VLADIVOSTOK, Aug 31Beating drums during a football match is not a violation of public order, said a representative of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Primorsky Krai. Earlier, a video of a football match was circulated on social networks and Telegram channels, where one of the residents came to the stadium because of «chants» and a fight drums of fans of the local team. The woman emotionally reacted to the noise, shouting to the fans that it interfered with rest after work, and that she had a small child at home. It was reported that fans of the former Luch team from Vladivostok were drumming in the video. «We confirm: drumming during a football match is not a violation of public order,» a representative of the department told the agency. ), who is in charge of the Yunost stadium in Vladivostok, the video was shot during the match of the pupils of the Luch club at the regional championship. «We are already tired of talking with them, we meet with these fans before each game … We explain that (stadium ) in a residential area, that you don’t have to shout loudly, beat drums … Now they don’t even burn flares, they used to light flares, throw them, ”said Andrey Fedyakin, instructor, methodologist of the regional sports school of the Olympic reserve, adding that there is no ban to come to the stadium with drums. According to him, during the coronavirus pandemic, when games were played in front of empty stands, these fans still came to the stadium. “They were standing up there, on the road… and yelling and beating drums. And now we have no right not to let them (to the stadium),» the source said. Fedyakin also specified that police are present at all matches and representatives of the security agency. “The police come to us. We hire security guards for every match of the regional championship, but they do not have the right to react to something like this (drums, screams — ed.), they can only stop fights. We have a law on silence from eleven in the evening operates, and all matches are held at six in the evening,» he said.
