In Moscow, as well as other regions of Russia, on June 4, the birthday of Alexei Navalny, actions are held in his support. Across the country, the security forces began to detain Russians who came to the actions, at least 20 such cases are already known, OVD-Info reports .
On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, the security forces took a man in a jacket with the inscription "SHIZO" and a man in a T-shirt "Protect Russia" into a paddy wagon, according to the Telegram channel Caution, News.
Some participants of the action scatter leaflets in support of Navalny, the security forces remove them, but some people manage to pick them up. Buses with employees of the Russian Guard were brought to the square, and law enforcement officers check the documents of all those who came.
According to OVD-Info, actions are also taking place in Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Samara and other cities. Detentions are almost everywhere. According to the Caution, Moscow channel, the security forces also approached a schoolboy who was reading the Criminal Code (CC) of Russia and the Constitution, and watched him through. Two copies of the Constitution and the Criminal Code were found in the backpack. When asked by the security forces why he did this, he replied that he wanted to become a politician.
On Red Square, Ivan Putyatin was detained with a poster "Freedom and a kangaroo, Putin is a spider." The picketer was taken to the police department in the Kitay-gorod district, OVD-Info reports. Also in Moscow, Ekaterina Lubyanaya was detained "for a balloon." Another man came out to the monument to Pushkin with a poster "Happy birthday, Alexei", the security forces took him to a paddy wagon to the applause of eyewitnesses.
In Barnaul, Russian woman Olga Merkulova was detained for walking with a balloon. In Yelabuga, Tatarstan, Dmitry Teterin was detained allegedly because of "bicycle theft". Artur Sadykov was detained in Krasnoyarsk because he made an inscription with chalk on the asphalt: "Freedom to political prisoners." He is charged with two administrative articles – on the destruction or damage of other people's property and on violation of the rules for the improvement of cities.
OVD-Info clarifies that in Krasnoyarsk and Moscow, after the arrests, several people have already been released.
Earlier, Aleksey Navalny, who is in IK-6 and regularly ends up in ShIZO, posted a post from the colony on his 47th birthday.
“Today is my birthday. And, waking up in the morning, I joked to myself that I added ShIZO to the piggy bank of places where I celebrated my birthday. And then, like many people who have reached a certain age (and I'm 47 today – stunned), I thought about the achievements for the year and plans for the next.