MEDIA UPDATES FROM PR/TESTS ALL AROUND RUSSIA;
//cw for pol/ce force brutal/ty + pr/tests
all media taken from 'It's My Media' channel on telegram, all credit will be given to the people filming.

The pol/ce force is blocking off all entries to Kremlin, Moscow.
video: Дождь

the pr/test isn't due for another 1½H in Moscow but already 10 people have been arr/sted

br/tal arr/sts in Krasnoyarsk, some are being dragged away.
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blogger and journalist Ilya Varlamov has been arrested in Pushkin Square, Moscow.

7 people arr/sted in Ekaterinburg. People are throwing snowballs at OMON.
The pol/ce there have given people 10 min to leave, after which they'll start making more arr/sts.
video: http://66.ru 

Many people gathered in Perm on the square near the “Theater-Tatra”. They're clapping and chanting slogans.
So far, only one person has been deta/ned.
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this is what the pr/test looks like in Chelyabinsk.
One person so far has been deta/ned.
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On the part of the OMON, a smoke b/mb was fired at the rally in Ekaterinburg. The pol/ce forces are advancing on the pr/testers.

blogger and journalist Ilya Varlamov, who was deta/ned earlier, has been released.
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In Arkhangelsk people have went out to pr/test despite the snowstorms and frost.
credit: SOTA

The pr/test in Moscow has officially started, and the arr/sts continue. There are reported 60 deta/nees, among them; Lyubov Sobol.

There are now about 5,000 pr/testers in the square, according to Avtozak Live.

credit: Avtozak Live

This is what Pushkin Square, Moscow, looks like from air.

In Ekaterinburg, some of the pr/testers are being pushed back by the p/lice directly onto the ice of the city pond.
The others were pushed towards the Drama Theater, the square is gradually being cleared of pr/testors.

credit: http://66.ru 

In Saratov, a p/lice car was headed to the pr/test and hit an ambulance car. The patient, who was in the ambulance at the time of the crash, was reported dead.
- Readovka reports

In St. Petersburg, more than two thousand people went to the pr/test. - "Paper".
Pr/testors are walking from St. Isaacs Cathedral to the Bronze Horseman, and are demolishing barriers set up by the p/lice.

//journalists report more than 50 d/tainees.

In Kazan people have gathered at the local Arbat - Bauman St.
Here they're shouting "We want to walk!"
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This is what St. Petersburg looks like from air.

Moscovites have went out on Tverskaya, partly stopping the traffic.

Yulia Navalnaya has been detained.
She's currently being held at an avtozak.

In Pushkin Square, Moscow, and in surrounding areas people are still present and more are coming.
credit: @/sotavisiion

Updated and latest number of people detained in all pr/testnd across the country.

updated number of detainees.

«We're doing everything, to keep you safe.»
A brutal collision in Pushkin Square between p/lice and pr/testors has just started.
credit: RIA News

Gelindzhik, next to which Navalnys associates found "Put/ns palace", is also holding a pr/test.
//If you'd like to find out more about what this "palace" is in the link below you'll find a video that Navalny has recently released about it; eng sub ✓

From Nevsky Prospect to Kazan Cathedral, the street is almost fully taken up by pr/testors.
And a comparison of just how big that is on a map; a 27 min walk from the Cathedral to the end of the street.

St. Petersburg
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According to the Reuters news agency, at least 40 thousand people took part in the pr/test action in Moscow today. The Moscow p/lice previously talked about 4 thousand people who had gathered at Pushkin Square.
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This video was filmed near the Chekhovskaya metro station, according to a SOTA correspondent, there is not enough ri/t p/lice and equipment to detain the pr/testers.

A crowd of people, having broken through the fences, entered the roadway of Strastnoy Boulevard at the turn to Bolshaya Dmitrovka.

On Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow, where many pr/testers have gathered, clashes with the p/lice have begun.

Some pr/testers have begun throwing bottles and flares at the p/lice. Others called them out;

"Why are you doing this? Did you come here to wage war? Why? Why are you doing this? Did you come to fight a war? You're just k/lling peaceful/innocent people!"
Chant: Peaceful pr/test!

MBH-Media has counted that 110 thousand people have participated in pr/tests in support of Navalny in the whole country.
The cities with the most participants are;
Moscow, St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok.

It's already getting dark in Moscow, and p/lice has started to protect the Strastnoy Boulevard from pr/testors, who are still there.
credit: Avtozak Live

Two OMON (riot p/licemen) and a Russian National Guard soldier were injured during the pr/tests in Moscow, TASS reports, citing sources in the authorities.

