In Moscow, near St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square, Yevgeny Vertlyukhin was detained, who was standing in a solitary picket with a poster "Stable promises of the president are the guarantor of civilized corruption." This was reported to OVD-Info by Vertlyukhin himself.

The picketer managed to stand on the square for about ten minutes when police officers approached him. Vertlyukhin was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department, where he was threatened with a heavy fine. It is not yet known what exactly he is charged with.

16:40 The detainee was released from the police department with an administrative protocol under the article on violation of the rules for holding the event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On Red Square, people are regularly detained, organizing actions and single pickets on it. On July 15, the police detained members of the Memorial Human Rights Center and a journalist from Novaya Gazeta, who staged a mass picket in memory of the deputy head of the Memorial branch in Chechnya, Natalya Estemirova, who was killed 10 years ago. there A journalist was also detained with a blank sheet of paper.
In March, stylist Sergei Zverev took to Red Square with a solo picket against the construction of a plant on Lake Baikal. After that, he was summoned to draw up a protocol, and then fined 15 thousand rubles. Using his example, we analyzed how street actions on Red Square are regulated.

A picketer with a poster about the president and corruption was detained on Red Square