On the evening of December 2, police disrupted the “Limonov Readings” at the St. Petersburg club “Ionoteka,” reported an MR7 correspondent. Four participants, as the telegram channel of the National Bolsheviks “National Human Rights Protection” clarifies, were left overnight at the police department.
As MR7 writes, the security forces explained that the reason for their visit was a noise complaint. They stopped the performance and checked the documents of those gathered. As a result, Andrei Pesotsky, the leader of the readings and a member of the unregistered “Other Russia” party, as well as event participants Kirill Travkin, Stanislav Bubenchikov and Kristina Metkina were detained. In addition, according to MR7, a security guard and one of the bar employees were taken to the police department.
Pesotsky, Travkin, Bubenchikov and Metkina were left in the department overnight, they are going to draw up reports of petty hooliganism against them (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code).
The event was dedicated to the launch of the Limonka newspaper, which was founded by Eduard Limonov on November 28, 1994. In 2002, the Khamovnichesky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow banned the publication of the newspaper, deciding that its materials were aimed at inciting social intolerance and discord, calling for the seizure of power and promoting war.
As MR7 notes, most of the participants in the event in St. Petersburg are those who returned from the war in Ukraine, as well as activists who bring humanitarian aid to the front for the Russian military. Today the Limonov Readings should take place in Moscow.