A hero is the one who goes against the system

What people talked about on the procession of Nemtsov’s memory. Reporting Ilya Azar

In Moscow on February 27, the march of memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was killed exactly a year ago on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, was held on February 27. About 24 thousand people (according to the police - 7.5 thousand) went from passionate boulevard to Sakharov Avenue, after which many citizens went to lay flowers to the place of murder of an opposition policy. The special correspondent of Medusa Ilya Azar talked with the participants in the procession that the deceased politician meant to Russia and for them personally.

“Nemtsov I want to say thanks for the fact that he sowed the grain of freedom and humanity in our souls. Thanks to him that he taught us that we are not cattle, but people. I knew him personally, thanks to him, I regret that he was not with us, ”a sad woman with a poster“ fight ”told me.

“See what a sunny day? This means that Nemtsov is with us today, ”said a woman with a flag of Ukraine and a poster“ I'm not afraid ”in her hands.

The weather was really good. In the afternoon, people began to gather at the beginning of the passionate boulevard, so that at 14:00 columns to move along the Boulevard Ring to Sakharov Avenue.

The first of the former associates of Nemtsov in opposition to the framework of metal detectors was the ex-deputy of the State Duma Gennady Gudkov. It was surrounded by journalists and ordinary protesters.

“Nemtsov was my colleague in the struggle, he was a man with a huge charisma, a bright, bright and living person,” said Gudkov. So almost all people who respect him are talking about Nemtsov.

- Why did the State Duma deputies refused to stand in honor of Nemtsov? - asked Gudkov a foreign journalist.

“They were afraid because it would be a plead of the guilt of the state,” he answered.

The procession was led by the chairman of the Parnassus party Mikhail Kasyanov and his deputy Ilya Yashin (close friend of Nemtsov); The latter was in a black coat and with red flowers in his hands. They were joined by Gudkov, politician and public figure Irina Prokhorova and the son of Nemtsov Anton. Oppositionists gathered at stretching with the inscription: "Killed for freedom." “They killed a bright, honest and decent person. The murder of Nemtsov is a terrorist act, ”Yashin told reporters.

While people gathered on a march, in front of the framework of metal detectors distributed forms for collecting signatures in support of the installation of a memorial sign on a large Moskvoretsky bridge. Several people conducted sociological research. The girl in a pink hat read out questions from the leaflet, the first of them sounded like this: “Hello. You came to this march. What problem is it dedicated? "

- Putin said that in all predictions, England would soon go under water. Where do you think she will go? - the respondent answered her question with a question.

“If this is his opinion, it is important to us,” the girl told me to be offered not to waste time on such people. The respondent turned out to be the agitator of the Volya party and handed me a party leaflet.

Near the group of journalists, an old man approached a winter hat, in front of him he pushed a wheelchair with his wife. “What channel are you from? I want to talk about the illegal removal of property, ”she told a correspondent with a video camera. He turned away. The St. George ribbon was tied to the stroller.

“This is the march of Nemtsov’s memory,” I said, pointing to the St. George ribbon, which in recent years has become a symbol of patriotic activists and ardent anti -liberals.

- And what is it? Are these different things?! - the woman began to answer, but the old man silently took the stroller to the side, not allowing her to finish.

An elderly noble man conducted his survey of the participants in the procession.

- Tell me, can the geopolitical interests of the country be more important than human rights?

“No,” the woman answered him.

- Can economic well -being?

“No, of course,” the indignant answer followed.

- And how do you feel about [State Duma deputy, oppositionist] Dmitry Gudkov?

- Great!

- And to the [coordinator of “Open Russia”] Maria Baronova?

“I know her less, but rather good.”

- And to Andrei Klychkov?

- And who is it?

- Communist, deputy of the Moscow City Duma ...

- What are you? Communist? Negative! - the woman said with even greater indignation.

The police refused to let a man dressed in a death costume to a rally - he was wearing a black hoodie with a hood, with the inscription "corruption" across the belly, in his hands he held a fake braid.

