On Russia Day, according to OVD-Info, at least 50 people were detained. More than 30 of them were detained using the facial recognition system in the Moscow metro. According to the activists, the police claimed that the detainees had an orientation “Day of Russia”.
One of those detained using the facial recognition system was science journalist Asya Kazantseva. She was taken to the Filevsky Park police station. Kazantseva told Mediazona that the police demanded that she write an explanatory note about holding a “preventive conversation that people who have had administrative detentions in the past should not enter the metro on Russia Day.”
Another detainee - already in St. Petersburg - was picketer Andrey Olivieri. He stood with a poster on which Putin's quote was written: "The worst thing for a politician is to cling to his chair with his hands and teeth."
Activist Alexander Mets was detained in Moscow: he stood up with a poster under the letter Z, placed on the facade of the Moscow Theater of Oleg Tabakov. At Metz, a protocol was drawn up "on discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation." According to OVD-info, they want to leave him in the department for the night and also impute an article “on disobedience to police officers”.
A Russian flag with the inscription "Today is not my day" appeared at the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Later, OVD-Info reported that Anton Malgazhdarov was detained for this banner - he was taken from his apartment without a passport and phone.
In St. Petersburg, Yulia Chernysheva and Margarita Lukashevich-Vinogradova were detained near Gostiny Dvor, who came out with anti-war pickets. The police drew up protocols against them under the article on violation of anti-coronavirus restrictions.
On the territories of Ukraine occupied by Russian troops, the pro-Russian administrations also tried to hold the Day of Russia. In Kherson, for example, a concert was held with the participation of the Zemlyane group, singer Elena Sever and the SPB group. And in Mariupol, activists of the Young Guard of United Russia unfurled a huge Russian tricolor on the square. Local residents have found a way to express their protest.
More than 70 cities around the world hosted Russians Against War actions: activists came out with white and blue flags and slogans against the war, in support of Ukraine and Russians who are being repressed.
In Tbilisi, activists took the Russian tricolor to the square, where the white color was covered with red paint imitating blood.
The action "Day of Russia without Putinism" took place in Warsaw. It was attended by about 50 people from the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian diasporas.
The country received official congratulations on the Day of Russia from only a few states: North Korea, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Nicaragua. Some of Russia's allies in the CSTO, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, were not among those who congratulated. Russia did not receive congratulations from China and Eritrea, which supported Russia's policy in the UN. But congratulations came from the so-called "DPR", "LPR", Palestine and Transnistria.
Source: THE INSIDER
