"Ivan Golunov is a writer, or what?"

How on Sakharov Avenue a rally "For Law and Justice for All" was held

On June 16, a rally under the slogan “Law and Justice for All” was held on Academician Sakharov Avenue. Initially, the organizers planned it as an action in support of Ivan Golunov. After the exemption of the journalist, they did not begin to cancel the event, 20 thousand people were expected on it. The Moscow police announced 1.6 thousand participants, in reality there were no more than 600 of them. Kristina Safonova, special correspondent of Medusa, tells how the agreed protest passed.

At noon on June 16, about 20 teenagers stand at the Red Gate station. Most of them have rolled red flags in their hands. On the chest of the badges - "Revolutionary Workers' Party." “We are going to a rally for freedom of speech on Sakharov,” Medusa says to the correspondent of Medusa and offers to join.

The organizers of today's rally are Pavel Gusev, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Moscow, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Russia Vladimir Solovyov and a member of the HRC Ekaterina Vinokurova. Unlike a march on the day of Russia, on June 12, on which more than 500 people were detained , the Moscow authorities agreed on Sakharov. One of the initiators of the first march Ilya Azar (before the start of the action, he left among the initiators) wrote on Facebook that the Sunday event is “this is a fake ... intercepting the agenda and an imitation of a response to a sincere“ popular outrage ”, which was“ reducing the mass of the march on June 12 and split the united front of the defenders of Ivan and (let's say gently) dissatisfied with the reigning reigning in the reigning. law enforcement agencies and orders and orders. " Azar added that one of the organizers of the rally offered him to postpone the march on June 16. The journalist refused, and soon after that the news appeared that the rally for Sakharov was agreed - although according to the law the application for the event must be sent in 10 days, and not in five.

Although the rally was supposed to begin at an hour of the afternoon and last two hours, the center of the traffic organization (DCD) blocked the movement on Sakharov Avenue from the evening of June 15 to the evening of the 16th. To get to the avenue is not easy and pedestrians. The entrance from the garden ring is blocked by police and the Russian Guard. They willingly advise everyone to get around and go from the side of Kalanchevskaya Street, where they installed the framework of metal detectors.

By half the first, about 300 people gathered on the avenue. Some crowded at the framework, others - the majority - stand at the scene, on the back of which the slogan is bred: "I/we Ivan Golunov." It is impossible to come close to the scene-it is protected by a fence for which they missed only on press cards. At the fence with posters are the journalists of Tula Pravda - the party newspaper of the regional committee of the Communist Party. In May, the police seized three newspaper numbers with a total circulation of more than 100 thousand copies-the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party and the editor-in-chief of Tula Pravda, Mikhail Fedorov, claimed that this happened due to the fact that the publication criticized the work of United Russia and reform in the field of waste management.

Together with the protesters is the entrepreneur and former leader of one of the largest development companies Miras Group Sergey Polonsky. “I sat in jail for two and a half years, my company was destroyed. Now the Turks are being built instead of us. <...> Those Turks are building, which I taught to build 15 years ago. I taught them! " - says Polonsky, strongly gesturing. He is listened carefully to the audience. “In a sober mind and common sense, 400 people gathered. And where is at all one State Duma deputy here? Are the State Duma deputies here? In, normal, not a single deputy is, ”the entrepreneur continues. - And where are the deputies of the Moscow City Duma? Is there one at least one here? Yes, they are a drum, you understand! "

“Sergey Polonsky said a rather correct thing: they removed the head of the drugs of the Western District ( this refers to the head of the internal affairs department of Moscow CJSC Andrei Puchkov - approx. Medusa ). Why only the western? What, the rest is better than doing? " - says "Medusa" student Vanya. He came to the rally with his classmate Andrei. Young people explain that they did not take part in the march on June 12, since he was not agreed with the authorities. But today they have the opportunity to express their position. “It can happen to anyone. Everyone began to intercede for Ivan because he was a media person. And if it touches me? The case will not become resonant. Plus, it's just unfair, ”explains Vanya.

Unlike students, not everyone present easily explain their participation in the rally. A couple of meters from the stage are several men and a woman. Many of them are tracksuits and caps. Only one of them agrees to communicate with the Medusa correspondent, the rest hastily step aside. “We were brought by the fact that we are people,” says Alexei, swaying slightly from side to side. - We are simple people, I'm from the village. We support a person that he is a person. ” The man adds that he learned about the rally from his friends and came to understand that the “this person” (he points to the scene where the name of Golunov is written) in his head, “draw his conclusions”.

