Arsenal tower
The military commandant of the Moscow Kremlin Sergey Khlebnikov said that the feminists who placed the banner on the Corner Arsenal tower, is a photo montage. This opinion he Thursday, March 9, was expressed on air of radio station “Echo of Moscow”.
“There is no banner on the tower was not a photo montage. It is on the conscience of those people who made it. Everything else in that picture is the truth,” said Khlebnikov.
He also added that the tower is protected with alarms and video surveillance, and other ways that he is not entitled to voice. According to the military commandant, stationed inside the object unit of the presidential regiment, in connection with which passage there, as in any military unit, is limited.
“The man who will try to get there, I will say that the passage is closed for performance reasons, but if he won’t listen, it will be forced to transmit to the police Department, as it was with those girls,” said Khlebnikov, adding that you can climb the tower impossible.
Earlier, on 9 March, the Deputy head of the press center of the Federal security service (FSS) Denis Simonov said that during the campaign of feminists in the Kremlin penetration on protected objects was not. On specifying question of the correspondent “Moscow speaking” whether the Corner Arsenal tower in the number of protected, he assured that there were not extraneous.
Action on red square was held on March 8. It was reported that two of the participants managed to climb the wall of the Kremlin from the Alexander garden and post there banner “200 years men in power. Down!” After that, the girls lit smoke bombs. Two feminists with the flares supposedly hung on the Corner Arsenalnaya tower poster “the national idea — feminism”. Other participants of the action held posters with inscriptions “We are the majority” and “a Woman for President.”
After that seven women were taken to the police Department where they were released after preventive conversation.