of the Committee on May 6.
Despite the frosty weather, about 50 people participated in the action. They held the stretch "Swamp on May 6, 2012. They beat, slandered, planted." In the hands of the picketers there were posters "Freedom to prisoners on May 6", "We meet the year of the ram in silence of the lamb", portraits of political prisoners. The former swamp prisoner Mikhail Kosenko participated in the action.
Activists chanted “Down with the authorities of the Chekists!”, “Today they came for them, they will come for you tomorrow”, “Neither dogs, nor cats, the bird was seized - they arrested everyone, Putin is afraid of everyone.” The picketers also demanded the release of the convicted person in the "postal case" of Oleg Navalny and Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.
An unknown person tried to attack the picket participants. The police detained him.
Coordinated pickets in support of the defendants in the "Swamp business" take place on the 6th day of each month. At the same time, single pickets are held at the Manezhnaya Square at the monument to Zhukov that do not require coordination.
On Tuesday, about 30 people participated in the Manezhnaya in pickets. They stood with the posters "shame on the Putin regime", "Freedom to the heroes of May 6", "There will be no freedom - there will be a Maidan", "Better Maidan than Tahrir." None of the participants in the action was detained.
In Arkhangelsk, weekly shares are continuing in support of the Bolotnikov . On January 4, the participants, replacing each other, stood in single pickets with the poster "Artem Savelov at large!"
On December 31, the Savelov swamp prisoner freed himself from colony No. 6 in the village of Stenkino, the Ryazan region to serve sentences. In IK -6, two more swamp prisoners are serving time - Andrei Barabanov and Alexei Polikhovich. “We tried to stay together,” said Savelov.
On December 6, pro -Kremlin activists attacked the picket participants near the Novokuznetskaya metro . One of the provocateurs pushed the elderly activist Semyon Zon-Zama, he fell.
Earlier on the same day in the Sokolniki park, provocateurs attacked the participants in the Solidarity movement, who conducted a traditional picket in support of Ukraine. Directly in the clashes with the picketers, about five people participated - they tore posters, broke the flagpole, shouted slogans in the support of Vladimir Putin and called for "hit the liberals."
The police arrived after the conflict ended. One of the attackers was detained - an activist of the national liberation movement Gosh Tarasich. He was delivered to the Sokolniki police department, three activists of Solidarity wrote statements about the attack there.