“He is not our king” is an all-Russian protest rally held on May 5, 2018. The action was organized by opposition politician Alexei Navalny . According to Navalny, the action was inspired by the success of the Armenian revolution [7] .
| The protest action "He is not our king" | |||||||||||||
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| Part of the Protests of 2017-2018 in Russia | |||||||||||||
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| Russian police, Cossack army | protesters | ||||||||||||
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 Vladimir Putin |  Alexey Navalny | ||||||||||||
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| from 6150 to 40 thousand people [2] | |||||||||||||
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In Moscow, St. Petersburg and a number of other cities, brutal police actions were noted, the protesters complained of beatings with rubber truncheons and arrests [8] [9] . The total number of detained participants in the country was about 1,600 people [10] [11] . The photographs recorded cases of detention of minor participants in the action [12] [13] .
In Moscow, attacks on protesters marked representatives of the Central Cossack army [14] [15] [16] . The deputy prosecutor for the city of Moscow Andrei Tsyganov, in response to a request from the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party, Valery Rashkin, said that the Moscow prosecutor’s office would check reports of law violations by people in Cossack uniforms who beat protesters [17] .
In St. Petersburg, protesters blocked Nevsky Prospekt and marched along the street, breaking police barriers and building barricades [18] . In Moscow, protesters blocked traffic on Strastnoy Boulevard [19] .
Content
- 1 Event coverage
- 2 Reaction and outcomes
- 3 Trial of activists
- 4 Claims by activists
- 5 See also
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Event coverage
NTV Russian TV channels and Channel 1 mostly ignored the protests [20] .
Reaction and Summary
The European External Relations Service and the US Department of State condemned the massive detentions of protesters and journalists and called for their immediate release [21] [22] .
The director of the International Institute of the Newest States, Alexei Martynov, described the rally as "having virtually nothing to do with the real problems that concern people" [23] . Chairman of the Board of the Civil Society Development Fund, Konstantin Kostin, said that after the rally Navalny did not achieve political goals, but attracted media attention to the action. Grigory Trofimchuk, First Vice President of the Center for Strategic Development Modeling, described the action as “a traditional, template format for Navalny” [24] . A public figure Alexander Khaminsky linked the refusal to hold a permitted action on Academician Sakharov Avenue in Moscow with the fact that there will be more random spectators and passers-by on Tverskaya Street [25] . The director of the Institute of Political Sociology, Vyacheslav Smirnov, called the action “He is not our king” an attempt to correct the image after the presidential campaign of Ksenia Sobchak [26] . State Duma deputy and member of "United Russia" Yevgeny Fedorov called the rally "a provocation of Navalny" [27]
Political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky compared the attack of the Cossacks on the protesters with the “ aunts ” during the Euromaidan in Ukraine [28] .
Activist
According to the Dozhd TV channel, in total, detainees received at least 300 days of arrest and more than 1.3 million rubles in fines [29] . Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 30 days of arrest [30] .
On December 14, 2018, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny, Denis Mikhailov, and the press secretary of the Vesna movement, Bogdan Litvin, for compensation for damage allegedly caused to the city by the participants of the rally on May 5. The prosecutor’s office estimated the damage to the city’s green spaces at 10 million 953 thousand rubles (which is approximately equal to the annual expenses for landscaping the three central areas of the city, which amount to 12 million rubles) [31] [32] . On December 21, Mikhailov’s bank accounts were blocked as a security measure for the lawsuit [33] . On February 5, 2019, the Frunze District Court of St. Petersburg ordered Mikhailov and Litvin to pay 7 million 300 thousand rubles to compensate for the damage caused [34] .
Activists announced a fundraiser to pay the fine. Their initiative was supported by Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who made a corresponding request to his readers. According to the oligarch, he himself is experiencing problems with money, so for him it is “a lot of money” [35] .
Claims by activists
On June 1, 2018, the first complaint was filed with the ECHR against the authorities. According to the lawyer of International Agora, Alexei Glukhov, about 300 complaints can be submitted in total [36] .
In December 2018, the human rights organization Zona Prava sent a statement to the Prosecutor General Chaika due to the fact that the investigating authorities did not initiate a single case on 15 allegations pending at the Zona Prava regarding police and Cossack violence at rallies in May and September [37] .
