At the Levashov Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, during an event reading the names of the repressed, police detained 78-year-old Mikhail Pushnitsky, who had a yellow-blue badge on his clothing.
According to a SOTAvision* correspondent, the on-duty police officers demanded he remove it, Pushnitsky refused. Then he was put in a police car and taken to police station No. 49 "for verification." There, an administrative protocol was drawn up against him for "discrediting" the army.
Mikhail Pushnitsky was a member of the search group that in 2002 discovered the burial sites of victims of the 1920-1930s repressions at the Rzhevsky artillery range.
In 2008, at the Koyrankangas site, where the remains of residents of the former Finnish villages of Kiurumäki, Kongolovo, and Lepsari are located, a memorial cross was erected at Pushnitsky's personal expense.
* Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.
Photo: SOTAvision