In St. Petersburg, at the first police department, a report was drawn up against a Mediazona journalist for disobedience to a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) during his arrest at a rally for LGBT rights. Frenkel himself reported this to Mediazona.

Senator and former human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin introduced a bill in the State Duma that would require police officers and National Guard members to wear a “highly visible identification number.” The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament.

In St. Petersburg, one of the detainees against the rally against the silence of homophobic crimes called an ambulance, but the police refused to open the door of the car carrier. The correspondent David Frenkel, who was also detained, told Mediazone about this. As a result, the doctors tried to examine the patient and measure his pulse through the bars. Later, the detainee was taken out of the car carrier, and the door was locked again.

Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone In St. Petersburg, the police detained the correspondent of "Mediazons" David Frenkel for promotions against the silence of homophobic crimes. This "Mediazone" was announced by Frenkel himself. At first, the police said that they were delaying the journalist for violating traffic rules (Article 12.29. Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the employees, Frenkel entered the roadway. “I was pushed into a car gut.

In St. Petersburg, police detained LGBT activist Alexei Nazarov, who was going to a rally against the silencing of homophobic crimes. Nazarov himself told Mediazona about this. Nazarov was detained during the day near a house on Kupchinskaya Street, where he was visiting.

In St. Petersburg, during single pickets dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, activist Alexey Solovyov, who was wearing a “Pudding ENT” sweatshirt, was detained. about this . The activist himself told MBKh Media Before his arrest, Solovyov also tried to unfurl a poster depicting Cipollino with the inscription “Maybe we’ll repeat it.” “I came, looked at the picketers for about five minutes, and that’s it, I didn’t even have time to participate.

​In Moscow, seven activists of the “Perpetual Protest” were detained on their way to a concert in honor of Flag Day, which takes place on Academician Sakharov Avenue. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to the detainees themselves. According to the project, the names of the detainees are Alexey Popov, Vladislav Vostrikov, Alexander Chernov, Nikolai Glukhin, Anton Omariev. Later it became known about two more detainees: Alexander Teplyakov and Alexander Rudenko.