A few smoke b/mbs face been set off in Trubnoy Square, towards the Flower Boulevard.

Pr/testors have reached the circus on Flower Boulevard, where they're seen chanting;
"Aqua-disco!"
In regards to the fountain of the same name and usage in Put/ns "palace".

RIA News reports of already 39 p/lice officers who have been injured during the pr/tests.

Some of the pr/testers are heading to "Matrosskaya Tishina" or "Sailor's Silence", a pre-trial detention center, where Alexei Navalny is currently being held, according to the headquarters of the politician. However, all streets on the way to the centre have already been blocked.

While the p/lice are d/taining the pr/testers on Flower/Tsvetnoy Boulevard, other pr/testers are throwing snowballs at the security forces.
credit: Znak

Updated number of people d/tained across the whole country.

//I'LL BE STOPPING MY TRANSLATIONS HERE AS IT IS 2AM WHERE I LIVE, I'LL KEEP UPDATING LATER//
Keep up to date, and check in with your Russian friends, mutuals and followers. Spread the info around and educate yourself on what's happening.

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6:49pm 23/01
In Moscow, during the pr/test, p/lice detained 15 minors. All of them have already been released, said the children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova.
Earlier, she dubbed the attempts to bring children to the streets and build a "human chain" out of them as "villainous".

6:52pm 23/01
Near Tsvetnoy Boulevard, protesters threw snowballs at a car with flashing lights (p/lice).
Some of them kicked, and tried to rock it. The rear window of the car was broken, it could hardly leave the place of events.
-reports "Rain".

Photo: "Medusa"

6:54pm 23/01
And this is what the moment looks like on video.
credit: Baza

6:58pm 23/01
The security forces began to clear out Tsvetnoy Boulevard from pr/testers. Chasing after them, they can be seen jumping over the fences. Everyone who was caught is now d/tained.
- reports Avtozak Live

A statement by a spokesman for the UK Department of Foreign Affairs and International Development:

7:05pm 23/01
P/lice officers d/tain and beat people right in the lobby of the Tsvetnoy Bulvar metro station.
credit: mediazones

7:17pm 23/01
In Moscow, on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, harsh d/tentions are taking place. Many are severely beaten with truncheons. In this «Project» video, several p/lice officers beat a young man who does not resist.

7:35pm 23/01
Some of the pr/testers set off to the "Matrosskaya Tishina" or "Sailor's Silence" pre-trial detention center, where Alexei Navalny is currently detained.

7:50pm 23/01
Today there have been a lot of wild shots, but this is absolutely insane;
A 54 year old woman is seen asking why OMON is arr/sting a boy, after which a p/lice officers kicks her in the stomach with all his might and she's sent falling backwards.
credit: Фонтанка.ру

7:58pm 23/01
Margarita Yudina, who was hit by a riot p/lice officer on Vosstaniya Square.
One of the witnesses said that she was then taken to the first-aid post at the Moscow railway station.

8:53pm 23/01
A number of protesters reached "Matrosskaya Tishina" or "Sailor's Silence".
People began to chant "Leha, come out." But they were immediately met with arr/sts.
credit: Baza.

7:47pm 23/01
Arr/sts are still being made in Kazan.
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8:16pm 23/01
Bottles are being thrown from the crowd of pr/testors at the p/lice forces near "Matrosskaya Tishina" or "Sailor's Silence".
One bottle was thrown from the window of the centre at the pr/testers themselves.
- RIA News reports.

"Look, everyone's wearing black helmets, and he has this simple looking one. He hasn't unlocked the level yet."
"He looks like that mushroom from Mario."

credit: kavapanga on tiktok

8:38pm 23/01
Pushkin Square in Moscow has been taken over by the p/lice and completely freed up of pr/testors.

To sum up 23/01 in Russia;
93 cities held their pr/tests today across the country. Many others participated overseas;
Germany, Australia, USA, England and others
American diplomats will be summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry due to the publications about the pr/tests.

Out of curiosity, and brought by their parents; many children have attended the pr/test. Thankfully no one was hurt.
Despite the lack of coordination with the authorities, the pr/test action became the largest in many years. It was attended by tens of thousands of people.

3181 people d/tained across the country.
20 to 50 thousand people reported to have gone out on the streets of Moscow to pr/test.
MVD, with their usual undercounting, has stated that number to be around 4 thousand.

The pr/test in Moscow ended with people storming the detention center Alexei Navalny is currently held. There, many of the pr/testors were brutally beaten and d/tained.
St. Petersburg saw from 20 to 35 thousand pour in during the pr/test.

