Starting live reporting from #Russia where the protests start in the Far East. This will be a long thread. There are 11 time zones in Russia. 🧵 #31января #Navalny #navalnyprotests #RussianProtests #PutinsPalace #Навальный t.me/teamnavalny/64…
142 cities are planning to step out in the streets. During the last week, #Putin/#Kremlin arrested and sentenced to home arrest w/o Internet/communication dozens of #Navalny coordinators/activists. Details 👇
More arrests from the last week 👇 The Kremlin is scared and uses fear as a tool, trying to intimidate Russians, stop them from protesting again. 23 January was unprecedented w/about 300,000 protesters, over 120 cities, 4,000 arrested.
The entire center of Vladivostok blocked by police. HQ changed the gathering point. Absolutely unprecedented mobilization of the security forces. Probably, to be expected in most cities/towns. Vladivostok: about 20 arrested already.zona.media/online/2021/01…
In Yakutsk, -45F again, people are gathering.
Valdivostok, people are not allowed to get to the gathering point, detained on the way #Navalny #navalnyprotests #31января thread 👇☝️ live coverage 🧵 Pls RT #RussiaProtests
The first arrests happened today in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk. Reports by @mediazzzona (editor arrested, overnight two journalists arrested in Moscow). These are fearless journalists and fearless people Support! RT!
Riot police arrest an elderly woman in Khabarovsk. Note ice sculptures, the signature decor of Russian protests. 🧵#navalnyprotests #Navalny #RussiaProtests
Video from Yakutsk. -45F (-43C). This is insane but last week it was -52F and now they know they can be arrested. Last time there were chants. Now they are silent. This is exceptional. Please let the world know. #31января
Incredible footage. They chant, in -45F, "We are for human rights!" #31января #RussiaProtests #navalnyprotests
While I am waiting for more reports on various channels/from sources: authorities block Internet; transportation; arrest coordinators, activists, bloggers, journalists; post fake info on gathering times/places. Getting to the protest is not an easy task...
...you have to walk in the freezing temperatures through police lines, blocked streets and we are not seeing the reports because communications is down. The Kremlin does not want the world to see that Russia wants Putin out. There are dozens of conspiracy theories spread by bots.
Several hundred police and riot police officers blocked all approaches to Lenin Square at the rally in Khabarovsk
And this is why trolls in my thread are sending photos of an empty Lenin Square (why is it still called after Lenin?!) saying that no one is there.
In Vladivostok, police blocked the access to the central square and pushed the protestors on ice. People are dancing a folk dance chanting, "Putin is a thief!" #Navalny #navalnyprotests #31января
In Khabarovsk, streets blocked.
In Irkutsk, people are starting to gather
The Kremlin is better prepared and controls social media now. The top two trending hashtag is "President is My Friend" Please help these brave people and spread the word! Let's make #navalnyprotests #RussiaProtests trend!!!
"According to Navalny's team (screenshot), the Kremlin's telegram channels are trying to spread false information about the postponement of tomorrow's protests." @SnowflakeRU
Yesterday, riot police was REHEARSING in St.Petersburg
A scene from Khabarovsk protest. Yes, snow sculptures. You already saw the ice ones...
13 people arrested in Khabarovsk, 30 or so in Vladivostok. Protests took place in Blagoveschensk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk. The authorities are prepared. People are scared. Let's see as the day is just about to start in the European time zone. kommersant.ru/doc/4671103
Just in: In Irkutsk, the police circled the protestors. People chant: "Shame, shame, shame!" t.me/teamnavalny/64…
Irkutsk now.
A good video from Vladivostok, people pushed away from downtown to walk on ice.
Magadan. The protest went peacefully.
Have to find out which city, but a poignant image. sharing. Rosgvardiya. National Guard.
It's Irkutsk. People chant: "Пошел ВОН, ты и твой и ОМОН!" (Putin, get out! You and your National Guard!"