- Corruption is not allowed! But law enforcement agencies must fight this corruption! The man with a scythe shouted loudly.

-Why did you come here? - one of the participants in the march asked the man.

- I'm a businessman! To start fighting corruption. Nemtsov fought corruption - he was killed.

“But this is a memorable march ...

- So what? All the same, it is necessary to restore the order, ”the man retorted (he passes with a scythe for every mass event of the opposition).

Before the start of the march and during the procession, most of the participants were mostly silent, someone chanted: “Russia will be free!”, “Kadyrov-Russia's shame!”, “We will not forget, we won’t forgive!” Some have conversations about politics, scraps of conversations came from all sides.

- The trouble is that Putin can now create anything, he is like a cat driven into a corner. Does he need Syria? No, he needs a new Yalta to sit in a circle of strong worlds ...

- It is abnormal to love your executioner, this is psychiatry ...

- I love to watch the world football championships, but categorically against it takes us at such a time ...

- Putin and the gas pipe, and the rest are free, no one thinks about the people ...

There were a lot of posters on the shares, not only giving up centrally by the organizers - “fight”, “I am not afraid” (a year ago there were almost only such posters on the procession), but also the copyrights: “Nemtsov - life, Putin - darkness”, “Vova, go to Ramzan”, “The lifelong president is a dictator, a tyrant, a despot, a vampire”.

Three men proudly carried the sayings of Nemtsov over themselves: “Our democracy has the same attitude to real democracy as a man to eunuch”, “The fresh air of freedom disappears, the musty Putin Russia is created,” “I am happy that I can tell the truth and not to repent to the miserable thieving authorities. Freedom is expensive. "

- I really respect this person. He is a fighter for people, for democracy, for the separation of powers. He fought for this, ”one of them, introduced to Nikolai, explained to me.

“Could he have overcome the authorities alone?”

- No, but he was the only serious candidate for the presidential election. He was a leader. For this they killed him.

- And now who is the leader? I specified.

“You know, we don’t really need the king.” In general, I do not stand as an individual, but for the parliamentary system.

A tall man in a down jacket, Roman, walked with a poster of "Nemtsov - the hero of my Russia." “The hero is one who goes against the system that suppresses the personality. Nemtsov walked against the system - it means he is a hero, ”Roman explained.

A familiar Chechen journalist specially flew from Grozny to "see how real marches pass, to which people do not bring people by buses." “Everything is completely different, people are completely different,” she told me and called me to visit the Grozny (people from Kadyrov’s entourage are considered involved in the murder of Nemtsov; in the investigation of the case, he refused to interrogate the Chechen leader).

Immediately after Trubnaya Square, the rise in the hill begins, and here journalists always accumulate to calculate the number of those who came to the march and remove the beautiful picture. Here a cheerful man with a gray beard came up to me.

- Do you think 70 thousand or 50 came?

- I think about 30 thousand.

- What are you! Of course, more.

- What do you think about Nemtsov? - I translated the topic.

- When the country is ruled by thieves, you need a leader. Now such a leader is Alexey Navalny.

The leader of the “Party of Progress” Alexei Navalny, who, because of the criminal record, cannot take part in the elections, just passed by the young fans, each of whom was photographed with him before the start of the march.

“He cannot run for,” I reminded.

- Let's make it!

- Navalny? So the law ...

- We will force Putin!

- How?

“When 300 thousand people come out - we will force it,” the man made the movement with his hand towards the people passing by. - And then I came running from the Portuguese language courses, and I went here alone from them.

- Why are you teaching Portuguese?

“I want to dump in Portugal, I like FADO ( traditional Portuguese music - approx. Medusa ),” he said and began to sing.

“But who will force Putin if you dump?” - I interrupted him.

-Let someone be younger. I have already made my contribution to the common cause, ”the man answered and went on.

The “White counter” organization counted 24 thousand people on the march, by tradition, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow counted much fewer people - only 7.5 thousand people.

