In St. Petersburg, participants of the rally in defense of the square were detained. They brought a concrete “bag” to Smolny

In St. Petersburg, near Smolny, the police detained residents of the Novaya Okhta residential complex and a journalist from Piter. TV" during the action in defense of the square, they write in the telegram channel "Protest Petersburg".

The activists brought a concrete "bag" to the building of the Smolny Institute. It is two meters high and weighs 300 kilograms. Fontanka writes that it was carried by seven people. So people expressed their attitude to the fact that they are going to build a shopping and entertainment center on the site of the green zone between the ring road (KAD) and Marshak Avenue.

The detainees were taken to police station No. 76. It is not known how many people were detained.

20:20 The activists were released from the department, the Detained Aid Group writes , citing a relative of the detainee.

22:12 Journalist "Peter. TV” Nadezhda Putintseva was fined 500 rubles, writes “MBKh Media”.

April 25 Later, the “Detained Aid Group” corrected the message in the telegram channel. According to her information, only women were released from the department.

19:55 According to St. Petersburg human rights activists, on April 25, the Smolninsky District Court fined one of the detainees, Alexander S., 20 thousand rubles under the article on organizing an uncoordinated event. Information about other court decisions is not yet available.