The best moment in this video is, of course, at the 13-second mark. You can really see the lively working atmosphere of the first day of our news project.
To shut down our news broadcast and livestream, the police first sawed through the door to the ACF office (Anti-Corruption Foundation), and then started sawing through the studio door right in the middle of the news.
And do you know the official reason? Dmitry Nizovtsev, the news anchor, was accused of planting a bomb—the one they supposedly had to urgently cut through the doors to search for (without him ever leaving the live broadcast, apparently).
And this is how they detained him. Take a look—it’s a good illustration of what the Russian police have turned into.
I’m proud of our entire news team, who were ready for all of this on the very first day of broadcasting. I’m proud of everyone taking part in today’s protests in any capacity: from Magadan to Sochi. From the ACF office (Anti-Corruption Foundation) to the headquarters in Kemerovo. From Krasnodar to Yakutsk, where the rally took place at -45°C. These are real citizens.
Become citizens too. Come out to the protest in your city.
Moscow: 2:00 p.m., Tverskaya Street.
St. Petersburg: 2:00 p.m., Proletarian Dictatorship Square.