"Our name is Boris Nemtsov"

In Moscow, several thousand people passed a mourning march along the Boulevard Ring. Mikhail Kasyanov, Grigory Yavlinsky, Ksenia Sobchak and Alexey Navalny walked in different columns

The march of memory of the opposition policy Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, February 25, 2018 photo of the author

In Moscow, on Sunday, the march of the opposition policy of Boris Nemtsov, shot down on the night of February 28, 2015 on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, was held on Sunday. The action in memory of the opposition is taking place in the capital for the fourth time. It first took place a few days after his murder: Nemtsov then prepared a protest campaign in Moscow, which was supposed to take place in early spring, but after his murder she acquired a mourning character.

Parnassus, Solidarity and Ksenia

The march was agreed with the Moscow authorities. The city hall agreed on the route from the passionate boulevard, then along the Petrovsky and Christmas Boulevards with the end on Sakharov Avenue. Fences were installed along the entire route, police and combatants were on duty. The automobile traffic was blocked, passers -by were not allowed into the territory of the agreed route. Participants gathered on a passionate boulevard, where the framework of metal detectors were installed.

At the exit from the metro at a passionate boulevard, a young man stood and distributed Ksenia newspapers to all the newspapers, which issues the presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak. "Where are her supporters gather here?" - asked the man, taking a newspaper from him. “Go straight, straight,” the distributor answered, pointing to the framework of metal detectors.

Some people stopped after passing the framework and waited for the declared time of the start of the action, the rest went forward to be built in columns.

Here, already beyond the framework, the defendant in the “Swamp business” Vladimir Akimenkov stood, who traditionally collects money to help political prisoners on mass shares of the opposition. This time he also came to an action with a small black box with a slot. Passing by the march participants lowered bills of different denominations into it.

At the head of the march was the largest column. According to the NT correspondent, several thousand people were going on in it. People carried Russian flags, the flags of the Yabloko party, the Solidarity movement, one of the creators and leaders of which was Nemtsov, as well as the flags of the Parnassus party.

Three Billboards on the Boulevard Ring

One of the participants in the march at the beginning of the main column went with the flag of the European Union. As he explained to the NT correspondent, he brought the EU flag to the march because "Russia is Europe." Nemtsov sought to make Russia a European country. Putin, denying the fact that Russia is part of Europe, chooses corruption and arbitrariness, the activist explained.

Some participants in the march brought home -made posters to the action. Many came with a “fight” with a slogan printed on a black background, which is found on the actions of Nemtsov’s memory annually.

Three activists brought posters on the march, stylized for red advertising shields from the film “Three Billboards on the Border of Ebbing, Missouri” Martin McDonakh. The main character of the film decided to draw attention to the investigation of the murder of her daughter with the help of inscriptions on three advertisements.

The march of memory of the opposition policy Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, February 25, 2018 Photo: Twitter / Baby Tseutnot

Three activists brought posters on the march, stylized for advertising shields from the film "Three billboards on the border of Ebbing, Missouri." On one of the posters it was written “Killed in front of the Kremlin”, on the second - “And still standing behind this?”, On the third - “How so, ruler Putin?”

The participants in the action decided to take attention in the same way to investigate the murder of Nemtsov, whose customer did not find. On one of the posters it was written “Killed in front of the Kremlin”, on the second - “And still standing behind this?”, On the third - “How so, ruler Putin?” (Killed in View of Kremlin, and the Man Behind It All is Still Free?, How Come, Chief Putin).

The march of memory of the opposition policy Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, February 25, 2018 photo of the author

"Why Syrian war, when in Russia poverty"

Following the main column were two small columns of nationalists. On the march, both columns came to speak out against “political terror”. About 20 people who were walking in one of them - carried imperial flags and stretching “Right block against political repression!”

Nationalists in the second column-about 30 people-carried the black and green flags of the "anti-Soviet resistance", as well as flags with Rurik's Falcon.

"So, do not bite!" - commanded the loudspeaker who was walking at the head of the column of the right -wing activist.

He shouted into the loudspeaker of the slogans, calling to terminate political repression in Russia and release political prisoners, who later picked up and began to chant the rest of the nationalists.

"Why is the Syrian war when in Russia poverty?!" - asked the leader of the column. “Why is the Syrian war when there is poverty in Russia! Cancel 282! " - the column picked up.

According to the OVD-Info, one of the organizers of the column of nationalists Vladimir Ratnikov and his assistant was detained at the entrance to the march, after which they took to the Tverskoy police department. The police also did not miss the banner of the nationalists “Russian, wake up! Russian, fight! " And flags with a Celtic cross. Later they were released from the department without drawing up the protocol, the banner was seized for examination.

In the main column, the slogans “Russia without Putin!”, “We will not forget, don’t forgive!”, “Our name is Boris Nemtsov”, “Putin is the enemy of the people!”, “Boris Nemtsov - Hero of Russia!” Closer to the end of the march also sounded the slogan "Ilon Musk, Putin to Mars"

At the entrance, the activist Daniil Dvinsky was also detained at the entrance. According to him, he asked to let him go faster through metal detectors, as he brought with him only a small poster “fight”. The police asked him to show his passport and detained him, referring to the fact that the document was crumpled. He was released from the Tver police department, drawing up a protocol under Art. 20.1 Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism) and 19.16 Administrative Code (intentional damage to the passport).

"Ilon Musk, Putin on Mars!"

The main stretch of the procession, which was carried by the column, was replaced several times. So, the march participants managed to carry the banners “these bullets in each of us”, “retaliation is inevitably” and “freedom is expensive”. Among those who carried a banner, including Sobchak.

In the main column, the slogans “Russia without Putin!”, “We will not forget, do not forgive!”, “Our name is Boris Nemtsov”, “Putin is the enemy of the people!”, “Boris Nemtsov - Hero of Russia!” and others.

Closer to the end of the march, the slogan “Ilon Musk, Putin on Mars” was also sounded - a call to the head of SpaceX, which recently launched his Tesla Roadster convertible to orbit. According to the forecasts of Canadian and Czech scientists, the car will wander in space for tens of millions of years, after which it will crash either into the ground or Venus, BBC reported.

Despite the abnormal seventeen-degree frost, which came to Moscow after an abnormal snowfall, the action was truly massive. People walked along the boulevards with an endless dense stream. According to the police, the number of participants in the action amounted to 4.5 thousand people, the organizers of the march give numbers from 7 to 20 thousand. Unlike the shares of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, which are mainly attended by schoolchildren and students, there were more adult contingent of the opposition on the march of Nemtsov’s memory, there were many elderly people.

According to the “White Counter”, there were more than 7.6 thousand people on the shares. Many opposition politicians took part in the procession, including Alexei Navalny, Mikhail Kasyanov, Ilya Yashin, Grigory Yavlinsky, Sergey Mitrokhin, as well as Dmitry and Gennady Gudkov.