Violence and Zhirinovsky at the September 9 protest in Moscow. The shortest possible report

Pushkin Square is packed with people. Vladimir Zhirinovsky appears with guards, advises the protesters to create a party, quarrels with a participant in the action: “You yelled: ‘Get out’? Come here! Cowardly bastard! ”, Drops him to the ground and tries to beat him; leaves.

At the monument to Pushkin - young people: T-shirts "Civil Defense", posters "Born, Suffered and Died." They shout: “Putin stole our pensions”, “Sechin is in jail.” There are few pensioners. Elderly women scold Putin and say they took to the square “for the sake of their children and grandchildren.”

Navalny's headquarters coordinator Oleg Stepanov invites everyone to take a walk. After 300 meters, the walk ends at the security lines: Tverskaya Street was made pedestrian in honor of the City Day. The crowd turns back to the square, the police are blocking Tverskoy Boulevard.

An angry man tries to talk to the riot policeman: “I am a fitter. People under 65 do not survive at my job. Are you scared? Can you only talk in the paddy wagon?” The riot policeman turns away: "I'm shocked by them in general." The crowd goes for a walk along Bolshaya Dmitrovka, at the turn to the State Duma they are met by a cordon. The protesters are trying to break through - the police begin to wave batons. People panic and run.

The street is blocked with barriers. Some protesters are trying to break through and through them. An angry fitter is laid face down on the asphalt: four riot police wring his arms and legs. OMON squeezes the protesters out, selectively detaining the most active ones - and then their boss says: “We turn around, we leave.” Almost all the protesters have also already dispersed. 40 young people with posters remain near the monument to Pushkin - they say they are going to spend the night there.

Ilya Zhegulev

Photo in the announcement: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA