Unrest on Manege Square. Riots on Manezhnaya Square

The 2010 Manezhnaya Square riots were mass riots that occurred in Moscow on December 11, 2010. They gathered on Manezhnaya Square, different estimates, from 5 to 50 thousand people for a rally dedicated to the memory of Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov. The young man died during an attack by a group of people from the North Caucasus on a group of football fans, which occurred on December 6, 2010. Actions law enforcement During the investigation, the murders were perceived in society as covering up the suspects, which provoked protests. The rally at Manezhnaya escalated into clashes with the police. As a result of the riots, more than 10 people were injured, and several dozen fans were detained. After the riots, a series of mass rallies and street clashes occurred between indigenous residents and people from the Caucasian republics in Russian cities.

Background

The immediate cause of the riots were the events of December 6, 2010 at a bus stop near house 37 on Kronstadt Boulevard in Moscow, when a conflict occurred between Yegor Sviridov and Aslan Cherkesov. 26-year-old Aslan Cherkesov from Kabardino-Balkaria killed Yegor Sviridov with a series of shots from a Streamer 1014 traumatic pistol and wounded his comrade Dmitry Filatov. During the fight, Sviridov's friends - Gasparyan, Karnakov and Petrechenko - were also injured. A total of 12 cartridges were found at the scene of the attack. As a result of investigative measures, Aslan Cherkesov himself was detained, as well as other participants in the attack - Nariman Ismailov from Dagestan, Khasan Ibragimov and Artur Alfibiev. Of the five detainees, four participants in the fight (Artur Arsibiev, Anoi Anaev, Ramazan Utarbiev and Khosin Ibragimov) were released and then left Moscow altogether, which in turn caused public outrage.

The very next day, December 7, 1,000 football fans marched along Leningradsky Prospekt, effectively blocking it.

On December 11, a procession in memory of 5,000 Spartak fans took place to the site of the death of Yegor Sviridov on Kronstadt Boulevard with the laying of flowers. The fans were supported by bikers, as well as fans of other football clubs. A memorial service was held at the scene of the murder. By 13:30 the number of participants in the action had increased to 7 thousand people. By 15:00, the center of events moved to Manezhnaya Square, where the culmination of the all-Russian action in memory of Yegor Sviridov took place, which resulted in mass riots.

On December 12, near the Kolomenskaya metro station, five teenagers attacked a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, beat him and stabbed him, as a result of which he died. According to investigators, the young people wanted to “revenge” the murder of Sviridov.

Chronicle of events on Manezhnaya Square

By 15:00 on Manezhnaya Square, from 5 thousand (according to the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate) to 50 thousand participants (according to the Rossiya 24 TV channel) had gathered for an unauthorized rally. The rally participants chanted slogans: “Russians, forward,” “One for all and all for one,” and shouted nationalist slogans. Passers-by of non-Slavic appearance who happened to be nearby were beaten. The police could not do anything about aggressive crowd. As a result, there were massive clashes between rally participants and riot police. The head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, came out to the protesters and tried to calm the raging crowd. However, he did not succeed, mainly because when asked: “Why were Yegor’s killers released?” he still couldn't answer. Protesters lit fireworks, exploded firecrackers, and threw empty bottles, snowballs and stones.

While retreating, protesters smashed lampshades at the Okhotny Ryad metro station and beat several people. At Teatralnaya station at 18:15, an attack was made on “a visitor from Uzbekistan.” However, the victim did not identify the detainees; the detainees themselves did not agree with the charges brought against them and were released.

It was initially reported that 19 people were hospitalized as a result of the unrest, but by night the number in hospital had risen to 29 people. Riot policemen were injured - initially 5, later 8 people were reported. A total of 35 people were injured. Reports of one death were denied by the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. 65 people were detained. A Christmas tree prepared for the New Year celebration was damaged.

Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that DPNI activists took part in organizing the rally on Manezhnaya.

The Chairman of the Union of Student Associations of Moscow, Azamat Mintsaev, said on December 13, the Public Chamber reported that Caucasians, through the social network VKontakte, began to agree on a reciprocal protest on December 15 at the Evropeisky shopping center near the Kievsky railway station. In turn, the head of the Youth Affairs Committee of the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus, Sultan Togonidze, clarified that the Caucasians want the meeting to be official and representatives of all diasporas to take part in it. At the same time, Togonidze noted that even if permission is not given, they will still gather at the “European”, since “now it is not easy to refuse a retaliatory step. Caucasians are tense and will not listen.”

The Moscow authorities, trying to prevent new unrest, responded to these reports seriously and deployed riot police from the Caucasus to the supposed place of protest. At the exit from the metro, all suspicious persons were searched and, if necessary, detained.

In total, about a thousand people were detained, more than 100 of them were armed with bladed and traumatic weapons, most of them came from the North Caucasus.

As a result of these emergency measures, mass fights were avoided, but many local skirmishes. Around 5:30 p.m., a clash occurred between Russians and Caucasians using baseball bats and rebar on the Smolenskaya embankment.

In total, about 1,200 people were detained in Moscow. Red Square was blocked. Clashes between Caucasians and police officers also took place underground in the area of the Tretyakovskaya and Yugo-Zapadnaya metro stations. According to some reports, 30 people were injured as a result of clashes in Moscow. The detained Caucasians turned out to be either students capital universities , or those who came to the planned rally on appeals on the Internet after the events of December 11. The so-called Caucasian support consisted mainly of North Caucasians who came from the southern regions of Russia - North Caucasus

(Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria). An attempt at a mass brawl was recorded by the police in St. Petersburg in the Sennaya Square area.

On December 15, there was another rally of Russian nationalists at the Smolenskaya metro station, which was stopped by police officers who detained, checked, disarmed and put suspicious individuals in paddy wagons. They were armed with a wide variety of weapons, including Japanese swords.

That day in St. Petersburg on Sennaya Square there were clashes between Caucasians and the police, about a hundred people were detained (including several bystanders).

Also that day, near the Tretyakovskaya station, about 100 Caucasians with weapons attacked ten riot police.

Version of provocation by the authorities

Individual opinions were expressed in some media and blogs that the unrest on December 15 in the area of Europe Square, Kievsky Station and Smolenskaya metro station, as well as subsequent mass arrests, were provoked by the authorities and security forces in order to demonstrate their strength, determination, and restore the reputation of the internal affairs agencies in the eyes of the general public, since it was seriously shaken after the events of December 11 on Manezhnaya Square, which clearly demonstrated the inability of the police and internal affairs agencies to prevent mass crime and unrest.

This version is also supported by the fact that on December 15, in the Kyiv metro area, mainly people aged 14 to 20 years old, who were high school students, students of secondary specialized and higher education, gathered together. educational institutions, and big number journalists and reporters covering this event. At the same time, for the most part, those who came did not show aggression and did not offer resistance to the riot police, and sometimes, judging by numerous photographs, the detained citizens even looked happy.

All this is strikingly different from the nature of the events of December 11 on Manezhnaya Square, in which mainly people of strong physique aged 20-30 took part, who were quite aggressive and put up serious resistance when trying to disperse the unauthorized rally.

According to information published Russian media, one of the possible provocateurs is Moscow State University applicant Levon Arzumanyan, who carried a photograph of Sviridov with a provocative inscription on December 11 and raised his hand in a Nazi salute on December 15 at Europe Square in Moscow. In one of the videos published on the Internet from the events of December 15 at the Square of Europe, it was noticed that Arzumanyan appeared on the square accompanied by the head of the information and public relations department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, police colonel Viktor Biryukov, and a plainclothes police officer who ensured that no arrests were made young man riot policemen. Representative of the pro-Kremlin movement “Nashi” Anastasia Fedorenchik confirmed that it was him in the photographs, but denied the information that he is the movement’s commissar.

Also, in one of the videos from the events of December 11, published on the Internet, Colonel Biryukov can be seen entering the thick of the protesters, shaking hands with an unknown middle-aged man and saying something in his ear, to which Biryukov’s interlocutor shakes his head affirmatively. The video also shows that next to the indicated person (on the left in the video) there is a man wearing a mask and a jacket with a fur hood, who later spoke on behalf of those gathered in negotiations with the police. Also, in video recordings from the events of December 11, among those detained by riot police, a man was seen, identified as an active member of the pro-Kremlin movement “Young Russia” Valery Zaborovsky, while according to Interfax, protocols on administrative offense were drawn up by police officers, only in relation to 65 of the detained 66 participants in the street action on Manezhnaya Square.

Later, in September 2011, on the NTV channel in the program “ The last word. Did you cause a pogrom? one of the participants, a masked person introduced by Ivan, argued that the events of December 2010 at Manezhnaya, like the events at Manezhnaya in 2002, were a provocation of the authorities and the police. The words of the unknown were confirmed by the correspondent of the newspaper “Soviet Sport” Kirill Zangalis. During the debate, the unknown person also claimed that the masked man who participated in negotiations with Kolokoltsev on behalf of those gathered in December 2010 was a representative of the public security police.

At the trial of Other Russia activists accused of participating in the riots, Alexey Khudyakov, a member of Young Russia, testified against them. Khudyakov was brought to trial by a well-known employee of the “E” center, Alexei Okopny, who had previously been seen in cases related to “The Other Russia”.

Investigation and government response

On December 12, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev commented on the events in Moscow in his microblog on Twitter: “And the last thing for today. Along Manezhnaya. In the country and in Moscow, everything is under control. We'll deal with everyone who did shit. With everyone. Do not doubt".

On December 14, 11 cases + the case of injured police officers, Sobyanin spoke (expressed condolences to the family of the deceased Yegor Sviridov and praised the police for their actions at Manezhnaya). State Duma deputy Nikolai Levichev, close to the speaker of the Federation Council, said that the cause of the unrest on Manezhnaya Square was the failure of the Kremlin’s youth policy.

Another senior politician, Vladislav Surkov, called the incident a direct result of the actions of the liberal opposition, saying that “11 comes from 31.” In order to avoid an escalation of the conflict, the authorities of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate deliberately misinformed the public, declaring the absence of clashes where, as it turned out later, they did occur. At the same time, according to the head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, “the instigators of the riots for the most part have nothing to do with sports teams, but used the tragic occasion in their nationalist games.”

However, according to eyewitnesses, participants and bloggers, the majority of rally participants did not use nationalist symbols. In October 2011, a jury in the Moscow City Court found Aslan Cherkesov guilty of murder and malicious hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 105 and Part 2 of Article 213) and sentenced him to 20 years in a maximum security colony; the rest of the Caucasians who took part in the fight on Kronstadt Boulevard: Khasan Ibragimov, Ramazan Utarbiev, Artur Arsibiev, Anoy Anaev and Nariman Ismailov received 5 years in prison each

general regime

for malicious hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213).

On August 8, 2012, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced Vitaly Vasin (threatened the police with a traumatic pistol) to three years probation for participating in the riots, Grigory Bilchenko (kicked one of the riot police) to two years probation, Vladimir Kirpichnikov (threw a piece of a metal Christmas tree into the helmet of one employee, weighing 1.5 kg) three years in prison and Nikolai Dvoinyakov (throwing metal barriers at employees) two years in prison. These four people were involved in a separate case, were not political activists and were simply Spartak fans.

On July 27, 2012, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow sentenced the participants in the murder of December 12, 2011. Ilya Kubrakov, the main person responsible, immediately after the riots was called one of the organizers of the events on Manezhnaya Square. Later he was a witness in cases of participation in the riots. Then the investigation suspected him of participating in the murder on December 12th. The court found out that it was Kubrakov who stabbed the murdered man. Kubrakov was sentenced to six years in prison, Mikhail Kuznetsov to three years, Vladislav Guryanov and Roman Logvinov each received 2 and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. At the time of the crime, Kubrakov was 14 years old, the rest of the participants were aged from 16 to 23 years.

Reaction from members of the public

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' addressed the events on Manezhnaya Square.

The head of the Caucasian Legal Center at the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Shamil Osmanov, openly stated in response to the events that occurred:

“There is no need to run around the gates with knives after skinheads, let the police deal with them. I tell young people: you have different tasks, you came here to study and work. And according to Sharia law, you can have four wives. So get married, have children and work honestly. Then not only Moscow, all of Russia will be ours.”

Co-chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Nafigulla Ashirov stated:

“All these actions of fans are someone’s planned action for the separation of the Caucasus from Russia. What Dzhokhar Dudayev failed to do, nationalists decided to do in Moscow.”

Vice-President of the Federal Lezgin National-Cultural Autonomy Ruslan Kurbanov noted:

“20 years of complete ignorance of such a subtle sphere as national policy, have borne fruit. Mutual hatred and intolerance affected all layers Russian society. And what happened on Saturday on Manezhnaya Square is obvious evidence that every new skirmish and clash on ethnic grounds can become a point of no return for Russia.”

MGIMO professor, party leader " New power“Valery Solovey believes that “For a long time, all peoples, except Russian, in Russia were allowed to show nationalism. Now Russian youth have shown that nationalism is becoming widespread... The authorities themselves provoked clashes on Manezhnaya Square. It has not fulfilled its main function - protecting the country's citizens from violence. Her inaction infuriated people and forced them to take to the streets.”

Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev, b. the press secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' wrote that “The protest at Manezhnaya is only nationalism in appearance. Essentially, this is a cry of pain and despair because those who are called upon to protect us are betraying us. A pogrom is always the reaction of the defenseless, who are tired of hoping for protection from the authorities. This is an ugly reaction to the ugliness of those who supposedly should have restrained evil and punished it in a civil manner, but for some reason they don’t do just that. If TV had shown those who freed Yegor’s killers, and shown how they walked in handcuffs along a carpet of torn star epaulets of their superiors, there would not be today’s Manezhnaya Square.”

President of the CSKA football club Evgeny Giner:

“There are many questions for law enforcement agencies. Why were the people suspected of murder immediately released? I’m sure if this hadn’t happened, there wouldn’t have been any riots.”

Philosopher Alexander Dugin expressed the opinion that on Manezhnaya Square on December 11 we saw a society that declares its fundamental disagreement with:

The state of affairs in the legal sphere,

Ethnic politics in Moscow,

Attitude towards the Russian majority,

Social injustice surrounding on all sides.

A retaliatory anti-fascist action called “Moscow for All” was planned for December 26. The action was supposed to begin at noon on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. It was initiated by Viktor Shenderovich, and a number of cultural figures from the country expressed their support: Leonid Parfenov, Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Shirvindt and others.

Sociological research

According to a survey conducted by the Russian News Service radio station, 87% of listeners supported the demonstrators. 83% of listeners of the program " Real time“On the radio station Finam FM, the demonstration on Manezhnaya Square is considered an expression of civil protest, 17% - an act of radicals.

Agency social technologies"Polytech" with the assistance of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences published a study "Interethnic intolerance among urban youth." According to this study, 76% of the young people surveyed sympathized with the participants in the protests on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, 78% of respondents called the events at Manezhka a protest against corruption and so-called ethnic crime (58%) and did not see this as a nationalist performance, although the main slogans were “Russia for Russians” and “Moscow for Muscovites”.

December 11, 2010 at the scene of the football murder Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov, on Kronstadt Boulevard, a memorial event took place. Egor was killed on the night of December 6 by Caucasian bandits and buried in the Lublin cemetery.

Later Mass riots took place on Manezhnaya Square. In memory of the murdered Yegor Sviridov, about 10,000 people came to the square by 3 p.m., at first they burned fireworks and chanted nationalist slogans, and 30 minutes later a clash began with riot police.

In the morning, Kronstadt Boulevard was blocked in Moscow. Thousands of people formed a procession to the stop near which their comrade Yegor Sviridov died. He was killed as a result of a fight that occurred here on the night of December 6, 2010. Groups of fans constantly replaced each other. Everything was calm, no slogans, no flags, no disputes with the police.

The place of Sviridov’s death is a stop at Kronstadsky Boulevard, 37, a 10-minute walk from the Vodny Stadium metro station:

At some point the flowers caught fire:

At 15:00 on December 11, 2010 the event, dedicated to memory Egor Sviridov, moved to Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. This promotion was announced 3 days in advance! There were no police, fans started lighting fireworks and smoke bombs:

Not without the Orthodox Banner Bearers. We will see this young man with a broken head again. In general, I was unpleasantly surprised by the abundance of “Orthodox” people who wanted to kill Caucasians:

Girls about 15-16 years old shouting “Death to black-assed people!” and “Russia for Russians!”:

Manezhnaya Square was not chosen by chance. It has long been chosen by guests from the southern regions of the country, who create chaos here every day. Young people behave cheekily, pick on girls, provoke fights, etc. National dances have become traditional, which the Moscow authorities have been trying to ban for a long time and unsuccessfully. There was no one in the square today.

About 10,000 people gathered:

There weren’t even Balkars, who have been starving for 150 days and are sitting here in any weather. They were taken away by the police.

Several riot police are watching what is happening. Nobody interferes. One decided to say into a megaphone: “Your action was not approved, leave.” After this, all the police had to quickly leave the square.

The crowd chanted: “Glory to Rus', suck the Caucasus!”, “Russia for the Russians, Moscow for the Muscovites!”, “In Moscow the Russian master!”, “Forward Russia, we are with you!”, “Fuck the Caucasus, f* *sh!”:

"Russians are coming!"

The reason for the outbreak of clashes was 7 young men from the Caucasus, who traditionally walked along Manezhnaya Square. When a crowd of fans noticed them, a fight broke out. Several Moscow riot police fought off the kids from the crowd, but were unable to protect them:

Echo correspondent Vladimir Romensky writes:

“Suddenly there was movement. They ran, about 15 people different sides. “Beat the khacha!” - one shouted. “Now we’ll win back!” - another noted enthusiastically.

I didn't see how it started, but I saw how it was finished. This body was kicked by several people. It seemed that a person could not be like that, rubber or something. The blows landed on the body, on the face, on the head. He was thrown up and dropped at the same time. “We don’t kill, we don’t kill,” one of the attackers remarked. A few more kicks. Above. On the head. I thought this was the end of one human life. A second later they ran away. It lay in a dirty sack next to the illuminated dome. There were a few observers left. “What’s wrong? Did they kill Churka? - one of the young people passing by was surprised."

When reinforcements arrived, the crowd demanded that 7 young men still alive be handed over to them in order to commit lynching on them. The riot police refused, and then the fury of the football fans spread to the police:

Pieces of reinforcement, blocks of ice, decorations from the New Year tree, fireworks were used, and at the height of the battle, noise grenades or powerful firecrackers began to explode. They threw several bottles with something flammable:

What struck me most was the preparation of the authorities for this action. It was known about it 3 days ago. However, nothing was done to prevent the riots. Merchants on the square sold beer in glass bottles, and these bottles were then thrown at the police. Many traders closed when the action began, but some continued to operate.

Mokhovaya Street was blocked. The traffic police clearly did not expect such a turn. Despite the fact that protesters’ “shells” were flying onto the roadway, traffic was blocked when the crowd broke through the cordon and went out into the street:

Unconscious:

In total, police officers detained more than 70 people, all of them were taken to the police department for disobedience to police officers, 15 of them were minors:

The same young man with a broken head:

There are no official data, but I heard that 9 police officers were taken to the hospital. One was brought in with a fire burn.

This one is already being prepared for the Sochi 2014 Olympics:

At mass riots, I was always surprised by the spectators in the front rows. As if nothing had happened, a man with a child walks along the road and stares. He is asked:
- Get out of here, let us get you out!
- No, I came to look!
- What are you talking about! Something will pop into your head now!
- Come on, I'll be careful!

After the square was partially cleared, the crowd built barricades. The riot police did not advance. For about 30 minutes everyone stood and waited. Pieces of ice and fireworks were thrown at the police:

Periodically, the area was shrouded in smoke from lit bombs:

The head of the Moscow police, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, is trying to come to an agreement. Well done, he went out alone to the crowd.
- Take off your mask!
- I won’t take off my mask!
- Take it off, the general is talking to you!
- I won’t take off my mask, are we talking or not?

He promises to restore order and speaks in dry, protocol language. “Tell them that you will solve the Caucasian issue,” the masked man advises:

Where are Volkov's killers!? We don't want to wait any longer! Why were the murderers released?
— We carried out measures, the investigator decided that the detainees could be released...
- Why did you let them go? How much did they pay you? When will they be punished?
- We don’t punish, I can’t answer this question for you, this is a question for the prosecutor’s office...
- Why did you come then? Let the prosecutor come!
Despite the fact that the crowd was clearly not in the mood for dialogue, after 30 minutes the riot police retreated, and the protesters began to slowly disperse.

One Uzbek was stripped down to his underpants and beaten right on the platform; he lost consciousness. In total, about 10 metropolitan policemen watched this, but they could not do anything:

No one interfered with the beating; the victims tried to escape, but there were a lot of fans. Ordinary passengers were hiding between the columns of the station, the police tried to take people of Caucasian nationality upstairs to the station in order to save them.

And fights with people from the Caucasus.

Security forces used loudspeakers to call on those gathered to disperse, since the protest was not authorized. In response, the riot police that cordoned off Manezhnaya Square threw metal fencing frames, empty bottles, Christmas decorations from the Christmas tree decorated at the Manege exhibition center. Those gathered burned smoke bombs and flares. According to eyewitnesses, some brought explosives with them and also threw them at the riot police. One of the protesters fired upwards from a traumatic pistol.

According to eyewitnesses, the actions of the riot police were quite harsh, but not comparable to what those gathered in the square were doing. For a long time, the riot police did not receive the command to act harshly, since the police leadership hoped for the prudence of the participants in the action. The police officers never used their service weapons, despite the danger to their lives.

The actions of the police saved the lives of several citizens of non-Slavic appearance who found themselves not far from Manezhnaya Square. The riot police first had to recapture them, beaten, from the militant crowd, and then literally close them in while waiting for reinforcements own bodies from the rioters.

The protesters began to leave the square only after the head of the capital’s police department, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, came out to them. The official promised that the murder of Yegor Sviridov would be solved and those responsible would be punished.

After the meeting with the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the protesters moved from Manezhnaya Square to the Teatralnaya and "Teatralnaya" metro stations Okhotny Ryad“, they beat up “persons of Caucasian nationality” they met. A fight also took place at the “University” metro station.

At the Okhotny Ryad station, the confrontation ended in a clash between riot police and rioters. The incident was quickly contained.

As a result of the riots on Manezhnaya Square, 32 people were injured, 7 people were hospitalized. According to the police, 34 people sought medical help. In addition, eight riot police officers were injured, one of whom had a fire thrown at him.

Police officers detained 65 people. They were taken to the police station, had a conversation with them, and in the morning all the detainees were released, having previously drawn up administrative protocols against them. Six minors were among those detained.

According to Rashid Nurgaliev, who held the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at that time, left-wing radical youth were behind the unrest.

Associations of football fans stated that they had nothing to do with what happened at Manezhnaya, where people rioted for several hours, shouting, among other things, slogans of a nationalist nature.

Deputy capital prosecutor Alexei Zakharov said that law enforcement agencies opened about ten criminal cases against the rally participants. A separate case was initiated regarding the use of violence against the police.

The investigation into the criminal case of mass riots on Manezhnaya Square has been completed.

In the dock: a citizen of Belarus, an activist of the unregistered public association "The Other Russia", a participant in the "Strategy 31" movement Igor Berezyuk, an activist of the "Other Russia" who acted with him in a preliminary conspiracy, Kirill Unchuk, an activist of the "Other Russia" Ruslan Khubaev, as well as Leonid Panin and Alexander Kozevin. They were charged with inciting mass riots, hooliganism, inciting hatred or enmity, using violence against a government official, and involving a minor in the commission of a crime.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced five defendants in the case of riots on Manezhnaya Square to prison terms ranging from two to five and a half years. The court sentenced Panin to two years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, Unchuk - three years in a general regime colony, Berezyuk - 5.5 years in a general regime colony, Khubaev - 4 years in a maximum security colony, and Kozevin - 2.5 years in a maximum security colony. mode. The court acquitted the defendants of a number of charges against them.

Thus, Berezyuk was acquitted of charges of involving a minor in mass riots. Defendant Unchuk and Panin were acquitted by the court on charges of inciting mass riots. The court also found the position of the state prosecution regarding the particularly active role of Khubaev and Berezyuk in organizing the riots on Manezhnaya Square unfounded. Thus, the majority of the defendants were convicted under two articles - “Hooliganism” and “Use of violence against law enforcement officers.”

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence imposed for three defendants by several months. In particular, Ruslan Khubaev received three years and ten months in prison instead of four years. The court reduced Berezyuk's sentence by three months. Another convict, Alexander Kozevin, was reduced by the court from 2.5 years to two years and four months.

The investigation into the second criminal case regarding the riots on Manezhnaya Square was completed. In the dock are Nikolai Dvoynyakov, Vitaly Vasin, Vladimir Kirpichnikov and Grigory Bilchenko. Depending on the role of each, they were charged under articles of mass disorder, hooliganism, inciting hatred or enmity, and using violence against a government official.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced the defendants in the second case of the riots on Manezhnaya Square to terms ranging from two years probation to three years of actual imprisonment. The court sentenced Vladimir Kirpichnikov to three years in a general regime colony, Nikolay Dvoinyakov - two years in a general regime colony, Vitaly Vasin - three years suspended, and Grigory Bilchenko - two years suspended. According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, it was established that Dvoinyakov threw metal barriers at the riot police officers, Vasin pointed a traumatic pistol at them, Bilchenko threw metal sticks at the policemen and hit the helmet of a riot police officer, and Kirpichnikov, trying to break through the cordon, struck kicked one of the law enforcement officers.

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentences of two of the four defendants in the second case of riots on Manezhnaya Square - Vitaly Vasin and Nikolai Dvoinyakov. The sentence of Dvoinyakov, previously sentenced to two years in prison, was revised and commuted by one month. His real sentence was replaced by restriction of freedom. In relation to Vasin, the court reduced the sentence by three months, that is, to two years and nine months of suspended imprisonment.

The Moscow City Court again commuted the sentence of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow dated August 8, 2012. By the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court, Kirpichnikov’s sentence was commuted by three months - from three years to two years and nine months in a general regime colony. Dvoinyakov's sentence was commuted by one month. The judges also commuted Vasin’s sentence from two years and nine months to two years and seven months of suspended imprisonment. In addition, Bilchenko’s sentence was commuted to one year and ten months of suspended imprisonment.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced Pavel Vazhenin, the last person involved in the case of riots on Manezhnaya Square, to three years in prison. Vazhenin for committing crimes under Part 3 of Article 212 (calls for mass riots), Part 2 of Article 213 (hooliganism), Part 1 of Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity), and Part 1 of Article 318 (use of violence against a government official) of the Criminal Code RF. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow found Vazhenin guilty of using violence against a government official and hooliganism, but stopped prosecuting him for inciting riots and inciting hatred due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The defendant's defense appealed the verdict.

The Moscow City Court recognized the legality of the sentence of Pavel Vazhenin, who was sentenced to three years in prison.

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of the last defendant in the case of the riots on Manezhnaya Square in the capital, Pavel Vazhenin, from three to two years. As explained in court, the presidium excluded Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism) from the charges.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

A Radio Liberty correspondent worked on Manezhnaya Square, where football fans who came from a rally in memory of the murdered Yegor Sviridov staged a pogrom. Traffic on Mokhovaya Street was completely blocked. Reports that there is a battle between riot police and an aggressive crowd have not been confirmed. However, the crowd went down to the subway, where they began to attack citizens with Caucasian appearance.

Riot police pushed the fans gathered near the Manege exhibition hall to the roof of the underground shopping complex. Several people were detained

There were casualties among the fans

The Christmas tree installed in the square was half destroyed

Fans barricaded themselves on the roof of a shopping complex

Shouting nationalist slogans, including obscene ones

The confrontation lasted about an hour

Firecrackers, firecrackers and ice were thrown at the riot police

Smoke screen

Teenagers predominated among those gathered on Manezhnaya Square

Fans leaving Manezhnaya Square chanted nationalist slogans in the metro.

The crowd that descended into the Okhotny Ryad metro station began to attack citizens with Caucasian appearance who were exiting the arriving trains at the station. On the way, the lamp on the escalator was broken. The police are not trying to detain anyone, currently her efforts are aimed at protecting people from the riotous crowd, which shouts “Only Russians - only victory!”

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Shouting nationalist slogans, including obscene ones, the crowd descends into the subway. Traffic on Mokhovaya Street has still not been restored, although at the moment there are no people on the roadway - it is blocked by the police.

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On the roof shopping center"Manege" somehow two people ended up in the middle of the crowd Caucasian appearance, who were caught by the crowd and severely beaten. At the moment, heavily bloodied, they lie in the snow. An ambulance was called.

The head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, has arrived at Manezhnaya Square and is currently negotiating with representatives of the football fan movement. They demand an investigation into the murder of Yegor Sviridov. Vladimir Kolokoltsev asks for time to figure everything out. Slowly the crowd began to disperse. At the moment, no more than 300 people remain on the square.

Riot police move further away from the crowd rioting on the roof of the shopping center. A few minutes ago it seemed that there would be an assault; riot police managed to get closer to the crowd, but in response, empty glass bottles were thrown at them. The crowd provokes the riot police to attack, shouting “Come on, come on!” Smoke bombs burning and people set on fire plastic bottles, which cover everything around with black smoke.

Those who reached Manezhnaya Square from the north of Moscow - from the Vodny Stadion metro station, where people were walking with flowers and candles to honor the memory of Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov - have now already managed to block Mokhovaya Street in the area Exhibition complex Big Manezh. There are about 1,000 people on the roof of the Manege shopping center. They chant: “OMON is a traitor to the Russian people!”, “Russia is not the Caucasus, the Caucasus is not Russia,” “Russia is for Russians, Moscow is for Muscovites.” There is about 50 meters between the chain of riot police and those gathered on the roof of the shopping center.

The total number of football fans in the center of Moscow is about 3,000 people. They destroyed a huge christmas tree, installed in the square and began to throw toys torn from it at the riot police. From time to time, rockets fly into the air, and explosions are heard, apparently from firecrackers. Everything around is cordoned off by the police, total number There are about 500 guards of order. Over the loudspeaker they urge those gathered not to succumb to provocations and promise that the instigators of the pogroms will be punished. Riot police force fans towards the metro, and in response, ice and firecrackers are thrown at them.

Meanwhile, reinforcements arrive, soldiers of the internal troops with large shields surround the Kremlin in the Alexander Garden. It is obvious that the fans who arrived at Manezhnaya Square are very well organized. A man in a mask and with a megaphone came out of the crowd and demanded two colonels to negotiate, to whom the fans were ready to convey their demands. One of them is to bring Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to the square. The aggressive attitude of the fans has already been felt by journalists who are bombarded with flares and ice.

