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Severe detentions, beatings and injuries: how were the actions in support of Navalny in Russia

The rallies that took place on Saturday, January 23, in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny became the largest in the modern history of Russia - tens of thousands of people took part in them. Protests took place in 122 cities across the country, writes Air force.

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According to OVD-info, 3711 people were detained throughout the country, of which 1360 people were detained in Moscow and 523 people in St. Petersburg.

The action became resonant due to clashes between protesters and riot police and harsh detentions, during which many were injured. Nearly 30 people were injured at a rally in Moscow; they turned to doctors for help.

In St. Petersburg, 24 people sought medical help. Tomsk journalist Sergei Kolotovkin, one of the founders of the “Immortal Regiment” campaign, had his arm broken during arrest in St. Petersburg.

According to various sources, in the capital during the action, from 39 to 42 security officials were injured.

To date, human rights activists have counted 14 criminal cases initiated due to participation in the protests. Eight of them are being investigated in Moscow, two in St. Petersburg, one each in Rostov, Kazan, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok, said the head of the human rights organization Agora, Pavel Chikov.

Among them are cases of violence against government officials, calls for mass riots, involvement of minors in committing illegal acts, violation of sanitary rules that led to widespread coronavirus disease, as well as hooliganism, intentional damage to property, and even deliberate blocking of roads. In particular, such cases were opened in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Primorye. The Moscow operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus reported that 19 patients with Covid-19 came to the rally and were ordered to isolate themselves at home and would be fined.

While only a few have been detained in criminal cases, interrogations are in progress. Representatives of the European Union and the United States condemned the actions of the security forces during the dispersal of the rallies, and some government officials suggested introducing new sanctions against Russia.

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Punch to the stomach and reconciliation

One of the most resonant events at the all-Russian action was the incident in St. Petersburg - a policeman kicked 54-year-old Margarita Yudina in the stomach. Fontanka published a video in which riot police officers are leading a detainee, and a woman stands in their way, wanting to ask something, after which one of the police officers hits her in the stomach with a boot.

From the impact, the woman fell and hit the asphalt, she was taken to the hospital. Data on her well-being from different sources were different. In some media there was information that she was in serious condition, somewhere they wrote that she was feeling well.

Thus, it was reported that the director of the Institute of Emergency Medicine Research Institute named after. Dzhanelidze Vadim Manukovsky allegedly told the Podem telegram channel that Yudina had a “minor injury” and “there are no problems there at all.”

“She is conscious, feels great, I would completely discharge her,” Manukovsky said. He later retracted his words.

“They came up with it and are quoting it. There will probably even be a press conference on this matter. I didn’t say this phrase [about feeling great],” he said later in a conversation with Fontanka.

The Baza edition reported that the woman was diagnosed with a concussion, a closed head injury and a hematoma of the occiput. On the night of January 23-24, she became worse and was transferred to intensive care in serious condition, but already on January 24, Yudina was transferred to the cardiac surgery department.

The head of the department for the protection of public order of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, police colonel Sergei Muzyka, apologized to Yudina. According to Mash, the colonel came to the woman in the hospital and “apologized several times on behalf of the entire staff,” promising to look into it and punish the perpetrators.

“On behalf of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Sergei Muzyka apologized to the woman. He emphasized that forceful actions that go beyond the law are in any case unacceptable,” TASS quoted the department’s press service as saying.

On Sunday, January 24, the policeman who hit Yudina himself came to her hospital with a bouquet of chrysanthemums; a video of reconciliation spread across social networks and the media. The security officer explained his action by saying that “five minutes” before the incident he was “filled with gas,” and his visor also fogged up. In the video of the impact, his visor was raised.

“Forgive me, he’s a good guy here,” the voice-over sounded in the video.

“When I found out what happened, it was a personal tragedy,” the policeman stammers to the woman. In the video, his face is blurred and his voice has been changed.

“Don't worry about it. Everybody is alive. The flowers are good, chrysanthemums,” Yudina answered him. A video of her statement on Sunday evening, January 24, was published by REN TV.

“I forgave the offender because I understand that our youth are in a difficult situation. I don't hold a grudge. I am an Orthodox person, I forgive everyone,” she said. At her request, the woman was transferred to the Luga Hospital.

One dismissal in connection with the incident took place: they fired a National Guard member who laughed at the video of Yudina’s blow with the words: “***** [There is no point] standing in our way.” A video with his reaction was published by Dvach. State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein then stated that “if he really has anything to do with the service, he will not be in trouble.”

