Mark Halperin was detained on Pushkin Square. He said that he stood with a poster in support of Nadezhda Savchenko. After he rolled up the poster and walked away, he said, two unknown men ran up and unfurled a poster over his friends and cameramen. They shouted in support of Savchenko. Galperin believes that this was a provocation. Two unknown people were also detained.
OVD-InfosomethingLater, activist Elena Zakharova, who was also present on Pushkin Square, said that unknown persons unfurled their poster over Yevgeny Krylov, who stood with a folded poster. At this time, according to her, Galperin was about ten meters from Krylov. The police first grabbed Krylov and the two, and then Galperin went towards the metro, but the policeman chased him and detained him. Krylov was not detained as a result.
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