It's Irkutsk. People chant: "Пошел ВОН, ты и твой и ОМОН!" (Putin, get out! You and your National Guard!" And here is a good idea why people can't get to the protest. From Khabarovsk, while we waiting for reports from other cities (that might not have Internet)
Now, the world, your chance to give back. A protestor in the tweet below says: "I want someone to applaud me and say that I'm great. All this time, my frozen fingers were typing promptly about what was happening in Yakutsk, despite the -45 degree." Support!
Translation: "Yakutsk. I can say that our action is done for today: the riot police "finished it off." I don't consider this action a success. Yakutsk is a bit cowardly, silent and inexperienced but the fact that we gathered, walked & said the right things means a lot to me" -45F
Arrest in Vladivostok. What strikes me today is the silence.
Barnaul just went online. People starting to show up, Lenin street (another one!!!) is blocked by police. Waiting.
#Navalny #NavalnyProtests #RussiaProtests
Tomsk is online. "Freedom to Aleksey Navalny," chants the crowd. "I am for all except for Putin. This regime must go," says a housewife in an interview to RusNews:
"Putin says in the US there were protests suppressed. Well, there they busted in the White House! They were violent! Here, the whole country was peaceful," says a speaker. A police officer asks everyone to disperse. "We are the power here!" chant people. #Navalny #NavalnyProtests
#RussiaWillBeFree, says the poster. Every one of these people can end up in jail. And those who take these videos and photos can go to prison for years.
(have to take a short break). When I am back, will report from Siberia. Four hours before Moscow and St.Petersburg join. 11 time zones. It just started.
Back. Ukhta is on and marching and chanting "Putin is a thief!"
2,000 in Novosibirsk, followed by police vans and riot police. 🧵☝️ 👇 Nationwide anti-#Putin protests in Russia #Navalny #NavalnyProtests #RussiaProtests
Tomsk, video, just arriving now. Chant: "Set him free! Set him free!"
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, police deployed vans along the planned route of the protest. 60 protesters. Six arrested.
In Kemerovo, the planned gathering place is blocked off, with snow removal equipment. Shops, pharmacies and internet cafes around are closed. mbk-news.appspot.com/news/aktsii-v-…
Arrests in Ulan-Ude. A man is arrested for chanting, "For free Russia!" "And now what kind of Russia do we have?" "Corrupt." Several people arrested in few minutes. People keep walking down Revolution street.
"Fewer people this time, partially because there were so many arrests this past week. People's deputies, journalists, human rights defendants." It is very quiet, just a police officer instructs everyone to leave on the loudspeaker.
In Chita, hundreds of police officers and law enforcement were deployed to prevent rallies. The central squares were blocked. -22F. Few people came out, according to a state-affiliated press. Can't trust the source (called "Moscow Young Leninist!) mkchita.ru/photo/gallery/…
Omsk, people are out and first arrests are reported.
Novosibirsk. "Three, two, one. Putin is not for us! One two, three, Putin go away," chants the crowd tayga.info/164057
Meanwhile, police keeps arresting and raiding activists all around the country--Samara, St.Petersburg, Moscow, more. As reported by Navalny LIVE, they are now streaming (in Russian)
Novosibirsk. "Freedom to my Motherland!" (poster) "Freedom!" chant the crowd.
Mass detentions in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk. As of now, at least 145 people were detained at protests throughout Russia, the majority (76) in Vladivostok. In Novokuznetsk, 20 arrested. Everyone who tried to approach the gathering point was preventively detained. #navalnyprotests
Looks like the person with the poster "Freedom to my Motherland" in Novosibirsk is now arrested.
Yes, they are. No freedom in this Motherland. #Russia
Meanwhile, in Moscow, police vans are all around the Kremlin. These are for peaceful protests.
Back in Far East/Siberia, several hundred protestors are arrested in Krasnoyarsk. A few tons of snow were transported by trucks and dumped on the pavement to make marching difficult.
Heartbreaking footage of a journalist arrest while streaming in Barnaul. After filming an arrest, a journalist is attacked by a police officer and placed in the police van, supine. Then, his phone is confiscated and the stream goes dark.
A man with a poster "It's time to do the President's brain raid" (in response to all the raids of the last week) is arrested in Ekaterinburg t.me/znak_ekb/8311
Meanwhile, a report from Moscow: all Internet will be switched off downtown. Police visited hotels, cafes, shops and required to turn on the Internet.
