"20th of January in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Grozniy various actions were organized to commemorate Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova, murdered 19th of January. At noon around 400 people gathered at the place of murder to leave flowers. Police and several buses of OMON riot police were present at the spot, but eventually they did not intervene. Moscow anarchists decided, that candles and flowers are not enough of a reaction against such an outrageous murder, thus they decided to organize an illegal demonstration.
First gathering place was leaked to police, and it was surrounded by a tight cordon of OMON. Eventually gathering place was moved to Bolshoy theater, but police got there as well, around 7:30 PM they attacked peaceful people. Around 15 people got arrested, few more were arrested at the metro station "Okhotniy Ryad", rest of the people moved to exit of metro Novokuznetskaya.
From there, march was launched 8:20 PM, and it blockaded Pyatnitskaya street. March went to Obvodnaya canal proceeded by embankment, from there demonstration moved to Bolshaya Ordynka street, blocking it.
People scanned "Fascists murder, authorities are covering!", "We do not forget, we do not forgive", "Our motherland is the whole humanity", there were banners "No to impunity" and "Fascist murder, authorities are covering". Trash containers were thrown to street to stop traffic. In end of the march, few bank windows and windows of McDonald's at metro Tretyakovskaya were trashed. Altogether around 200 people joined demonstration.
During the action, around 50 people altogether got arrested, good part of them random passers by, but it seems everyone got released without charges during the same evening.
Text of the leaflet is available in Russian in http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2190, but it could not be distributed in action as whole printout got confiscated before it got started.
In St. Petersburg, around 100 people gathered at Ligovskiy street 7 PM. This was openly announced action and police attempted to stop it, however people managed to launch march towards Marsova fields, where is a memorial to victims of white terror. There a small meeting was organized.
There was also a rather strange demonstration in Chechnya. This was officially sanctioned by the authorities, and among human rights organizations there were such strange entities such as "Fan Club of Ramzan Kadyrov". It was reported, that more than 1000 people joined demonstration. Stas and Nastya were definitely no fans of current totalitarian regime in Chechnya, however Stas was defending interests of relatives of victims in two most prominent Russian war crimes courts. Whereas current Chechen regime is not too keen to punish their own power structures for human rights violations, they pursue course of prosecuting non-Chechen officials of Russian army for reasons of public relations, and also to erase from the republic all federal structures not directly subordinate to the current regime."
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infoshop News
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