See also
- Anti-corruption protests in Russia on March 26, 2017
- He is not Dimon
- March of millions
Notes
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olfaClrGEzE
- ↑ https://meduza.io/feature/2018/05/07/skolko-lyudey-vyshlo-5-maya-na-ulitsy-skolko-bylo-zaderzhaniy-karta-protestov
- ↑ Several journalists were detained and beaten at the action “He is not our king” in Moscow
- ↑ Yashin: Bulk injured his hand when detained at Pushkinskaya
- ↑ A criminal case was opened against the activist for “beating” a policeman at a rally of Navalny’s supporters , Rosbalt . Date of treatment May 7, 2018.
- ↑ In Russia, about 1,600 people were detained in the rally “He is not our king”
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqD0umu1mRA
- ↑ "OVD-Info": over 1,300 people were detained at protests in Russia - News - Society - Kommersant
- ↑ The number of detainees in protests exceeded 1200 people - MK
- ↑ “Your actions are illegal”: “He is not our king” campaign for two and a half minutes // Dozhd TV channel, May 6, 2018
- ↑ Actions “He is not our king”: about 1600 people were detained: Meduza watched the protests in Moscow and the regions (Russian) , Meduza . Date of treatment May 17, 2018.
- ↑ 13-year-old teenager complains of beating by a police officer after being detained in Moscow
- ↑ A 12-year-old child was detained at a protest rally in Saratov. A protocol was drawn up on his father
- ↑ Cossacks first entered the confrontation with Navalny’s supporters - Vedomosti
- ↑ Moscow City Hall paid for the training of “Cossacks” who dispersed the rally | New Izvestia
- ↑ The journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda was beaten with a whip during a rally in Moscow - Sputnik / News . news.sputnik.ru. Date of treatment May 8, 2018.
- ↑ The prosecutor’s office will check the actions of the Cossacks on the action “He is not our king” in Moscow
- ↑ Protesters in St. Petersburg blocked Nevsky Prospect
- ↑ Supporters of Navalny blocked Passion Boulevard. Riot police began to delay
- ↑ The federal media “did not notice” the thousands of protests throughout Russia . Date of treatment May 17, 2018.
- ↑ Time, Present . The European Union and the United States condemned the mass detentions of protesters in Russia (Rus.) , The Present . Date of treatment May 8, 2018.
- ↑ Statement by a spokesperson on the reaction of the Russian authorities to peaceful demonstrations in the Russian Federation - European Commission . EEAS. Date of treatment May 8, 2018.
- ↑ Experts told why the Russians go to rallies
- ↑ Experts about the action of Navalny: “There was no record. There was such a template for Navalny format "
- ↑ Share of Alexei Navalny. Afterword.
- ↑ It ’s more profitable for Bulk
- ↑ Leader of NCD: Provoked Navalny in the center of Moscow, not us!
- ↑ Attraction of NODovtsev and Cossacks by the authorities to opposition rallies is dangerous, as it provokes acute conflicts - political scientist
- ↑ Inc., TV Rain,. Three hundred days of arrest and more than a million rubles in fines in total: the consequences of the action “He is not our king,” S. see video at 01:16. Date of treatment June 3, 2018.
- ↑ The court gave Alexei Navalny 30 days of arrest, and then another 15 days. Politician Punished for Unauthorized Share on May 5 (Rus.) , Meduza . Date of treatment June 3, 2018.
- ↑ The prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit for 11 million rubles against the coordinator of the St. Petersburg headquarters of Navalny over a rally on May 5 . Mediazone. Date of treatment December 14, 2018.
- ↑ Bulkheads will answer for cotoneaster. Smolny asks for 11 million from protesters before the inauguration of Putin . www.fontanka.ru (20181214T1409 + 0300Z). Date of treatment December 14, 2018.
- ↑ Accounts of the coordinator of the St. Petersburg headquarters of Navalny were arrested after a lawsuit by the prosecutor’s office for 11 million rubles . Mediazone. Date of treatment February 5, 2019.
- ↑ The court ordered the head of the Petersburg headquarters of Navalny and the Vesna coordinator to pay more than 7 million rubles at the suit of the prosecutor’s office . Mediazone. Date of treatment February 5, 2019.
- ↑ Khodorkovsky called to collect 7 million for a fine for a lawn crushed by protesters in St. Petersburg. He himself can’t master // Fontanka.ru.
- ↑ Sheets . In the Strasbourg court, there are more and more complaints about the dispersal of rallies in Russia (June 1, 2018). Date of treatment June 3, 2018.
- ↑ Human rights activists announced the refusal of the UK to initiate cases of beatings at rallies . RBC. Date of treatment December 12, 2018.
Links
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| Promotions "He is not our king" in two and a half minutes | |
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- Coverage of the meeting of Alexei Navalny / Echo of Moscow
- Strength versus word. What ended the May rally of Navalny in Russia / FederalPress