Russian state TV is covering the demos today. The report purports to show Navalny supporters as violent and actively targeting policemen, heavily features threats of prosecution by police. “Maidan technologies are obvious” the narrator says.

The report starts: “A wave of aggression from Vladivostok to Moscow, targeted and controlled, with protesters openly attacking the policemen, trying to push them and best them up”

The report then goes into descriptions of criminal charges for attacking cops, featuring a photo and personal info of one of the detainees from Vladivostok. Message is - we’ll find everyone and there will be charges.

“Supporters of Navalny the blogger lured children to the protests... those for whom the flag is the blue underpants are attacking policemen using children as a human shields.” With the appearance of non other but Lesya Ryabtseva.

The reports ends with pictures of Rosgvardia officers handing out hot tea and cookies.

“But despite all the online propaganda... the parent communities managed to prevent mass participation of teenagers in illegal demos. There were more freaks that kids”

“Where else in the world the police gives away cookies in response to beatings? But the provocateurs shouldn’t get too comfortable. Attacking a cop is a criminal charge, there are hundreds of videos where all the faces can be seen and there won’t be any cookies in the courtrooms”