All were charged under Article 19.3 (arrest) or 20.2 (fine) of the Code of Administrative Offenses. According to the police department, 280 people were detained, activists say about 400-500 people.

The metro pushed into the surface more and more portions of citizens. There were many of them, they were different, but for some reason, in this pen of Pushkinskaya Square, something was immediately unkind. For some reason, I remembered pure ponds. Yes, do not ask me the favorite question of Varlamov, how many people were. There could be more, I think. Did everyone give up their hands so quickly? In vain.

The crowd grew, Limonov’s men came up, grabbed someone and dragged them into a paddy wagon (perhaps Limonov himself?) - in general, things became more lively. The cops began to proclaim something like “citizens are pedestrians, do not disturb pedestrians,” then the cosmonauts began to push away pedestrian citizens, as is usually done on Triumfalnaya, insistently suggesting that they go to the metro.

On March 5, at 6 hours I went to Lubyanka - see the situation. The Solovetsky stone is fenced by barriers and chains of cops, in each back nook on a platoon of cops, a column of military trucks with cops on the old square, but the small Cherkasy (the path to CIC) is not completely blocked, oddly enough. An hour later, I again approached the “object” already in the company of eight people, including them: Gennady Stroganov, Alexei Nikitin, Tatyana Sttsur, Nadezhda Nizovkin and Vera Lavreshina.

Petersburg workers of culture and art (musician Yuri Shevchuk, film director Alexander Sokurov, artist Dmitry Shagin), human rights activists (Yuli Rybakov, Natalya Evdokimova) and deputies - "Yabloko" of the city Legislative Assembly (Maxim Reznik, Boris Vishnevsky, Olga Galkina, Vyacheslav Notyag, Alexander Kobrinsky) and others on March 6 sent an official message to the head of the Northern capital Georgy Poltavchenko: “We express our deepest indignation at the unjustified detentions of

The OVD-Info publishes the story of the detainee on March 5, 2012 on Pushkinskaya Square, where a protesting rally dedicated to the results of the presidential election was held. Thank you all for your support !!! Finally, my hands reached the writing of this text. What happened? How did we reached such a thing that riot police can calmly take people with a meeting with the deputy allowed under the law? Well, okay ... All in order: On March 5th, a decade of my detention was turned on clean.

Moscow, Mar 8 - RIA Novosti. The chief editors of RIA Novosti Svetlana Mironyuk and the Moscow News newspaper Vladimir Gurevich sent a letter to the head of the GUMVD of Moscow, asking for a letter to deal with the incident with the journalist MN Pavel Nikulin at an unauthorized rally on the Lubyanka on March 6.

This text is an attempt, avoiding emotional assessments as far as possible, to describe the practice of the authorities in St. Petersburg regarding the so-called "unauthorized rallies". This practice looks like this: At first, the city authorities refuse to approve the applicants of public protest actions to hold them in the declared place under far-fetched and often simply mocking pretexts.

On the evening of March 5, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, with great cruelty riot police and the police, participants in peaceful actions were detained and dispersed. Beds were widely used. Not only demonstrators or participants in the meeting with State Duma deputies on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow and Isaakievskaya Square in St. Petersburg, but also journalists and ordinary passers-by were victims of beatings and power techniques.

An open letter from the editor-in-chief of the Kommersant FM radio station, Dmitry Solopov, to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, Vladimir Kolokoltsev. Dear General Kolokoltsev! On Monday, while carrying out an official assignment to cover events taking place in the center of Moscow, Ulyana Malashenko, a correspondent for the Kommersant FM radio station, was beaten by Moscow police officers.

Igor Druzhinin, a participant in the protests of 2011-2012, recalls the events on Pushkinskaya Square after the announcement of the results of the presidential election. The metro pushed into the surface more and more portions of citizens. There were many of them, they were different, but for some reason, in this pen of Pushkinskaya Square, something was immediately unkind. For some reason, I remembered pure ponds. Yes, do not ask me the favorite question of Varlamov, how many people were.