The purpose of this action is an attempt to read out of the investigative insulator of Minsk five Moscow fans who were there as a result of a brawl that occurred on August 18 during a friendly match between the national teams of Belarus and Russia. A rally near the Belorussian Embassy was allowed by the authorities.

Russian fans demanded from Belarus the liberation of their comrades

Fans of Moscow football clubs CSKA,
Spartak, Dynamo and Torpedo held a protest promotion today
At the building of the Belarusian embassy in Moscow.

As reported
Mikhail representative representatives of army fans representative
Reservation, the purpose of the protest is the speedy release
From the Minsk investigative insulator of five Moscow
Fans, three of them CSKA fans and two are Spartaks.

They were detained on August 18 after the end of the friend
football match between the national teams of Belarus and Russia, which
Passed in Minsk.

The rally participants signed up today under the demand
free Russian citizens and objectively understand
what happened.

As Zabrodin noted, over the past one and a half months
The case of Russian fans never rose and
Russians are unaware of their
further fate.

Participants in the rally who gathered order
300-400 people signed an appeal addressed to the president
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko with a request to deal with
what happened.

The appeal was transferred to the ambassador of Belarus in Moscow.

Police officers noted that they expected from fans
any extreme actions, however, with the exception of
burned by the white-red flag of the National Belorussian Front,
No incidents were recorded.

According to Russian fans, the match should
was to symbolize the integration of Russia and Belarus not only on
political, but also at the sports level, however, as noted
Zabrodin, local law enforcement forces most likely thought
otherwise.

Otherwise than explaining that Russian fans,
whose about 1000 people arrived, placed in one sector with
representatives of the Belarusian National Front, which, as
It is known that he opposes the integration of the two countries and aggressively
React to Russian fans.

According to Robrodin, both
The parties exchanged offensive remarks for a long time,
However, later all this grew into a small brawl right on
stadium.

According to Mikhail Zabrodin, the Belarusian police are not
completely adequately reacted to this event – in passing against
Russian fans went batons and fists.

The Belarusian riot police arrested more than 100 people, among whom
Almost all were Russians.

60 of them were subjected to
administrative punishment and conducted in prison in Minsk from
3 to 15 days, and five Russians were arrested and they are now
It was charged with hooliganism and non -notification to the authorities.

how
noted by a representative of army fans, involuntarily
It seems that the police indulged in Belarusian nationalists.