In Chelyabinsk, a large city in the Ural region, on 19 September law enforcement officers detained 19-year-old Yabloko party member Vladimir Yuzhakov after he wrote “Make love not war” and “Peace to the world!” on the pavement near polling stations. According to his wife, at the police station Yuzhakov was made to write an explanation, his phone was confiscated and he was threatened with deportation, but no protocol was drawn up. Source: 7×7—Horizontal Russia
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Law enforcement officers in Chelyabinsk detained a member of the Yabloko party who wrote “Peace to the world” on the pavement.
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