A middle -aged man who introduced himself as a Medusa correspondent Volodya, works in the field of medicine. He came to the rally with his colleagues. “Maybe there will be some kind of congratulation. Today is a holiday, a medical worker's day, ”says Volodya. The man refuses to say who invited him. And to the question "Who is Ivan Golunov?" It suggests that this is a writer.

“We came here because we have known Ivan for a long time ...” - the teenager, smiling, is trying to make out the name written on stage. A friend comes to the rescue: "Golunova!" “We like what he does,” the first continues with relief. - He is well done, he was not afraid, for example, to speak out. And some people are afraid. We have a democratic country, and he was taken and imprisoned. Do we have freedom of speech in the country? I don’t remember exactly [for what statements he was imprisoned]. About the authorities, no? " Realizing that it makes no sense to lie further, adolescents begin to apologize for ignorance: “They found a site on the Internet. They said it should be supported. We can’t say anything else. ” To the question of the correspondent of Medusa, whether they will pay for participation in the rally, one says that he does not know, and the second nods confidently.

At about an hour in the afternoon, a male voice spreads along the avenue: "Dear friends, come to the stage, in a minute our rally will begin." During this time, the number of participants has almost doubled, but many are in no hurry to the stage. Some continue to stand aside groups, others stop at the book tradinger. Lev Dugin and “On Stalinism” by Leonid Lopatnikov), as well as love novels (“King of the intrigue” of Samuel Shellaberger), laid out their goods, among which are found in history and war (for example, “Requiem on the Unknown Soldier”, he laid out right on the asphalt.

From the stage they say that after the liberation of Ivan Golunov, the society has many questions, about the need to revise Article 228 and the rehabilitation of the people illegally detained and convicted. However, only the 228th article was not limited to the subject-they remembered the editor of the Dagestan newspaper Chernivik Abdulmumin Gadzhiev from the stage and the recently detained on suspicion of terrorism.

Among the speakers are the organizer of the promotion and the editor -in -chief of the Moscow Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, the journalist of MK and the member of the Public Council of the FSIN Eva Merkachev, the State Duma deputy and the leader of the Anti -Dirusia movement Dmitry Nosov - it was on the initiative of the Anti -Dilerthat the concerts of popular groups and performers in the regions were broken last year - as well as the host of the program “Time of Time” on the First Channel Anatoly Kuzichev (June 10, on the air of his program, he demanded to present the “iron evidence of guilt” of Golunov). “I was tired of the war, in fact, however,” Kuzichev said from the stage, referring to the journalistic solidarity manifested by Golunov’s colleagues. “A reason to say about each other“ we ”, to support each other before such a clear, glaring injustice - it is worth a lot.” They called at the rally to perform Ivan Golunov himself, but he did not respond to the invitation.

Alexey Vishnevetsky, deputy chairman of the Union of Journalists, proposed an audit of the cases of all convicts and contained in jail under the 228th article. After that, he invited several parents to the stage, whose children were also judged or judged under Article 228. Among them was the mother of Andrei Evgeniev, a journalist of the Zvezda television channel, who received three years in prison in 2016. Evgeniev does not admit his fault, and recently the State Duma deputy Sergei Shargunov submitted a request to the Prosecutor General to investigate the possible forgery by the police who detained the journalist.

Everyone is offered to speak to sign up. “We have an absolutely free rally,” comes from the stage. At the same time, the journalist and one of the organizers of the event Ekaterina Vinokurova complains that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not miss her. After about half an hour, Vinokurova still manages to break through to the stage. “They missed me, simply because the organizers saw me. I was offered to bypass. I believe that this is rudeness, ”Medusa said Vinokurov.

She agrees that the rally did not come to the rally as much as the organizers expected. “I don’t really understand why this happened, but this has already happened, namely: I am not an organizer. I signed number three. <...> The organization was engaged in the Union of Journalists, in which, by the way, I do not meet. <...> At the same time, I was called the main organizer and almost the employer of Frikov. This is not true. As a person who does not have regional branches and so on, it is difficult for me to answer questions who came and why these, and not others came. ” From the stage of Vinokurova, she voiced “My request for my colleague in Russia Today Maria Baronova that in addition to journalists, activists of unfair accusations often suffer: for example, now the young mother of Anastasia Shevchenko is under house arrest for organizing a coordinated rally” (Shevchenko consists in the Open Russia movement, whose participants are participants. They are persecuted for belonging to an “unwanted organization”).

