Putin protester beaten and threatened by Moscow police
A resident of Moscow came to the Solovetsky Stone with a poster reading, "Putin's place is in prison." The man was beaten by the police, who threatened to send him to war.
Police in Moscow detained Vladislav Malakhov, who on Tuesday, 4 June, went on a picket at the Solovetsky Stone with a poster reading "Putin's place is in prison." This information was reported by the independent Russian portal Meduza, which cited the detainee's wife.
According to Malakhov himself, after the arrest, the police forcefully dragged him into a police van, where they began kicking, trampling, and beating him.
According to him, the police threatened to send him to war. Malakhov was threatened with a Taser and forced to unlock his phone. After copying the data, the police returned his device.
The police also forced the detainee to record a video message, in which he stated that he had no complaints against the police.
Anniversary of Navalny's death. Protests in many cities
On 4 June, the birthday of Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian colony, in various cities across Russia, the police detained people who were bringing flowers to the monuments of victims of political repression.
According to OVD-Info, arrests occurred in Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Samara, and Ufa. In Moscow, two women were detained who came to the Borisov Cemetery, where Navalny is buried.
Special forces also disrupted an evening dedicated to Navalny's memory, whose participants were watching a broadcast of the concert "Hello, this is Navalny" in Berlin.