The journalist, arrested in Barnaul, is back streaming. He was thrown face down in an ambulance van. Police was informed on the radio that there is a live stream. They returned his phone and let him go. He continues streaming. Bravo!
150 people arrested in Vladivostok while authorities reported 60 protestors. They are trying to underreport so people in the European part of Russia stay home. This is why it is important to share images and information. Please help by sharing! #navalnyprotests
Novosibirsk. Reportedly 6,000. A man with Russian flag is being arrested. tayga.info/164057
Moscow is getting ready. "Welcome to Moscow!"
One of the central districts is blocked by police.
First arrest in Moscow, two hours before planned protest.
Ekaterinburg. Police try to block the procession that is trying to move towards (you guessed it!) Lenin prospect. They finally made it to Lening prospect now and moving to the central square.
Police detain everyone in Novokuznetsk: men and women, both young and old. "There are more police officers than ordinary people...I asked to explain why they were being detained. They said the postman was robbed. It seems that everyone was detained.tayga.info/164057
"Putin is a theif! Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief!" Chelyabinsk. Riot police dispersing the crowd. #Navalnyprotests
Brutal police violence in Chelyabinsk. "This is inhuman," says the woman. "Animals! My God! How did we live to see this!" #Navalnyprotests Help by RT.
In Siberia more than 130 detainees. Krasnoyarsk: 44. Novosibirsk: 22.
In Ekaterinburg, the irony: the crowd is marching by the store "Belarusan Products" (groceries) with "Mountains of Gifts" above it... Belarusan people have been protesting their dictator Lukashenko since August 2020. #navalnyProtests
First arrests in Orenburg, including a 16-year-old, reportedly the organizer, and a former activist of Navalny's headquarters.
In Ekaterinburg, a caravan of police vans is moving towards downtown. 7,000 protestors. t.me/znak_ekb/8344
2,000-3,000 in Omsk are chanting "Putin is a thief" and "Down with the Tsar". Police said that the church is closed (day off). It's Sunday; Russian Orthodox churches have services on Sundays. tayga.info/164057
Nizhny Tagil, a small town. "We are the power here!"
In Tumen, over 1,000 protestors. Meanwhile, the "Freedom to my Motherland" sign in Omsk is back--this time a group photo from a police station. In Moscow, by now, 6 detained. Still one hour before the protest starts there. #RussiaWillBeFree #PutinIsAThief #Navalny 👇☝️🧵
Ekaterinburg. Police tell people to disperse. "Shame, shame", chant protestors.
Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ekaterinburg: "Putin is a thief!"
Now that's a good one. Different. In Perm, horseback police. (Instant flashback: Tsar's police, 1905, Bloody Sunday.)
More arrests in Moscow (pre-emptively)
In Ekaterinburg, protesters gathered by the Drama theater and chant, "Fascists!"
Ufa...
In St.Petersburg, you can only walk down the main street, Nevsky prospect, if you show your passport first. Moscow downtown is blocked, 8 people arrested. 50 minutes before the start. The gathering points had to be changed as downtowns are completely closed.
In Ekaterinburg, police pushed protestors on the pond ice. I have several channels on, and at least in four cities at this moment people are chanting, "Putin is a thief!"
In Novosibirsk, "I am here because I want to live in a free country! We live in a beautiful city and today is sunny!" Immediately after this, more people are being arrested.
St. Petersburg. Winter Palace/The Hermitage. Some people are allowed to enter the Hermitage with tickets. People have to show ID, beg to get to work and on business. Fontanka.ru
In Chelyabinsk, riot police are beating the protestors with batons now
This is that horrifying site in Ufa, with police carrying a woman like a log.
On Dostoevsky Street in Novosibirsk, police surrounded a column of demonstrators. "Everyone who was there is loaded into a police van." (Just in case, a fun fact: Dostoevsky was arrested and sentenced to execution by a firing squad but sent to Siberia instead. Fast forward 150...
To cheer you up, a folk dance in Krasnoyarsk
Novosibirsk
Nevsky, St.Petersburg.
