In Moscow, security forces began dispersing protesters on Bolotnaya Square, pushing people into neighboring streets and calling for them to disperse.
Security forces at Bolotnaya Square called on everyone gathered to disperse. They were pushed back to neighboring streets.
As a correspondent for “Beware, News” reported, riot police and other riot police began using loudspeakers to disperse people from the entrance to Bolotnaya Square. The crowd, mostly teenagers, then left. Earlier, eyewitnesses told us that the police told us to leave the square because “an event was taking place in the Kremlin”: “They said that if they were ordered to tie us up, they would tie us up too.”
One girl was taken to a paddy wagon after shouting, “Dear riot police and riot police, we need your protection.” They are still talking to her. People are being asked not to gather in the alley opposite the paddy wagons. One Muscovites was asked to leave because he was sitting on a bench that had been painted.
In St. Petersburg, security forces are on duty at Lenin Square, where they are also checking documents. The square's public garden is cordoned off with a metal fence and warning tape. According to eyewitnesses, a small group of people has gathered at the square, where a rally against the blockades has been announced. A Bumaga correspondent (a foreign agent) reported that one person has been detained. In Murmansk, police have deployed the “Russian Community” to the city center.