On Saturday, December 11, at 15:00 Moscow time, about 5 thousand representatives of nationalist groups and football fans staged a rally and mass pogroms on Manezhnaya Square

Daniil Trabun December 11, 2010
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On Saturday, December 11, at 15:00 Moscow time, several thousand representatives of nationalist groups and football fans staged a rally and mass pogroms on Manezhnaya Square. The rally participants spoke out against “ethnocrime.” Earlier, at 12:00, protesters marched along Kronstadt Boulevard to honor the memory of FC Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov, who died from a shot in the head in a fight with Dagestanis on the night from Sunday to Monday.

12:00. Rally on Kronstadt Boulevard

The rally on Kronstadt Boulevard passed without consequences. Several hundred (according to some sources about a thousand) people walked silently without placards, with flowers and candles. Riot police arrived at the boulevard, and the surrounding shops, cafes and restaurants were closed from the beginning to the end of the action.

15:00. Rally on Manezhnaya Square

After the march, fans went to a rally on Manezhnaya Square, which later turned into riots. According to various estimates, at 15:00 Moscow time, from five to seven thousand protesters gathered on Manezhnaya Square, they chanted “Russians, forward”, “Your children will answer for murder”, “Moscow is not the Caucasus”, “Zig-zag”, burned fireworks and firecrackers exploded.

Near the “Alexandrovsky Garden” and along the entire perimeter of Manezhnaya Square, clashes took place with riot police; bottles and iron bars of metal fences were flying towards the riot police; riot police officers responded harshly; fire extinguishers were visible in the hands of several officers. According to unofficial data, nine riot police were taken away by ambulance. Apparently, the clashes began when fans tried to break into Mokhovaya Street in order to block it. Tear gas was used. Several trucks of internal troops arrived to help the riot police. The situation got out of control of the authorities - in addition to the injured riot police, fans brutally beat five Caucasians who found themselves in the square.

16:00. Negotiations between protesters and authorities

At 16:00, the head of the Moscow riot police and the head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, came out to the protesters, whose numbers had increased. Kolokoltsev promised that the investigation into the murder of Yegor Sviridov would be completed and asked the crowd to disperse. He was unable to give an exact answer to a number of questions from the protesters: “Who will be responsible for negligence in the investigation of the murders of Yuri Volkov and other fans?”, “Why were the killers of Yegor Sviridov released after being detained?” In response, shouts of “Pizdoball” were heard from the crowd, however, according to media reports, the rally participants promised to leave Manezhnaya Square. Reports from the scene, on the contrary, said that the situation had become tense - there had been a new surge of unrest. In total, 65 people were detained on Manezhnaya Square, and 19 protesters were hospitalized. According to unofficial data, one person died, but the Central Internal Affairs Directorate denies the report of the death of a protest participant. The protest lasted about three hours.

End of the rally, riots in the subway

On the way to the metro, protesters beat police officers and passers-by. Ambulances arrived at the entrance to the metro to provide first aid to citizens. medical care. The entrance to the station was blocked by riot police - they were allowed into the lobby one at a time. In the metro, the rally participants dragged people of non-Slavic appearance from the cars, destroyed the Okhotny Ryad station, and broke the windows of several metro cars. Internal troops, riot police and police moved to the Pushkinskaya and Mayakovskaya metro stations, and underground all Sokolnicheskaya “red” line trains were accompanied by police detachments.

About the instigators of the riots on Manezhnaya Square

After the rally, information appeared that the riots on Manezhnaya Square were provoked by members of radical nationalist groups. In particular, before and after the start of the rally, representatives of fan organizations stated that they had nothing to do with the action on Manezhnaya Square - a statement was published on the Fratria website: “... we are forced to once again clarify our position. The Fratria movement is against any actions that violate the legislation of the Russian Federation. We are for the triumph of Law and Justice. We demand that the perpetrators receive the deserved punishment in accordance with the Laws of Our Country.” Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev also confirmed that the riots were initiated not by football fans, but by nationalist provocateurs. This version was also confirmed by Alexander Bogomolov on the GZT.Ru website in the article “The massacre at Manezhnaya was carried out by “dwarfs”.” In turn, the leader of the nationalist movement " Slavic power» Dmitry Demushkin rejected the accusations against the nationalists.

It is worth noting that the rally also took place in St. Petersburg. Fans of Zenit and Spartak, who had temporarily forgotten about the enmity, blocked Zagorodny Avenue. The column reached Gostiny Dvor and began to disperse. The police could not cope with the fans, as law enforcement vehicles were stuck in traffic jams - two days of snowfall worsened traffic St. Petersburg.

Header photo: Almany; Sources of information: Interfax.Ru, Lenta.Ru, Gazeta.Ru,