The driving force behind this protest is the government itself, the theft, lawlessness and violence it inflicts. Was today on Komsomolskaya. What could be seen today on the streets of Moscow reminded me of August 19, 1991: the occupied city. Only instead of tanks - ugly vehicles for transporting the National Guard, and instead of infantry fighting vehicles - paddy wagons. Then, in August, the invaders lost.

Not the palace in Gelendzhik, urgently donated to the bewildered Rotenberg, but Lubyanka, the center of everything. Sick and at the same time the main place In the midst of events (undoubtedly terrible), something very important could be forgotten. In Moscow, the rally was scheduled for the Lubyanka. First. This caused an unprecedented gathering of security forces, an unprecedented blockade of the entire center, as well as subsequent unrest and repression.

"Stop the growing confrontation and turn to cooperation and dialogue," is the title of an appeal by well-known Russian-speaking professors from leading universities in the world, which was published on the Trinity Variant portal of the academic community.

Protest activity should encourage the democratic opposition to form a consolidated coalition and prepare it for participation in the autumn elections to the State Duma New peaceful protests took place across Russia. The vertical continues to use unprecedented violence against citizens. The authorities took unprecedented measures to prepare for the protest: in fact, a number of cities on January 31 were under martial law. People were not allowed to gather in the streets and squares.

The second weekend in Russia, people across the country took to the streets in support of Alexei Navalny. More than 5,000 people were detained, including dozens of journalists Rallies and processions were held in the Far East and Siberia. According to the latest data from OVD-Info, the police detained 5,021 people. In Moscow today is blocked , the city center , metro stations are closed and ground transport routes have been changed. The action started at noon.

"Stop the growing confrontation and turn to cooperation and dialogue," is the title of an appeal by well-known Russian-speaking professors from leading universities in the world, which was published on the Trinity Variant portal of the academic community.

In Russia, 261 people were detained at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. Most of the detainees were in Vladivostok - 96 people, OVD-Info reports . Here people went out on the ice of the Sea of ​​Japan and danced round dances. They lined up either in an exclamation mark, or in the letter "H". The protesters chanted “Putin is a thief”, “Akvadiskoteka”, “Freedom to Navalny!”.

The January 31 protests showed an almost universal increase in the embitterment of the authorities. Up to readiness for the use of weapons The authorities will not be able to turn off the road of violence. The power system carries out political orders, the picture of what is happening is terrifying, but for the system this is a continuation of the road to a dead end. More precisely, persistence in continuing the saber-rattling, already in a political impasse.