TV Rain has made the following list of people and places in Moscow raided and searched today (January 27, 2020) by the Putinist security forces. Thanks to Darya Apahonchich for the heads-up. \\ TRR
We made a list of all police searches today. As of now, we know that the security services have raided the following:
Navalny’s apartment in the Maryino district of Moscow
An apartment rented by Navalny near the Avtozavodskaya subway station
The Navalny LIVE studio
The Anti-Corruption Foundation’s offices
Lyubov Sobol’s apartment
Moscow Navalny HQ coordinator Oleg Stepanov
The apartment of Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, who has been transported home from a special detention center for the search
The apartment of Anti-Corruption Foundation employee Georgy Alburov, who has also been transported home from a special detention center for the search
The apartment of Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina
The apartment of municipal district councilor Lusya Stein
The apartment of Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Alliance of Doctors: she has been detained and taken there for the search
The apartment of Nikolai Kasyan, aide to municipal district councilor Yulia Galyamina
The apartment of Yegor Yefremov, a member of the Libertarian Party of Russia (LPR) and Civil Society
The apartment of the mother of Sergei Smirnov, editor-in-chief of Mediazona
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My friend Vlad Tupikin just posted on his Facebook page this people-on-the-street video by Alexei Romanov about the continuing anti-regime protests in Khabarovsk, in Russia’s Far East. As Vlad wrote, watching this video will fill you with joy for the rest of the day. In the video, Romanov talks about his own overwhelmingly positive emotions as he joins the khabarovchane (residents of Khabarovsk) for a second day of spontaneous mass protests in the streets, as well as chatting with the protesters themselves. If you like what you see, consider donating money to Romanov’s PayPal account (ulgir2@gmail.com) in support of his YouTube channel.
Romanov had already posted this much longer video reportage about the first day of the protests (July 11, 2020), which have stunned all of Russia.
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Finally, here is some interesting commentary and background on the protests from the indefatigable and endlessly invaluable Paul Goble, one of my genuine blogging heroes.
Protesters in Khabarovsk Now Talking about Independent Far Eastern Republic of the 1920s
Paul Goble Windows on Eurasia (New Series)
July 14, 2020
Staunton, July 12 – Despite the absence of coverage in government-controlled media, the protests in Khabarovsk continue, and they are being supported by demonstrators in other cities across the country, a sign that the issues the residents of that city raise are not restricted to that region but are finding an echo elsewhere.
After yesterday’s unprecedentedly large meeting, Khabarovsk residents went back into the street today twice, once in the early afternoon and then again in the evening, with even more radical slogans because they have not received any response to their demands (sibreal.org/a/30722202.html).
But by talking about a possible restoration of the Far Eastern Republic, they beyond doubt have attracted the attention or and possibly repressive actions by the Russian authorities in the capital who will see this not only as a violation of the law on the territorial integrity of the country but a threat to its existence.
That is especially true because it involves a predominantly ethnic Russian area and consequently Moscow can’t rely on Russian nationalism alone to provide support for any crackdown. Instead, if a crackdown does come, Russians will be divided; and that is something that people in the Kremlin are worried about as well.
(On the complicated and brief life of the Far Eastern Republic, which existed as a buffer state between the RSFSR and Japanese-backed groups further east, see Henry Kittredge, The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia (London, 1923), Canfield Smith, Vladivostok under Red and White Rule (Seattle, 1975), and Alan Wood, Russia’s Frozen Frontier (London, 2011) and Ivan Sablin, The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic (London, 2018).)
Protesters on the streets of Khabarovsk on July 11, 2020. Courtesy of BBC News
OVD Info, That Was the Week That Was Email Newsletter, Special Edition: How the He’s No Tsar to Us Protests Played Out Nationwide
Saturday, May 5, 2018, witnessed large-scale, nationwide protests by supporters of Alexei Navalny, who voiced their opposition to Vladimir Putin’s new term as president. This was how the protests went down in facts and figures.
According to the information we have available, a total of 1,600 people were detained in 27 cities. Around 300 spent the night in police stations.*
719 detainees in Moscow were taken to 42 police stations; around 154 people spent the night in custody.
217 detainees in Petersburg were taken to 29 police stations; around 95 people spent the night in custody.
185 people were detained in Chelyabinsk.
75 people were detained in Yakutsk.
64 people were detained in Krasnodar.
63 people were detained in Togliatti, half of them minors.
48 people were detained in Voronezh.
45 people were detained in Krasnoyarsk.
28 people were detained in Kaluga.
24 people were detained in Astrakhan.
22 people were detained in Novokuznetsk.
20 people were detained in Belgorod.
18 people were detained in Vladimir.
16 people were detained in Samara.
10 people each were detained in Barnaul and Blagoveshchensk.
9 people were detained in Penza.
6 people each were detained in Tver and Kurgan.
5 people were detained in Sochi.
2 people each were detained in Kemerovo, Naberezhnye Chelny, and Rostov-on-Don.
1 person each was detained in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, and Tomsk.
*You can view the complete list of detainees, including names and the police stations where they were taken, here.
In the aftermath of the rallies, criminal charges have been filed against one detainee. In Petersburg, a policeman named Sukhorukov has accused Mikhail Tsakunov of knocking out his tooth “deliberately, motivated by enmity.” Charges were filed under Article 318 Part 2 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code: health- or life-threatening violence against a police office. Tsakunov could be sent to prison for ten years if found guilty. Video footage of the young man’s arrest can be viewed here.
The detainees were tried on Sunday in Petersburg, Vladimir, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and Chelyabinsk.
Alexei Navalny was detained on Pushkin Square in Moscow. At the police station, he was written up for two administrative offenses: repeated violation of the procedures for holding public events and failure to obey a police officer’s lawful order. He was not kept in the police station overnight. His court hearing will take place on May 11.
What Did We Do?
We helped detainees in twenty police stations in Moscow and coordinated the rendering of legal aid in Chelyabinsk, Kaluga, and Krasnoyarsk.
In the space of twenty-four hours,* our hotline received 2,156 calls for a total duration of 64 hours and 45 minutes.
5 hours and 24 minutes of that time was taken up by 93 legal consultations.
We were called 1,014 times.
We called back to verify information 1,142 times.
* From six in the morning on May 5 to six in the morning on May 6.
We do intake not only on our hotline but also using our Law Bot and our Red Button application.
147people reported being detained through Law Bot.
78reports of people being detained were received through the Red Button.
1,993people had installed the bot as of May 3.
43 volunteers helped us gather information on the detentions, putting in approximately 260 hours of work. You can sign up to join our team of volunteers here.
We can help a lot of people, but we need money to do it. Donations keep the 24-hour hotline running. They pay for legal services. They pay people to write the news and analyze human rights violations in Russia. You can support us here.
“Free Navalny! 12:00 p.m., January 31”
Protesters on the streets of Khabarovsk on July 11, 2020. Courtesy of 
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