Law enforcement officers detained members of the Pussy Riot group Maria Alekhina and Margarita Flores in Moscow. They were stopped near the Nakhimovsky Prospekt metro station. Alekhina complained about the rude actions of the police. Alekhina's friend Olga Shalina, in an interview with the Daily Storm, called the detention a prevention of political activism.
“Now we are in the Department of Internal Affairs for the Akademichesky District. We were detained by about ten people and four "eshniks" - Alekhine told the Daily Storm. - Roughly enough they detained, pushed into a minibus, as it is now fashionable, without identification marks. Now they will draw up a protocol under 3.18 of the Administrative Code [Moscow city] , like we were without masks. But we had masks! "
“We just saw the girls on the street and started firing after them and detained them, no matter what happened, - noted Shalina. - Prevention of political activists. They were detained at the exit from the grocery store.
On October 7, members of the Pussy Riot group hung LGBT flags on the buildings of the FSB in Lubyanka, the presidential administration, and the Supreme Court. The participants in the flash mob then explained their choice by the fact that these are "the main symbols of Russian statehood." On the same day, several protesters were detained by law enforcement officers.
Two days after the rally, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested a member of the Pussy Riot group Alexander Sofeyev for 30 days. He was accused of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event. One of the protesters on October 7, speaking with the Daily Storm, noted that the group members set the task of covering the problem of sex minorities in Russia as their main goal.