Julia Navalnaya, Aleksey's wife: "If we stay silent, tomorrow they will come for any of us. In a 16 level bunker, a random, scared person is deciding our fate--whom to poison, whom to imprison. This shouldn't be this way. And it won't."
People are starting to gather in St.Petersburg even though the whole downtown is closed and the gathering place was change the last minute.
(Will take a short break as protests in St.Petersburg and Moscow are about to start. Both cities are blocked; transport is not working; riot police, police, police vans, and heavy military equipment are everywhere.)
Back, and it is already not looking that great. St.Petersburg (my hometown), gathering point is the children's theater.
Hopefully, the old lady on Nevsky prospect is not being taken to a police van, says Fontanka.ru
Back to Siberia, Ulianovsk (Lenin's hometown). An arrested man is thrown with a bare stomach on the snow.
"I have never been to the occupied territories, but I think it must look something like this. We were occupied and we did not notice," someone tweets.
Dozens are arrested in Moscow, by "Chisty Prydu." People are led to police vans.
St.Pb: arrests on Nevsky and by the children's theater. Internet is very slow.
Note: a wrong photo on the right, Tweet above, from Ekaterinburg. This is from St.Pb.
In Moscow, a lovely bouquet of golden toilet brushes, to commemorate Putin's $2,000 toilet brush and $1.4 bn palace.
RusNews live from Moscow, the journalist is getting ready in case he is detained, live stream
RusNews live from St.Pb, the crows is chanting, "Fascists" (in Russian, the Internet is slow)
St.Petersburg, by the theater. Desacralization of the power, 100%. Poster 1: Bunker grandpa is afraid of me. Poster 2: Russia has two problems: Novichok and starichok (little old man). A young man is being arrested.
Heartbreaking posters. "For Your Freedom and Ours--and His." Famous poster from 1968 protest against Soviet occupation of Prague; protestors spent years in prison for 5 min demonstration. "One for all and all for one"--3 Muskeeters, 19th century code of honor.
In Chelyabinsk, people made a chain in front of riot police and chant, "We are not armed."
Over 100 people arrested in Moscow at Sukharevskaya
As of now, (12:25, Moscow) at least 650 people were detained in Russia. Photos from Moscow where people are being packed into vans.
Arkhangelsk, Far North, is out in the streets
Moscow, a young girl is being arrested
In Moscow, the journalist of RusNews is actually really funny. He scolds riot police. It is not funny but he makes me laugh. "Putin is a thief! Putin is a thief!" chant people. "Freedom! Freedom!" chant young people!
St.Petersburg: an amazing photographer/s... #Navalny #Navalnyprotests #RussiaProtests Fontanka.ru
St.Pb: An actress is looking out of the theater at the protestors. ...
Crowds on Sakharov Prospect in Moscow is chanting, "Freedom! Freedom!" Russia is a country of symbols. Sakharov was an activist for human rights, lived in exile. Riot police is everywhere, police vans are arriving
Chaos, arrests, hard to follow.
St. Petersburg, horror scenes
This was St.Petersburg. This is also St.Pb.
878 people detained all over Russia, arrests continue. Beating in Rostov-na-Donu
In St.Petersburg, arrests, people bombard police with snowballs t.me/fontankaspb/10…
In Moscow, unidentified persons in civilian clothes) detain people. Protestors are standing up to them and there are tough battles."zona.media/online/2021/01…
Need to take a minute. Will be right back.
St. Petersburg, chant: "Off with the Tsar." Brave.
St. Petersburg.
All over the country. St.Pb.
In St.Pb, a protestor fainted after five riot police officers beat him up.
A man in Moscow is arrested for chanting "Freedom!"
In Moscow, on livestream, one young girl is crying, shaking; another is screaming at riot police. Arrests.
Electric shockers spotted in St.Pb
Brutality in Moscow
Peaceful protestors
Tear gas used in St.Petersburg
In Volgograd, protesters are being detained by people in plain clothes in black hats and black medical masks.
National Guard enters in Moscow.
