Moscow man detained, beaten for anti-Putin protest
A resident of Moscow came to Solovetsky Stone with a poster reading, "Putin's place is in prison." The man was beaten by the police, who threatened to send him to war.
Police in Moscow detained Vladislav Malakhov, who, on Tuesday, June 4, went on a picket at Solovetsky Stone with a poster reading "Putin's place is in prison." This information was reported by the independent Russian portal Meduza, which cited the detainee's wife.
According to Malakhov himself, after the arrest, the police forcefully dragged him into a police van, where they began kicking, trampling, and beating him.
According to him, the police threatened to send him to war. Malakhov was threatened with a taser and forced to unlock his phone. After copying the data, the police returned his device.
The police also forced the detainee to record a video message in which he stated that he had no complaints against the police.
Anniversary of Navalny's death. Protests in many cities
On June 4, the birthday of Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian colony in various cities across Russia, the police detained people who were bringing flowers to the monuments of victims of political repression.
According to OVD-Info, arrests occurred in Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Samara, and Ufa. In Moscow, two women were detained who came to the Borisov Cemetery, where Navalny is buried.
Special forces also disrupted an evening dedicated to Navalny's memory, whose participants watched a broadcast of the "Hello, this is Navalny" concert in Berlin.