There are more people with posters on the avenue. Some support Golunov and oppose the 228th article. Others urge to pay attention to the affairs of illegally convicted journalists and activists. Several women hold posters with the image of Svetlana Lada-Rus ( Svetlana Peunova was engaged in traditional medicine, and was also the chairman of the All-Russian political party "Volya". Now she is on the federal wanted list and in absentia is arrested on charges of fraud and intentionally causing serious harm to health-approx. "Medusa" ). There are many those who brought housing problems to the rally: they ask to save the house from demolition under the renovation program or return the apartment taken by scammers.

The student of the Faculty of Philology Saveliy says that he did the poster for the first time. On it - "Solidarity I/we = 12 = 16 = 23 ... without borders!" “The first date is the inconsistent rally. The second is the one that is now. And the latter is the future. Multiples means that there should be a continuation. That is, no matter what the event it was. Still, this is better than nothing. If we have the opportunity, we must pay attention and expand the boundaries, ”Savely explains. He adds that another message of the poster is that there should be no split, you need general tactics.

“[The case of Ivan Golunov] Another reason to think about the power that can capture any person. We do not see her, but it may happen that she can concentrate and disconnect a person from life, plans. When you understand that this is the same power that protects us, mixed feelings arise, ”says Savely.

At the beginning of the third, people begin to leave the rally, although the event has not yet ended. “Valera, now the general will look at you. You can’t leave a group, two or three people, ”a woman shouts at a large man in a suit. Then he says a girl standing with her: “Give them a bus number.”

Valera seems to be "Medusa" Kuzmenko Valery Vladimirovich. He explains that he decided to take part in the rally, because he does not want one of his loved ones and friends of far-fetched accusations to "take the scruff of the scruff and throw it into the casemate." “I want the power to be responsible. I myself am for power, a veteran of war, ”Kuzmenko adds. He did not hear about the action on the day of Russia, but he calls the current rally “one of the first sprouts”. “If this movement is normal, if no one begins to use it for any left-right goals, then it will gain strength, there will be more people. When people understand that they can influence some decisions, it will inspire them, ”says Valery and goes to the exit from the avenue.

At this time, an extremely excited woman acts from the stage, who introduced herself as "Pleshakova Vera Grigoryevna, Donbass, Lugansk region." She confusedly, through sobs tells the story of her son (“saved him from the war, brought him to Moscow”), who was allegedly taken from his entrance in the north of Moscow last year at three in the morning, was beaten at the police department, after which he died in hospital No. 81, and since then she has been trying to achieve justice. The woman did not name the name of her son, and it was not possible to find the traces of this story “Medusa”.

Update of June 17. The Medusa editorial office applied to the Moscow branch of the committee against torture. They said that the checkpoint conducted his own investigation of the incident, which Vera Pleshakova spoke about at the rally, and came to the conclusion that the police in the death of her son, most likely, was not. Most likely, Pleshakov died due to the fact that, sitting on the bench in the cell in a state of intoxication, lost his balance and fell back in the back of his head to the curb (something like a plinth strongly protruding from the wall)-the moment of fall is on the video. Police officers called him an ambulance, but they could not save Pleshakov.

“Where are all people? Then they will say that there were 20 thousand! " The man shouts, heading for the stage. He seems to be Vladimir Karasyuk and explains that he came to the rally to look at the number of participants. “I am against [inconsistent shares]. Get ready here as much as you want. They invited 20 thousand, no one came. But there [on the march on June 12] they came to extinguish. They do not need a rally, they need a scandal. In Paris, “yellow vests” were neatly laid with acid. Not that our hands and legs [carried away]. You went out, you interfere with people, Muscovites and guests of the capital to rest! ”

Karasyuk does not have time to reach the stage when they announce the end of the rally in the microphone. On the watch only half of the third. The protesters remaining at that time are in a hurry to leave the avenue. In the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Interfax will talk about 1,600 participants in the rally, although the Medusa correspondent managed to count a maximum of 600.

Kristina Safonova