Dozhd journalists detained on Lubyanka Square

Journalists of the Dozhd channel Vladimir Romensky and Vladimir Komissarov were detained on Lubyanskaya Square. This was reported on the Rain website.

Journalists covered the action of the Orthodox activist Dmitry Enteo and the "Decommunization" movement, dedicated to the state terror that took place in the USSR. According to activists, the FSB is the successor to the Cheka and the KGB.

Romensky and Komissarov were detained to "clarify the circumstances." According to Romensky, the activists who participated in the public event managed to leave.

The protesters walked around the building on Lubyanka and told the cameras about the people who died during the Great Terror. Then they stopped to stick stickers on the house at 11 Bolshaya Lubyanka Street with inscriptions that formed the sentence "Here the Chekists killed people." After that, Enteo smashed a bust of Dzerzhinsky on the sidewalk.

UPD 16.30: Vladimir Romensky and Vladimir Komissarov were taken to the Meshchansky police department.

UPD 18.00 Dozhd correspondent Vladimir Romensky and cameraman Vladimir Komissarov were released from the Meshchanskoye police department. The journalists were obliged to write explanatory notes, the police officers did not draw up protocols.