“Unfortunately, this is a contract soldier of the 107th regiment of the 55th division of the Russian Guard (Moscow). I called the management of the department. The decision has already been made to fire him. A young man who is not outraged, but admired by how unreasonably a woman old enough to be his mother is beaten, cannot, by definition, serve in the VNG [National Guard Troops],” Khinshtein later said.

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A fight between a Chechen and riot police

One of the videos from the rally on Pushkinskaya Square on January 23 shows how a young man fights with police officers, punches and kicks them. OMON responds with blows of truncheons. After half a minute of a fight, the young man is pulled out by a crowd of protesters and hides from the police.

Already in the evening, information began to spread on social networks that the guy was a Chechen. Under the post on Instagram, user skfo_info wrote the guy’s name and that he is from Chechnya. Subscribers criticized the author of the post for writing the young man’s name: “They just took the guy and dumped him, what will happen now? We’re waiting for him to apologize tomorrow on the Grozny [Chechen State Television and Radio Company] channel.” There are several hundred similar comments under the post. Many doubted that the guy was Chechen.

The next day, State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov recorded a video message and posted it on his Instagram. Delimkhanov speaks Chechen and reports that he spoke with the young man’s father.

“We have all seen on social networks a Chechen guy waving his fists against government officials. What you did is a crime, no matter who committed it. People like Navalny, who approve of marriages between men, are unacceptable to us,” says the deputy.

Delimkhanov calls the participants of the rally shaitans. Addressing the hero of the video, Delimkhanov says that he has been looking for him since yesterday and has already talked with his classmates in Moscow. According to the deputy, the guy is a student at Moscow State University.

“If you know what courage is, [what it is] to be a Chechen, a Muslim, you will get in touch via direct message [private message on Instagram] with me or my comrades.” In this case, Delimkhanov promises to help the young man “resolve the issue according to the law.”

“Your father says that you don’t support these people [Navalny]. If you support them, then you should not hide, but go to the end. If this is so, then we know what to do with you and people like you. If you don’t support them, our leader Ramzan said that he will help you from the point of view of the law when you appear,” says Adam Delimkhanov.

The BAZA Telegram channel wrote that the police have already spoken with the young man’s family. “According to the guy, who was handed over to the police by his relatives, someone hit him on the head, and when he came to his senses, he was already in a state of insanity and began to fight with riot police,” the BAZA channel wrote.

Police kick in the jaw

In St. Petersburg on Sunday, January 24, a man was detained for hitting traffic police officers during a rally. According to Fontanka, the 37-year-old detainee works as an IT specialist in a company that provides services in the field of industrial safety of hazardous production facilities. Baza published a video of him admitting that he hit two police officers and ran away.

According to the man, he climbed onto a traffic police tow truck on Senate Square. When a traffic police officer approached him, he went down and, in response to the policeman's attempt to grab him by the shoulder, stabbed him.

“His colleague chased me. I stopped, hit the second colleague and ran away,” the man says in the video.

A video of the attack was widely circulated on social media. It shows a man being told something by a police officer and punching him in the jaw. The employee falls to the ground from the impact. Another traffic police officer chased the man. According to Fontanka, the striker was detained at two o'clock in the morning on one of the streets of St. Petersburg.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official). Those convicted on it face up to five years in prison.

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Flasher machine

The incident on Tsvetnoy Boulevard with a Toyota car with AMR license plates and a flashing light (assigned, judging by the old databases, to the FSB) caused quite a stir. The car “belongs to the central office of the FSB,” a source told TASS.

Protesters threw snowballs at a car driving along the boulevard and broke the rear window. The driver suffered an eye injury, RIA Novosti and TASS reported, citing sources. This information has not been officially confirmed. He was taken to the hospital, his condition is unknown.

Investigators opened a criminal case under the hooliganism article, TASS reported, citing a source. So far, the detainees in this case have not been reported.

"Take Me"

Another high-profile incident also occurred in St. Petersburg - a passer-by suggested that the security officer detain him instead of another person.

In a video posted on social networks, one can see how a riot policeman is trying to detain a young man who is hugging a crying girl.

A man comes up to them and asks the security officer: “Should I kill you with a stick? Take me then and let them go.”

The policeman agreed and took him to the paddy wagon. But, as Fontanka subsequently reported, after some time a group of security forces detained almost everyone who observed this incident.

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