Like on a stone wall

Feminists promotion in the Kremlin

In Moscow in the Alexander Garden, participants of the feminists and journalists illuminated the event were detained. This is stated in the message of the organizers of the action received by the editorial office of the "faces".

Activists climbed onto the Kremlin wall from the Alexander Garden, lit smoke bombs and launched a banner of "200 years in power. Down!".

In addition, inside the Kremlin, participants in the action launched posters with the slogans “Woman - to the President”, “We are the majority”, “Woman - to the patriarchs”, “All power - women”. The Banner "National Idea - Feminism" by the activists managed to fix it on the arsenal tower of the Kremlin. "The inscriptions were made on skirts and scarves, so the participants managed to take inspection," the report said.

“In Russia, the equality between men and women is declared,” activists said. “However, in fact, this is equality - myth. The difference in wages between men and women for equal work according to Rosstat is 40 percent. Obligations for children are never divided, which turns a woman into an employee who is not profitable for the employer. A lower retirement age is also the reason Discrimination in work on all status posts prefer to see men. "

According to the OVD-Info, activists Elena Tishchenko, Alexander Orlova, Marina Timofeeva, Leda Garina, photographer Arkman Arden and Novaya Gazeta journalists Elena Kostyuchenko and Anna Artemyeva were detained. They were delivered to the China-Gorod police department.

After a few hours, all the detainees were released . The police held a "preventive conversation" with them, some took fingerprints. Protocols on offenses did not constitute.

The action was dedicated to International Women's Day.

Photos of Alexei Abanin, Lidia Khmelevskaya, Katrin Nenasheva, Arden Arkman, Elena Kostyuchenko:

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On March 8, in Moscow, according to tradition, shares are held for gender equality and against LGBT discrimination.

March 8, 2013 in the Novopushkinsky square there were clashes of demonstrators with the police (

VIDEO ). At the agreed rally of Yabloko for the equality, which was held under the slogan “feminism is liberation”, the police detained the activist Elena Olozhkin with the flag of “freedom or death”. Other participants in the rally tried to prevent the detention, a fight began. In total, more than 20 people were detained.

The police ordered to complete the rally long before the agreed time of its completion. Several groups of provocateurs came to the rally, which shouted sexist and religious slogans, sprayed the odorous fluid and started brawls. At the beginning of the rally, two activists were detained, who deployed the poster "Tolerance decomposes society." "Orthodox activists" led by Dmitry Enteo chanted "Moscow NOT SODOM."

On March 8, 2014, in Moscow, nationalists organized several attacks on a coordinated demonstration of feminists (

VIDEO ).