The security forces smashed peaceful rallies throughout the center of Moscow and did not spare the journalists

The action in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow began two hours earlier. Already at noon, police officers began to detain people on Pushkinskaya Square, while still alone with posters. And after a couple of hours, when there were already so many that it was only possible to move to each other, the police and the Rosguard went on the attack: blows hit the protesters with batons - on the heads, feet, backs, and in the face. The security forces provoked a crush, which was not yet at any of the last actions - when even journalists shout “Help!”. According to Reuters agency, at least 40 thousand people gathered for promotions in Moscow. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the figure is 10 times less.

"One is a palace, another is a prison"

Pushkinskaya Square, 13.00

The only word is suitable for how the security forces acted today - “cruelty”. On Pushkinskaya Square, one could observe how a policeman leads a girl to a car carrier, holding her hair, how they throw a guy with a bloodied head after the detention, like journalists in vests, on which the “press” is written in huge letters, they are trampled and beaten along with the protesters.

About 15 hours there were already so many people that they did not fit not only on Pushkinskaya Square, but also at the Izvestia building, and from the opposite side of Tverskaya. People continued to approach from the Mayakovskaya station. At this moment, the security forces took a pause in the conveyor of the detentions and simply watched. There was practically no Internet, it appeared only occasionally.

The buzzing cars drove past.

Such support of the protesters from the motorists had not been observed for a very long time - you can only compare with shares in Khabarovsk.

People protruded from the windows of cars, showed the thumb up, smiled and simply reduced the speed to have time to wave their hand. An elderly man folded his hands over his head and shouted from the window standing at the pedestrian crossing: “I support! Freedom! "

It was a rather long moment of calm, when people simply talked, old acquaintances, even teachers and their graduates met. "Anna Nikolaevna, you are here too!" - exclaims the girl, standing by the arm with her friend. Two girls rush to hug their teacher, an elderly woman who leaned over to rest at the exit of the metro. “This is such injustice! This is an abomination. To their people, poor people. One is the palace, the other is a prison, ”Anna Nikolaevna says to her students. Nearby, ruffles are soaring for cleaning toilets (Yershik - one of the “characters” of the last investigation of Navalny about the luxurious palace in Gelendzhik) - they are raised by two women.

From the Izvestia building at the Zebra traffic light, mother and adult son are moving. He tells her: "Well, without Navalny, a meaningless action." She answers him: “So what, Makar? History is made by such “meaningless” actions. ”

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I was beaten on the back and head ...

Pushkinskaya Square, 14.30

“Mom,” I suddenly hear a whisper behind myself. Over a huge crowd on Pushkinskaya Square, several guys pass the barriers to each other, which the police installed at the monument. And this moment was a trigger for the security forces. Like snowballs who flew in their direction. In response, they decided to recoup on everyone who was opposite the cordon.

There were journalists in the front row. The conclusion from today's rally for journalists turned out to be like that. The yellow vest of the press saves from point detentions: you, even if it is far from always neat, but bypass, but here

When the team enters, for example, to take revenge on the fence raised into the air, no badzhik will save. &

I was in the front row, closest to the security forces. The first thing that stands in front of his eyes is huge black helmets, behind which at that moment the human eye is not even visible, and the hand that swung up and after a second is flaunting with a club. I was beaten on the back and head, and at some point I threw the phone on the asphalt, because I had to close my head with my hands.

But the worst thing at that moment is not a club, but the fact that right under me is a person. And there is horror because it can be crushed, but you cannot go anywhere. On top of me, I almost lies a police officer who at that time still manages to get a club of people after me. Then the most terrible sensation rolled - the feeling of a crush. When it presses on both sides, which comes up to terrible nausea.

Two operators helped me, who pulled my hands up: "Are you alive?"

In a similar situation was another journalist, Lisa Kirpanova. The security forces inflicted a strong blow to her with a club on the head, in traumatology they diagnosed the “soft tissue bruise”. Our photographer Vick Odissonova was defeated by the lens of the camera.

A crush is that the security forces today seemed to be consciously created. In previous protests in situations where the riot police chain began to “squeeze” the crowd from the square, it became crowded, but nevertheless they found themselves in some kind of space where you could breathe. This time it was different.

