Shares on October 7 in Russia. Main

Activists disappeared in Kaliningrad; In Yakutsk, a student was broken by his nose

The protests of the supporters of Alexei Navalny on October 7 passed (and continue) in dozens of Russian cities. Activists demand to allow the founder of the Corruption Foundation (is under arrest for calls for an inconsistent action) to the presidential election in 2018. The organizers stated that the shares will be held in 80 cities; About two in the afternoon in Moscow, the headquarters of Navalny said that about 30 cities had already participated in the action. There are no accurate data on the number of protesters yet-somewhere activists stood in single pickets, in other cities (for example, in Novosibirsk), the organizers estimated the number of participants at several hundred.

The detention began before the start of the shares. At least in eight cities, employees and volunteers of Navalny’s headquarters were detained in advance. In Krasnodar and Smolensk, the coordinators of the headquarters on the night of October 7 managed to appoint administrative arrest. Activists of Navalny’s headquarters in Kaliningrad reported the disappearance of two employees. One of them, Oleg Alekseev, stopped in touch on the path to the headquarters, which he had to open; By evening, it turned out that Alekseev was in the police. Where the second activist Andrei Stepanenko is located is still unknown.

By 20:00, at least 262 people were detained, Meduza was told in the OVD-Info. Most detained in St. Petersburg are at least 66 people. In Yaroslavl, 54 people were detained. 20 people were detained in Lipetsk, 14 in Yekaterinburg, in Tula-12, in Saratov-11, in Samara and Bryansk-10 each, in Nizhny Tagil and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (single pickets passed there)-eight people. In all these cities, actions were not agreed.

In some cases, the detainees were released without drawing up protocols (as in Samara), other participants were accused of committing administrative offenses. In Yekaterinburg, where the mayor Evgeny Roizman came to the action, one of the citizens during the detention became bad, he lost consciousness . Roizman condemned the actions of the police, saying on the air of “rain”, which considers them excessive.

In Samara, protesters went around two departments in search of detainees. The three organizers were detained on the way to the rally; A few more people were detained at the action itself (at that moment there was a concert in another part of the square; such parallel events took place in other cities - in Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg, these were shares in support of the independence of Catalonia). Several dozen people went to the police station, where it was supposed to be detainees, but they were transported to another department. As a result, all detainees were released. This is how it looked:

In Yakutsk, police beat one of the detainees. According to the publication Sakhaday, this is a student of the North-Eastern Federal University Vadim Vasiliev; During the detention, he was beaten with a club, breaking his nose and knocking his teeth. Kommersant wrote that the victim was taken to the hospital, however, according to Sakhaaday, at midnight in local time (18:00 Moscow time) Vasiliev is still in the police department; The lawyer was not allowed to be allowed to be, and “all the city authorities” supposedly gathered in the department for “explanatory work”.

Later, Vasiliev was released from the police - according to the lawyer Felix Antonov, he refused to communicate with him, saying that "himself fell", the New Gazeta reports .

The most massive shares were held in Moscow and St. Petersburg -the exact number of participants is unknown, but we are talking about hundreds of people in each of the cities. In Moscow, where they protested on Tverskaya Street, there were practically without detention-the OVD-info reports that two people were detained. In St. Petersburg, the demonstrators first came to Marse Field, after which they went to the foundry of the avenue, where they broke through a police cordon. In preliminary estimates, dozens of people were detained; There is information about the victims.

The detailed report of the Medusa correspondent Sasha Sulim about events in Moscow read here .

Victor Davydov