"And then they carried me"

Monologue Olga Lozina, the heroine of one of the main photographs from the Moscow protest rally

One of the most striking photographs from Sunday against corruption in Moscow was a frame at which several police officers carry a girl in a white coat to a car zakak. The Special Corps of Medusa Ilya Zhegulev found this girl in the Cheremushki police department, where she, together with another thirty people, is still waiting for the arrival of investigators from the Investigative Committee-and recorded her monologue, as well as a monologue of one of her neighbors in Avtozaku.

Olga Lozina

introduced herself as a "graduate of physical

Mom and my sister and I came to the center of Moscow. At that moment, we returned from McDonald's [on Pushkinskaya], went towards the Belorusskaya metro station, then to go to the house later. But the police blocked the road ahead. A crowd of people walked towards us - [they] said that [the police] did not pass further, and we need to go back. [Police] artificially created a huge accumulation of the people, unfolding and sending everyone who reached the Belarusian, back towards the stream.

And suddenly riot police jumped out and simply began to grab people. There was such a flowerbed with flowers - I stood at her to see where the border of the crowd. OMON demanded urgently get off the flowerbed. Everyone got down quickly; The latter, who tears, a young man, began to hardly be taken to a car zap, breaking their hands. My mother was near and asked: why are you grabbing him? Then they grabbed my mother. And then sister. They were taken - and I followed them, not even realizing that they were also delayed.

At some point, the crowd pushed me away, but I went to the police again. And here they already carried me. I would not say that they rudely detained me - they carried me carefully enough. I myself would go if they told me what reason they delay me. But I did not even have time to ask. Then we were thrown into a car zak, in which it was very stuffy - 32 people in one car zak. And even when we arrived, we were not released for a long time - about an hour. We brought us to the Cheremushki department, and so far we are here - they don’t tell us anything, and we do not know when they will let us go.

Olga Orlova

Teacher, radio host

They detained us at 16 o’clock on Tverskaya closer to the Eliseevsky store. They actually detained a family: first one sister, then the second, then I was old, they just held on to each other. If someone turned to the police [and asked]-for which you are delaying, they were also immediately grabbed. If young people at least somehow resisted, they were harshly knitted. I did not show resistance, they just grabbed me from the crowd. We all shouted “shame!”, When they very rudely beat the young man. Moreover, there were no insults and posters. They just stood and shouted. Several people were with the flags of Russia - they were immediately left [to the autozak].

[In the Cheremushki police department] we were at first 32, now 22 people left us, of which three minors were left - they are not allowed either, although their parents have come for them for a long time. Now the Investigative Committee has arrived. From minors tried to take fingerprints, we repelled them. One child of the 17-year-old was given a protocol, where it is written that he ran out to Tverskaya, shouted, insulted the police. And this is complete lies, he did nothing like that, this is a child of a botanical appearance. Of course, he did not sign this protocol.

Ilya Zhegulev recorded