The police began stripping Pushkinskaya Square, trying to supplant everyone to the subway. But what happened in the end? The "law enforcement officers" began to replace the people, and on the opposite side, another chain of the police suddenly came - and these two chains went to each other. In fact, squeezing people.

- What are you doing?! You will strangle us, stop us! Please stop! - shouts a girl who was pressed to a sharp protrusion of the parapet at the exit of the metro.

At some point, I caught myself on the fact that even I shout "help!" Because you begin to choke, and around the panic. And it is possible to break this cordon only by the protesters, the police were not even going to shoot it in the near future. These are people who have already physically had nothing to breathe, they were able, putting up their strength, to help everyone closed in this trap.

Today, people helped each other a lot. More than once it was possible to observe this picture:

A teenager is dragging a teenager to the car carrier behind the scruff of the jacket, he rests his feet on the ground, and two women suddenly grab him and hide him into the crowd.

The man lies on the road, and he has been scored for so long, it is not known why, as if just because of sadism, and people are literally pulled out by the hands. Or when they crushed people, and many rested their faces against this sharp wall of the parapet, and they pulled them one by one to help just not suffocate.

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"Yes! Vali them! "

Kamerger Lane, 15.30

The protest does not end at the Pushkinskaya. People fill the entire area before leaving the metro near the Izvestia building. From the roadway they are enclosed by riot police and metal barriers. I cross the road, a group of protesters is coming towards me. I catch the gaze of a tall man in a fur hat with horns. In the similarity, there was one of the supporters of Trump, who broke through the security service on January sixth and seized the Capitol building. Not far from it is another protester with a gilded ruff for a toilet.

- This is the same, for several thousand euros? - the girl in a pink down jacket asks.

-How many people have come for a walk today! - A group of a guy is talking near the entrance to the subway.

From this it is clear that Tverskaya Street was filled almost to Mayakovskaya. Hundreds of people stand at the museum of modern history of Russia, a slightly less dense movement on the other side of the street. There are almost no security forces here, citizens calmly unfold posters and chant the chants. The slogans are unchanged: “Let go!”, “Freedom to Alexei Navalny!”, “One for all and all for one!” A man with glasses and a beige jacket carries in his hands a poster “Return the bulk and panties!”. All passing by the car signal. The audience jokes about the "Aquadiscode" and "Room for the Mud." Here, many are discussing the investigation about the “cottage in Gelendzhik”: retell the schemes described in it, recall fragments that have already been pulled on memes. Two women are talking to each other that it was possible to come here only with two requirements: to free Navalny and resign Russian power.

I will pass Tverskaya at the Stanislavsky Electric Theater to return to the main place of events. But people only arrive, so doing this is really difficult. The arrivals are joking that it will be easier to get to Pushkinskaya Square by bus. A small stream of people goes in the opposite direction. One of the protesters asks why everyone leaves when the rally has just begun.

“There are only auto -zaks and detention,” they answer.

For some time you can advance along the buildings, but the small Palashevsky Lane even does not manage to do this. Some begin to go to Tverskaya Street, about 20 people are trying to cross it. Others flock to alleys, in Sytinsky dozens of people. From the car, the caste song “Come out for a walk” dedicated to Belarusian protests plays loudly. Many sing along the lines “will cut, beat, be patient calmly. Anyway, you will drive, leave the house. ”

While they are cleaned up by Pushkinskaya Square, protest is flowing into the Novopushkin Square. There are definitely more than a thousand people, who came to see the cars of the Russian Guard and OMON, which is happening on the other side of the street: all parapets and even some trees are filled with people. In the depths of the square, someone blinded the snowman and attached to him the poster “Freedom to Navalny!”, Now girls and guys are photographed with him. Songs of punk groups "Porn films" play from the column. At one point, everyone begins to chant a new slogan - “Aquadiscot”.

Closer to four protesters begin to leave the Novopushkin square and move towards the Kremlin. It is impossible to get out of the underground crossing - the road is completely blocked by protesters. The security forces, meanwhile, blocked the adjacent alleys. One girl asks the police officer if she can go out for the fence to smoke, and then return. The policeman shakes his head menacingly in response.

