25 Detained in Moscow for Attending Lecture on Ukraine's Maidan Movement
About 25 people have been detained in Moscow today, December 2, at a lecture on Ukraine's Maidan protest movement, OVDinfo.org, the police monitoring group reported. All the detainees are currently held at the Danilovsky police station.
Activists from the National Liberation Movement (NOD), whose leader Yevgeny Fyodorov is an influential member of the State Duma, came to picket the lecturing and kept trying to hand cookies to people as they arrived. The cookies are a frequent propaganda meme based on a demonstrative delivery of pastries last year on Maidan Square in Kiev by US Deputy Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland. The implication is that people interested in learning about Maidan are some sort of "foreign agents" or "fifth columnists."
The picketers also told the lecture-goers that they were "LGBT" or "Right Sector," an ultranationalist Ukrainian group.
The Free School of Resistance has given a number of lectures on the situation in Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, and other places of armed conflict. The event today included a telebridge to Kiev where there was a discussion of experience in organizing a resistance, grani.ru reported. Other recent topics include "How to Preserve Inner Freedom in the Conditions of Modern Russia"; "Buddhism in Russia"; "Society and Government in Russia from the 17th-19th Centuries"; "Results of the Moscow City Duma 2014 Elections" and "The Political Situation in Turkey."
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