Not a single detention

How the most calm inconsistent procession went on the last day of summer in Moscow. Report "Medusa"

On August 31, in Moscow from pure ponds to Pushkinskaya Square, an inconsistent procession was held against political repression. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 750 people took part in it, according to the Medusa correspondent, several thousand. Unlike past inconsistent shares, this Saturday was done at all without detention. The police simply made sure that the protesters did not go to the roadway. Medusa correspondents watched the most peaceful protest procession of this summer, as well as a concert organized at the same time, where Olga Buzova and Tim Belarusian spoke.

Procession

About an hour of the afternoon, at the monument, Alexander Griboedov on Chistoprudny Boulevard is a woman with a poster “Political prisoner - freedom! Putin's organized crime group - on trial! " Near her, journalists are crowding. They are waiting for the beginning of an inconsistent procession against political repression. Like August 24, the Moscow authorities rejected all applications for protests this Saturday.

A woman with a poster seems to be a Medusa correspondent Olga Nazarenko. She is 44 years old, she works as a teacher in one of the universities of the city of Ivanovo, and therefore, according to her, it is not often on promotions. “[I don't care, because] the elections to the Moscow City Duma in miniature reflect the situation with the“ elections ”throughout the country. Everywhere we do not allow those who are dangerous for the authorities. We have falsification everywhere, ”says Olga. - People who put signatures spat in the face, said that their opinion was not interested in anyone. For me, this is as if they spat on my face. There is no longer about the elections, but about self -esteem. It is impossible to wipe yourself silently when they constantly spit in the face. ” Nazarenko adds that criminal cases against participants in peaceful actions were another reason to join protest.

Near the teacher from Ivanovo, several more people unfold posters. The audience ask them to move 50 meters so as not to violate the law. But soon there are so many picketers that they stop monitoring them. However, a few police officers stand aside and do not pay attention to violations. There is only one car carrier on the boulevard, a few more police cars in Bobrovka Lane.

By two hours, several hundred people gathered on pure ponds. Among them is one of the founders of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky and an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Alexander Solovyov. The latter assures the journalists that the procession will take place, no matter how many people come to him: “I am happy with any number of people. I usually do not listen to those who say that the protest went on decline. Sorry, people beat, and people really continue to go out. It's cool. "

Suddenly, the crowd begins to applaud and move towards pure ponds, but stops almost immediately. After a few minutes, someone shouts: "Let's go." The gathered not immediately, but pick up the slogan. Several thousand protesters move towards Sretensky Boulevard, chanting: “We are here power”, “This is our city”, “For Russia without Osra”. Police and traffic police officers not only do not interfere with them, but also help to cross the road.

On Sretensky Boulevard, a group of feminists from the Socialfem Alternative joined the processors. For two months they tried to get from the Moscow authorities the coordination of the action in support of the Khachaturian sisters, but to no avail. Now they head the procession, carrying a large pink banner with the inscription: “Do not wait for the fate of the sisters of the Khachaturian! Stroy Movement against domestic violence. ”

Love Sobol took part in the action, previously urging everyone to go on Boulevard on Saturday. The FBK lawyer told the journalists who surrounded her about the need to participate in the September 8 elections according to the Smart Voting Strategy. “[So we can] take out all these United Russia from the Moscow City Duma. Show that all these arrests, all these night searches for candidates, all these detention of students and their maintenance in jail, they do not work, says Sobol. - The society will not back down. We are still stronger, because we are Muscovites. ” Alexei Navalny, on the contrary, did not appear on the procession, explaining this by the fact that it was necessary to promote a “smart vote”. And he would be "arrested for 30 days."

Protesters go along the boulevards to Pushkinskaya Square, chanting: “Let go”, “allow”, “Putin is lying”, “This is not an election, this is a shame” and “Russia will be free”. On Petrovsky Boulevard, a woman in a red dress shouts: “Look, I'm unarmed, I have only a word. But they don’t plant a word! ” “They are planted,” one of the participants in the procession replies to her. The woman only smiles. "Sobyanin resigned!" - shouts a boy walking next to her. The crowd picks up. The police still do not interfere with the shares, only that no one goes to the roadway.

Promotion on Pushkinskaya Square

“Dear citizens, the action has not been agreed,” the female voice belonging to a tourist police officer meets participants in Pushkinskaya Square. The girl repeats the phrase in a megaphone, but sometimes interrupted to hide from the cameras.

