Participants in a series of pickets against pension reform were detained in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospekt, two participants in a series of single pickets against the pension reform, Natalya Rybalko and Yevgeny Tarasov, were detained. Rybalko herself reported this to the OVD-Info hotline.

According to her, she stood with a banner “Enough for us to close holes in the budget at the expense”, after which a policeman approached her and took her to a company car. Then Tarasov was put into the car. The detainees are being taken to police station No. 76.

UPD 19:00 Mediazona, citing Mikhail Lebedev, a member of the Detained Assistance Group, writes that during a series of single pickets, a total of seven people were detained. They are all being taken to Police Station No. 76.

UPD 19:10 Natalya Rybalko confirmed information about seven detainees. In addition to her and Zakharov, Vyacheslav Smirnov, Alexander Maksimov, Anton Cherepov, Sergey Nikolaenko and another minor are in the department. According to Rybalko, the police search the detainees without witnesses.

UPD 23:18 Rybalko told OVD-Info that six detainees were released from the department without protocols. The juvenile detainee will be released after his parents come for him.