St.Petersburg, riot police uses gas, video, (in the article) fontanka.ru/2021/01/31/697…
St. Petersburg, Sennaya square. 21 people arrested at this point
St.P, a journalist arrested, batons used, riot police attacks peaceful people
Troops arriving
1,009 detained nationwide. 142 in Moscow, 113 in Vladivostok. At least 31 journalists, 47 minors were detained.zona.media/online/2021/01…
In St.Petersburg, protestors were blocked and are crossing the river on ice. At least the third time in the country today.
Nizhny Novgorod
St.Pb. They do have outstanding photographers. Kids and old people. Riot polic--OMON--has no shame.
St. Pb. Shame.
Putin has unleashed army and riot police at Russian people. This is Moscow.
I just watched riot police clearing <3 Navalny written in snow--with a baton. In Moscow.
In Moscow, riot police pick random people from the crowd, chase them and detain them. "Let's get this one!"
Yulia Navalny joined people in Moscow.
RusNews is an incredible channel. They have 5 cameras in Moscow, several in St.Petersburg, and were streaming from many cities today. They are courageous, and commentary is great. Respect.
They will never take people's side.
St. Petersburg, by the Mayor's office. St.Isaac's Cathedral in the back.
More brutal arrests in Moscow.
In Sochi, random pedestrians are arrested. Kids with toys, a couple with a dog, tourists.
The journalist who reported about the arrests in Sochi is now arrested, too. zona.media/online/2021/01…
Reportedly, 4,000 people in St.Petersburg, at St.Isaac's square
In Kazan, riot police put people face down in the snow.
Please RT. The world needs to see this.
Arrested: 1645 people in 75 cities.
In Moscow, protestors are moving toward "Sailor's Silence" prison where Navalny is kept.
In Moscow, random arrests by the prison
St.Petersburg. Read the ice.
St.Pb
Moscow now. Protesters are marching to the prison
Kazan. Video of people forced to sit in the snow by riot police
St.Pb now
300 riot policemen brought up to the St. Pb Legislative Assembly. They use violence. Something exploded. People chant "Putin is a thief!" Mediazona
I missed this: in Moscow, an hour ago
St.Pb. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Courage
Okay. It's 4 am where I am. I really hope that no one suffers at this point. Please help the Russian people to get rid of a murderer and thief who usurped the power. RT, share information. Demand sanctions on Putin's cronies. I will write this into an article. Read @BylineTimes.
My deep respect for protesters, journalists, and photographers. <3 Russia will be free! #Navalny #NavalnyProtests #RussiaProtests #31января 🧵☝
Hi, I slept a little and will now finish the report. My sources seem to be okay and free for now. Will check on Moscow/St.Pet/European zone & numbers now. #navalnyprotests 🧵👆🏼👇🏼‼️
As of now, over 4,000 people arrested in 85 cities. Navalny’s wife Julia detained. 82 journalists detained. Brutality, electroshock.
The most common chant was “Putin is a thief!” Moscow:
In Moscow, protestors stood in front of police with arms raised in the air in surrender/disarmed position chanting “Let them (us) go free”
In St.Petersburg, brutality. A man fainted after being beaten by police. Officers say, “he is faking it.”
In St.Petersburg, police used tear gas, tasers, and batons to beat up protestors. One officer directed a gun at unarmed crowd.
Nizhny Novgorod was occupied: transportation on hold, riot police, troops, National Guard. Unprecedented for the city
Small towns and villages stepped out in the streets. Berezniki, people are carrying toilet brushes and chanting “Away with despotism’
Still looking for a total number of protestors nationwide. 50,000 at least based on my reports but will verify. Will now put together a short report for an article for @BylineTimes. Please RT.
🧵detailed report nationwide unprecedented protests shake Russia. #Putin is a thief, chants the whole country. Army &police brutally suppress peaceful demonstrations👆🏼💥💔🔥Please RT #Russia #RussiaProtest #Navalny #navalnyprotests #PutinsPalace #31января #31января2021 #Navalnyi
The rest of the giant thread (nationwite protest report)
The rest of the tweet (got lost during while thread-making, with a few screens on, sorry)
Full report (rough draft) in one place here; by cities. Will edit and add more; information is coming in. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/we-are-not-afr…

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