However, nothing interferes with the protesters towards the Kremlin. Closer to the building of the central telegraph, many turn towards Kamergersky Lane. It is filled with hundreds of protesters, from Tverskaya street the number of people seems completely unimaginable. It turns out that no less and security forces. The entire passage from the alley was blocked by fences along which dozens of police officers and riot police were on duty in two rows.

It seems that they are indifferent to the protesters, they only limit the passage. People on both sides of the fences loudly chant the anti -Putin slogans, throw the security forces with snowballs, but there is no reaction, only some are approaching and politely asking to leave the street. The people do not leave. When it gets dark, dozens of flashlights light up in the air.

At one point, the security forces begin to form a hitch. To supplant people from the alley from the Tverskaya side, they need only a couple of minutes. Then, on an empty site, OMON employees are slowly built by columns. When the police begin to move the fences, everything becomes clear.

- Leave! - Cloud is heard over the crowd.

Hundreds of people trying to leave the street, moving towards the Kuznetsk bridge. OMONS RAM with batons run behind them, but they cannot catch up with anyone. In the crowd, the echoes are heard:

- Your action is not agreed!

- Yes! Vali them!

- Take it! - the security forces shout. But there are no detentions.

By the middle of the street, after the “set aside” command, the security forces form a coupling across the whole street and continue to move towards the Kuznetsk bridge (meanwhile, riot police overlap any approaches to the State Duma). In two stages, the street is empty. Protesters slowly scatter to the sides. Someone includes the "endless store" of Raper Husky.

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"Maybe on the sailor's silence?"

Passionate Boulevard, 16.00

Protesters from Pushkin Square were squeezed out, including towards passionate boulevard. The column, which did not manage to join the main route before the overlap, went to the passionate. The security forces blocked all the small lanes that led from the boulevard directly to the center.

"Overlaw, overlap, there is tin!" - It was possible to hear from the radio police.

At some point, the protesters on the passionate realized that they were unlikely to reach the Kremlin, and decided to move towards Trubnaya Square.

On the boulevard, the security forces blocked the car traffic, the entire passing part was occupied by protesters. When it was completely dark, tough detention began. Police, as a rule, beat people with a club before detention or poured them to the ground and beat them with their feet.

- What are you doing?! He just stood, did nothing! - the protesters were indignant.

Indeed, one could see that they were not the most violent, but those who simply stood one at a time from the main crowd.

On the roadway, a young man in Balaklava began to “play Salki” with security forces. He shouted to employees: "Come on, catch me!" In response to this, the police began to try to shame him and bring him to “weakly” so that he would come closer to them. The guy never ran, but

The security forces called his actions grabbed the teenager standing nearby with screams “What kind of jerk is this?”

They didn’t really stand on ceremony with journalists. Could rudely push or hit with a club. One of the employees without a helmet that I saw a few hours ago on Pushkinskaya Square, apparently, remembered me and, having met already on the boulevard, said that he should have delayed me “at our first meeting”.

In response to beating from the security forces, protesters begin to rush them with snowballs. On this basis, disputes arise between the demonstrators: the part asks to stop throwing something into the security forces, the other is indignant at it-they say, you don’t see how they treat us.

People from a passionate are squeezed towards Trubnaya Square. Thousands of protesters gathered there. Next to the Moscow circus of Nikulin, someone threw a smoke bomb, caustic gas is felt in the air. People took both sides of the road on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. The staircase leading to the circus is also clogged with demonstrators, they include flashlights on phones, passing by the cars alarm, from some the song “Everything will pass” the “Porn films”, which has become one of the main characters of protest over the past year.

- Police with the people! - shout at the pipe. At this time, the security forces catch all the “loners” and drag them into a car gut.

You can hear the protesters discuss a further plan of action.

- Maybe on the "sailor silence"? -says someone. It is in this pre -trial detention center that Alexei Navalny is now holding.

“Yes, for sure,” people around answer. - We need to get Alexei!

Closer to 7 o’clock in the evening, people really reached the Sailor's Sailor SIZO. The detentions continued there.

According to the ATS-INFO at 21.30, more than 900 people were detained in Moscow.

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