Day: April 2, 2017

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) acts to remove the body of Vladimir Lenin from the Mausoleum. This was stated by the Chairman of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk in the program “Church and world” on TV channel “Russia 24”. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church stressed that during the October revolution, “was the victim, and were the executioners”. “The names of the executioners, it is impossible to name the streets and squares, the names of the terrorists and revolutionaries should not perpetuate (…), the mummified bodies of these people must not be exposed for everyone to see,” said he. At the same time, the decision about the burial of Lenin’s body in Russia “were late at a quarter of a century,” said the Metropolitan, “That’s when the monument to Dzerzhinsky square, Dzerzhinsk cleaned, that’s when I had to take the

Roman Shingarkin (center) Among those detained April 2, near the Manege square in Moscow was the 17-year-old high school student Roman Shingarkin, the son of former state Duma Deputy from the LDPR faction Maxim Shingarkin. About it on Twitter, told the capital the correspondent of “Russian service Bi-bi-si”, Sarah Rainsford. According to TASS, the Manege square was arrested at least seven people attempting to take part in an unsanctioned rally. Taken to the nearby parked police bus. In the Moscow cupola MIA said only about trying to hold a rally near the triumphal square. For violations of public order was detained 29 people. Shingarkin, Jr. was involved in an inconsistent rally against corruption held on 26 March in Central Moscow. This information he confirmed in an interview with Reuters. During the campaign, the teenager climbed on a lamppost on Pushkin square, as below, according to him, nothing was visible. Some

In the Russian interior Ministry said the number of detained participants of the unauthorized shares, held on Sunday, 2 April, in various cities of the country. This was reported on the website of the Department. So, in Moscow during uncoordinated actions in the area of triumph square detained 31 people. They were taken to police units in respect of them have made administrative reports for violation of public order. As noted, overlapping squares or streets in the city were not carried out. In addition, one of the participants in the inconsistent events were detained in St. Petersburg. It is also reported that the action with the participation of 20 people were held in Ryazan and Ivanovo, 13 took to the streets in Yakutsk, 40 — in Barnaul. Among the most numerous — Novosibirsk (400 people), Samara — 650 participants, Astrakhan (250). In these settlements of violations of the order was