Many of them came to the procession not only in order to honor Nemtsov’s memory. “I am bad about Nemtsov, like any professional policy, but it is impossible to kill for political reasons,” Alexei Polikhovich, who was released in the march, who had been released in the march, explained to me.

Two women came to the march of Nemtsov with posters "Ramenka. There is no killer road ”(residents of this Moscow region protest against the construction of a new road).

- Immediately like a march of the monument. And here is Ramenki? I asked.

- And we were also killed! - the woman almost screamed in response.

- And what about Nemtsov? He was killed, yes, and we beat women, ”another specified and took out photographs printed on the printer from the plastic bag. - You see what they do! I am lying in a snowdrift.

One of the columns was formed by supporters of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko , who is judged in Russian Donetsk. At the head of the columns, the lawyers Savchenko Mark Feigin and Nikolai Polozov were going on, between them - the sister of Nadezhda Vera. A Ukrainian flag fluttered over Feigina’s head, there was a woman with a poster on which the words of Friedrich Engels were written: “There are two ways to decompose the nation: punish the innocent and not punish the guilty.”

- In the last interview before his death, Nemtsov spoke of the fate of Savchenko. It is important that we gathered and all require her liberation, ”said Polozov to reporters.

Suddenly an elderly man approached the column.

- Shame on Bender's holfers! He began to scream in a well -set voice.

“We love you too,” they answered him peacefully because of the stretching “Save the Nadezhda Savchenko”. An elderly man was disagreed on the world.

“The legend of Sevastopol, impregnable for enemies,” he started the anthem of the city of Russian glory.

- No war! - They began to chant in the column. Savchenko’s lawyers were silent, looking contemptuously at the elderly man, obviously hoping that he would form and leave himself.

- Ganba to all Bandera! - He did not calm down.

“A shame for those who killed Nemtsov,” said a woman with a rose in her hands.

“Nemtsova is sorry, I sympathize with his family,” the man agreed.

- Who freed Sevastopol? Do you know the surname? - Vera Savchenko could not stand. “Maybe uncle, give you money to leave?”

- I'm in my homeland! But you leave, ”he answered.

Here, Feigin’s lawyer could not resist. He pushed the man in the shoulder and shouted: "Remove the bitch!"

Under the coordinated chanting of the column "Glory to Ukraine!" The elderly man by force was taken by force to the fences, where the police broke his arms behind him and took him to the lane. At that moment, Nadir Fatov, Nadir Fatov, walked past the Nadir Fatov Memorial on duty and shouted angrily towards the outrage of the calm: “He went out!” The policeman asked Zevak to disperse: "The circus is over, go further."

In addition to an elderly person, a man was also detained on the march - he was a mask with the image of Vladimir Putin.

There was a very few, but a loud column of nationalists in the rearguard of the procession. They chanted alternately “Russians against Putin”, “Glory to Boris Nemtsov”, “Cancel 282 ” and “Russia is Europe”.

“Previously, Nationalists did not particularly love Nemtsov,” I told the leader of the column, who introduced himself to Paul from the Committee “Nation and Freedom”.

“We joined the column of“ democratic choice ”, but in general we believe that everyone has difficult times and is not time to quarrel now,” he answered.

- One thing is to quarrel, another is to chant "Glory to Boris Nemtsov."

“We are ready to do this if it shows our good intentions to liberals who constantly criticize us,” Paul answered modestly.

The procession route ended where Sakharov Avenue crosses the garden ring. People walked past the graffiti of the Prochrevsky movement “Network” (it depicts a blender in which American and English piranhas float - they are preparing to destroy Putin, holding the hand at the Blender button) towards the metro. A police helicopter hung over the heads of citizens; White balloons flew to him, which people let go into the sky.

A man in a white helmet ran past with the inscription "Time", with the help of his mobile phone, he led an online broadcast of what was happening.

- And why is it written on the helmet “time”? I asked him.

- Isn't it time? He asked me instead of an answer.

- It depends.

“Take active actions - it’s exactly the time,” he answered, and ran on, again buried in the phone.

Ilya Azar

Moscow