Feminists from the "Alternative" become next to the monument to Alexander Pushkin. Almost immediately, a guy in a white T -shirt runs up to them, grabs a pink banner, throws him to the ground and tramples his feet. A man is trying to protect the girls, the provocateur (and then another man) begins to beat him. Journalists detach the fight. This will be the most serious incident for the whole day.

A few minutes later, someone notices the Rosguard and OMON employees running to the square, as well as a column of autosaks. Some people manage to go along Tverskaya towards the city hall - they will pass a new Arbat and reach the Novinsky Boulevard. But the majority remains in a double cordon - the security forces surround the entire area, holding hands. But no one is delayed. An hour later, the cordon is completely removed. One of the riot police explained to the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Lisa Kirpanova that they had “ended with a working day”.

By this time, several hundred protesters were going to “walk” towards Petrovka and further along the Boulevard Garden. They are trying to go to Sakharov Avenue, but the road to the festival is closed to them. They continue the procession.

A few hundreds of participants in the action remain at the monument to Pushkin. One of the lanterns was occupied by the 15-year-old Yegor and his friend. Next to them are the drawings of Yegor. The first, drawn at night, is dedicated to the "Planet Kremlin", it depicts an elderly Putin surrounded by poems about "Order 212". On the other - the TV and the inscription " Thomas Mor ". On the third there is a snake resembling the coat of arms of Russia. “I do not decide anything in this country, in order to show my art,” Yegor says Medusa correspondent. And in parting adds: “I touched the thigh, but there is no burn. So not a jellyfish, but a package. "

The VGTRK correspondent Yaroslav Krashenko arrives at Pushkinskaya - on previous protests, he was repeatedly booed for a biased serving in reports. Krasenko could not work this time. People followed him with cameras and a column, on which they turned on that melody from the "Village of Fools", then a fairy tale. Someone even tried to take an interview from the VGTRK correspondent, but he refused to answer questions about earnings, state affiliation of Crimea and objectivity in his own work.

By seven in the evening, about 50 more people remain in the square. Among them are the 27-year-old Philip Kuznetsov, standing at the monument under an umbrella with the inscription: “2 + 2 ≠ 5”. He explains to the Medusa correspondent that he puts the “struggle for truth” in this example. “This summer some events took place, and the people united, began to come out,” says Philip. - I am proud of everyone who went out today. I am insanely happy that people began to wake up and bold. ”

Concert on Sakharov

Last weekend, the city hall spent a rally-concert on Academician Sakharov Academician, dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the Russian flag, this time there is a festival in honor of the last day of the summer “Pro Summer”. Despite the fact that the event was focused on schoolchildren and students, for whom they organized sports areas and picked up performers, listen to Tim Belarusian and Christina Si came mostly adults. Before the start of the festival, organized groups of people gathered at the entrance. Some participants in such groups admitted that they came to the event at the request of the authorities, while others denied and said that they learned about the concert on the Internet and "decided to celebrate the last day of summer with colleagues." “We have a working day today, but we were told that you can come here, so to speak, on a voluntary-compulsory basis,” Mosvodostok, an employee of Mosvodostok, explained to Medusa.

During the gathering of guests near stands with free distribution of Pro Summer T -shirts, there was a queue, some took several pieces at once. “We are all from the RGUTIS, we came to listen to what, we liked the T -shirts, we decided to put them on,” said a group of ten girls. At the beginning of the show, a two -minute advertising screensaver of the Russian Youth Union sounded. The Comedy Club stand-up comics came to the warm-up, which, it seemed, did not notice the audience. The loudest was applauded and sang along with Olga Buzova. After Buzova’s performance, visitors began to leave, by five in the evening in the territory of “Pro Summer” the crowd became half as much. According to the city hall, 20 thousand people came to the festival.

Continuation of protest

At about seven o'clock in the evening, after all in Pushkinskaya Square and pure ponds, all the activists went down the boulevards to the embankment and tried to get to the Kremlin on it. At the park, Zaryadye stopped the policeman chain, offering the protesters to turn around and go back. They returned to the Ustinsky square near the high -rise on the Kotelnikiye embankment, but after an hour and a half they decided to try to go to the Kremlin again.

By this moment, there were no more than 20 people in the protesters with journalists. As follows from the broadcast of the Ruper of Moscow, a dozen police officers again blocked the assembled road on the sidewalk. And even when one of the activists tried to run away on the roadway, she was seized by two policemen, returned to the sidewalk, but did not detain. After some time, the police were given the command “Chain - to transport!”, They released the sidewalk and left. A dozen activists began to discuss where to go now.

Kristina Safonova, Anna Bobrova