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Photo: Gontcharov and Mitrokhin a minute before
their arrest.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin is detained at a rally at
Triumfalnaya square, Moscow. Now he is in the OMON (riot police)
bus together with 30 other detained.
For the first time police tried to detain Mitrokhin when
he and Kirill Gontcharov, leader of the Youth YABLOKO, was
unrolling the Russian flag. Then the riot police let Mitrokhin
go after he showed his certificate of candidate to the State
Duma, as (until the official announcement of the election
results) candidates can be detained only with Prosecutors
order.
Kirill Gontcharov is also detained. Journalist Bazhena Rynska
is in same bus with Kirill.
The square is at present circled by young supporters of the
ruling United Russia party. They are chanting Medvedev, Victory!
and hold placards with Medvedevs photograph.
Mitrokhin pointed out to policemen an obvious violation of
the law the actions of United Russia supporters that can
be qualified as an unsanctioned rally and these young people
should be detained.
Several hundreds supporters of the opposition who have already
arrived to the rally can not get to the square, but they are
chanting their slogans. People are squeezed on the pavements
between exits from the metro station and the square. Policemen
oust people to Tverskaya-Yamskaya square, tearing someone
out of the crowd and taking them to police cars.
Considerable forces of the law enforcement are concentrated
around the square. Police and OMON are equipped with bullet-proof
vests and helmets.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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