"Who do you want freedom?"

Despite the huge number of auto -zats in the center of Vladivostok, no one was detained

Supporters of Alexei Navalny and sympathizers walked in the center of the city with a huge yellow duck. It is worth noting that the rally coincided with the message of the president to the Federal Assembly-in fact, the townspeople associate the loyalty of the security forces with this.

After noon, the police and the Russian Guard from all over the Primorsky Territory, minibuses, auto-zats, municipal buses of the enterprise VPOPAT-1, which were used on January 31, were used to transport detainees, began to be pulled out to the central streets. Public transport stopped the second side, interfering with the movement. The frame was built in the construction of more than a hundred security officials in the parking lot behind the building of the regional government.

By 19.00 local time on the Square of Fighters for the Power of the Soviets of Journalists and Siloviki there were more than the protesters. Everything looked exactly as before the rally on January 31, when more than a hundred people were detained.

The police were on duty on the central streets, but, unlike the January rallies, one could pass without hindrance. Fearing the overlap and aggression of the police, the organizers in the telegram channel announced a new gathering point-the station area. There everyone sat peacefully on benches or talked in small groups, no one shouted a single slogan, the autozaks did not even drive up, the idyll was disturbed only by the drone flying over the protesters.

A supporter of Yabloko, the software developer Ilya Reinwald painted a poster on the spot with the words “Freedom of the Politsyki”. “I would like to have not to be political prisoners in the country. More than 200 people are sitting in the country for his beliefs, ”he commented. All those present were surprised when

The senior lieutenant of the police approached him and asked: "To whom do you want freedom?" I listened with interest to my last name: Tsvetkova, Dmitriev, Gabyshev, Navalny ...

Then he wished good luck, good -naturedly asked not to break the order and left. When another young man with the poster “No War, Repressions and Torture” stood next to Ilya and the DDT “Freedom” song sounded, the policeman just asked the guys to disperse 50 meters from each other so as not to violate the rules of single picket.

After about 30 minutes, the column (according to the correspondent of “Novy”, a 500 person) is very disciplined, on the sidewalks, it advanced to the local “Arbat” - Admiral Fokin Street. After with rare cries “Freedom! Freedom! ”,“ Navalny-a doctor! ”,“ One-two-three, Putin, go away! ” People went to the fountain on the embankment of a sports harbor. Nearby, the activists on the eve hid a surprise - a one and a half meter yellow duck of foam, for the manufacture of which (from idea to embodiment) it took about three weeks and 7 thousand rubles. The wheels were even attached to her, but still had to carry in her arms-in the center of Vladivostok in places the asphalt failed and “swam” and the paving stones went.

The column passed in a circle - to the station square, then along the railway tracks to the ship's embankment. Near the Memorial “The Fighting Glory of the Pacific Fleet” and the S-56 submarine, the traffic police through megaphones through megaphones asked the audience to disperse, but they had already turned back to Arbata. And the “platypes”, having broken off the main procession, lowered the foam duck on the water, and she swam in the dirty water of the Golden Horn with a view of the Golden Bridge.

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The regional investigative committee reported yesterday that the 39-year-old ship repair Alexander Olekhnovich received two years conditionally with a trial period of three years for the rally on January 23 grabbed a policeman by the hood of a uniform jacket and hit at least two times with his fist. Until that moment, Olekhnovich was in the pre -trial detention center of Vladivostok.

There was also information, so far unofficial, that a criminal case has been opened against the head of the headquarters of Navalny in Vladivostok Ekaterina Ostapenko under Article 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (involving minors in committing a crime - for the participation of children in unauthorized rallies on January 23 and 31).

The Primorye government today has spread a memo with the rules for holding rallies. And a memo on responsibility for participating in unauthorized rallies

Deputy Director of the Department of Internal Policy Olga Ivchenko explained why the organizers were refused the coordination of the rally. Firstly, in the region there is a resolution of the governor of March 18, 2020 (it prohibits mass events in connection with the danger of coronavirus spread; however, numerous concessions have since been adopted-including “charging for Putin”, fairs, concerts on the square and other cultural events have been held). And secondly, the notification for today's rally was submitted only yesterday-this violates the deadlines established by law (no earlier than 10 and no later than 5 working days).