Picketer Mikhail Suslin was detained on Red Square in Moscow with posters "Freedom to Viktor Medvedchuk " and "Vladimir Zelensky is a political usurper." He himself told OVD-Info about this.
The man was taken to the Kitai-Gorod OP, but was released from there without a protocol, with the posters confiscated.
- were also detained On July 23 , picketer Kirill Yakovlev, who came out with a “No to war” placard, and Kirill Markov, who was photographing him, on Red Square. Protocols were drawn up against both men under articles on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and violation of the rules for participating in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
- Participants of actions on various topics are regularly detained on Red Square: eco-activists , picketers with posters about Putin , against repression and torture , in support of political prisoners ; they also detain actionists who held performances, and the most ordinary citizens who stood with posters with a smiley face , a blank sheet of paper or a declaration of love . In addition, journalists were detained on Red Square on more than one occasion while carrying out editorial assignments.