drugoi

drugoi

quick_justice

I did a couple of recordings today along the way: on Pushkinskaya Square first, and then on the boulevard on my way to Turgenevskaya and on Chistye Prudy. Nothing specials, but atmospheric enough. Nowdays opposition has to play cat-and-mouse game with the government, that's why I didn't see violent dispersal on the boulevard -- we came there later. There were ocean of police, military forces and SWAT squards on Pushkin Square.

Honestly saying I didn't see so many security forces in Moscow for a long-long time. We crowded on a corner near "Armenia" on Pushkin Square and saw SWAT starting to push people away from the drove. "Disgrace!" -- a group of youngsters started to shout. SWAT started to act very pushy immidiately -- 3 or 4 of them attacked person, grab him and carry away. Someone lit a flare that started a jam, some women started to scream with her voice constrained. SWAT started to push our group away to "Armenia". People were taken away to the cars all the time. Two persons in civil dress took me and asked to go to the buses while I was holding the cameras in both hands. Sounds funny, but I talked them away using the "SUP" pass that i put on and being shoiwing every time I needed to cross yet another barrier. These two disappeared and I continued to shoot.

The activists of MGER that were brought to the place by busses from Lipetsk and other remote locations being demonstrated in Novopushkinski garden. The music of Lube sounded in background "We are defending Putin and Stalingrad". They were guarded by military surronding the square. Someone was histerically screaming into mic all the time: "We will not give the Russia away!".

So, SWAT did it's job in general. They pushed people away from the territory moving the most active people down the boulevard.



On the boulevard: an old women trying to get past the SWAT line that guards the passage to the meeting of discordants at Turgenevskaya carrying the constitution in her hand. It's tragic comic and absurdic -- see yourself. Btw. I passed this line using SUP pass.



When I finally made it to Chistye Prudy crossing two SWAT lines along the way, meeting was already over. There was only a group of Limonov's supporters, very young boys, that were trying to attract photographers and SWAT by all means. It was awfull mess there and a lot of noise. It seems SWAT pushed the rest of the demonstrants to the subway.

that's how it goes.