
In St. Petersburg, a participant was detained by the LGBT-Specnaz campaign on February 23, Peter Voskresensky. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to human rights activist Dinar Idrisov.
On the evening of Monday, police officers began to break up to Voskresensky home. The activist opened the door; He was seized and taken to OP-78. There, on Voskresensky, a protocol is drawn up under article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for conducting public events). In the department there are TSPE operatives, as well as, according to the police, one of the deputy chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
The security forces also came to several more activists. According to "Mediazons", this is Alexey Sergeev, Peter Trofimov and Georgy Zhukov; OVD -Info with reference to activist Irina Yatsenko gives another name - Alexei Nazarov. Sergeyev did not open the door to the security forces, and Visiters came to Nazarov at the old address where the activist no longer lives.
Earlier, the speaker of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly , Unenosos, Vyacheslav Makarov called the LGBT special forces protesting on January 28 in the Isaac's Cathedral against the transfer of this monument to the Russian Orthodox Church. Then a rally took place on the Marse field, after which a dozen with a small participants went into the cathedral, took out sheets of paper with printed letters and lined up so that the letters on the sheets formed in the phrase "museum - city".
The LGBT-Specnaz campaign, dedicated, as its participants noted, "the emergence of a new type of troops", took place on Bolshaya Morskaya Street. About a dozen activists read out the "LGBT-Specnaz" oath and raised a rainbow flag, after which they were "shot". One of the participants kept a photo of Makarov, behind which a soldier stood. The photo was decorated with a ribbon in the colors of the rainbow flag.