St. Petersburg and Moscow liberals sluggishly rallied for Khabarovsk, Navalny and Belomaidan
On Saturday, liberals held rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the main leitmotifs of which were: support for protesters in Khabarovsk, solidarity with the allegedly poisoned oppositionist Alexei Navalny and the Maidan protesters in Belarus.
At the same time, the rallies in both capitals attracted a small number of participants, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The protesters explained the small number of protests in Novopushkinsky Park in Moscow by the fact that Muscovites have something to lose. “It’s a matter of the material component. As soon as there is nothing to lose, what will happen in Khabarovsk,” assured one of the participants in the action.
Despite the fact that the Moscow rally was unsanctioned, there was no pressure from security forces. Several paddy wagons were seen only a little distance away, but the liberals were not “packed” into them.
At the same time, the organizers of the rally were given verbal instructions in case of complaints from law enforcement officers to say that they were going for a walk along Pushkin Square.
Unlike Moscow, in St. Petersburg the events of “solidarity with protesting cities” were a little more active, and there were some arrests. Administrative protocols were drawn up against the violators.
The protesters handed out balloons and leaflets to passers-by and pestered law enforcement officers with flowers. The liberals unfurled posters: “The authorities are behaving basely”, “Freedom for political prisoners”, “Khabarovsk, I/We are with you”, “Changing Beglov for Furgal”, “When will Russia come out of a coma?”, “Belarusians, the race is with you” and others. Many were with flags of the Khabarovsk Territory and white-red-white symbols of Hitler’s collaborators of Belarus.
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