During the protests; many journalists have been injured; hit with batons, brutally beaten, electroshocked.
The independent trade union of journalists recorded 52 cases of obstruction of the professional activities of journalists.

As a result of the pr/tests, criminal cases have already been initiated.
“It feels like after what we saw today, the authorities will take revenge. And this revenge will be that of a large-scale." - lawyer Sergei Badamshin stated.

Navalny's associates are going to hold a new pr/test in a week - according to Leonid Volkov. He stated that organizing rallies will be "A thousand times more difficult, if only for the reason that now almost all of our regional coordinators are under administrative arrest."

St. Petersburg p/lice is studying a video where an active officer kicked a woman in the stomach.
- Vyacheslav Stepchenko, the head of the Information Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city, told the publication "Rise".

By the end of the pr/test in Moscow, which ended in "Sailor's Silence", pr/testors have been cleared out and the detention center was only left with officers and journalists.
Navalny subscribed to the news from the detention centre, on the day of the protests.

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The number of arr/sts made in Russia has gone up to 3352; with over 1300 in Moscow alone, St. Petersburg in second place with 500+.
Below; a full list of all the cities where people were d/tained. With Moscow at no.1 with 1300+
Yessentuki at no.116 with 1 arr/st.

Yesterdays protest in Moscow recorded by Valery Tenevoy.
You can view more photos here;
https://plagness.com/photo/reportage/tpost/o8nj2hnog1-svobodu-navalnomu-miting-v-moskve-2021-g

cont. photos from Moscow's protest 23.01
credit: Valery Tenevoy

//I'll link the video in the last paragraph in the next thread down↓;

"There's a child! There's a child!"
"(Someone) help the child!"
"There's a child!"
"Let me go! My child! I'll go with you (the p/lice)!"
"Come back! Give the child back to the father! They're leaving the child alone with no parents!"
"It's okay, what's your name?"
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"Amir."
"Amir do you remember your address? Let's go, get you back to your mother."
(inaudible)
"-your mother isn't home? Do you remember a telephone number?"

Credit: snezhka404 on tiktok

Pussy Riot @ the protest yesterday
Videos and translations will be added below;

½ A direct translation of this video below;

+ translation for the video above;

½ 2nd video featuring the man who directly made the complain on the three pr/testors:

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Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, has commented on the protest actions.

“-Now many will say that many people have taken part in illegal actions. No, only a few people came out, many people have voted for Putin.” Peskov said.

Peskov about the publications on "Putins Palace";

The video essay was made by, the currently detained, Alexei Navalny.

Rolling back to Moscow's protest yesterday; 23.01

In front of «Sailors Silence», a detention center, people can be seen chanting "Freedom!", before being provoked by the p/lice to run.

"-And now, everybody run!" can be heard being shouted by a man.

TW for excessive p/lice brutality.
P/lice were seen beating pr/testors with their feet and batons near «Sailor's Silence» yesterday.
The officers can be heard saying "On your feet!"
"-And don't get in the way while we work!"

«-They're writing that people are getting d/tained in their own apartments entrances/poarches.»

"I'm online, what?"
(woman crying)
"Don't cry, everything's okay."
(inaudible)
"Let's go, let's go, let's go! I said go faster! Let's go!"
"We're going."

Municipal deputy Lucy Stein was arrested for 10 days. The court also appointed director Victoria Narakhse 8 days. Both they, and Maria Alekhina were detained at the Bolshoi Theater yesterday.

According to Lucy, they are now being taken to the investigative committee.

Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina was fined 30 thousand for "organizing an unauthorized pr/test," according to Avtozak Live.

Several people were detained on Arbat, including the actionist Pavel Krysevich in connection to this new performance against the "Police State". Apparently all participants will be taken to the Arbat Police station.
Pavel can be heard screaming; "Down with the police state!"

An ambulance came to Pavel Krysevich, because during his arrest he cut himself on wire, which was part of the performance. For him and the artist Bulat Subkhanulov protocols of disobedience to police officers were written up.
They want to leave them overnight until the trial.
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In total, four were detained. Until recently, two women were kept in a police van.
In addition, the employees of Center “E” took away and broke/wiped the equipment of journalists Victoria Arefieva, Ruslan Terekhov and Andrey Makashov.
Arefieva's camera lens was broken.

At the "Severnoye Tushino" OVD, officers aren't allowing parcels for the detainees;

A record number of detainees, a tough confrontation between citizens and the police forces - we were prepared for the fact that there would be many criminal cases after the protests on 23.01
cont below;;;

The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the initiation of a case under Art. 267 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on blocking streets and disrupting the operation of transport infrastructure.
Searches and arrests already taking place in Maxim Liksutov's office.