Youth News, May 10-16
The main topic this week was the open-air camp arranged in downtown Moscow by fair elections supporters. After Alexey Navalny and Sergei Udaltsovwere arrested for 15 days, Ilya Yashin was left to lead the protest movement. The first camp was set up on Clean Ponds, next to the monument to Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev. The magazine Big City and the project Open Action published related videos with the activists. On May 16 the camp was dismantled by court order. The LiveJournal blogger Drugoi posted an entry concerning his vision of the Clean Ponds camp, dubbed OccupyAbai. The protesters moved to the metro station Barrikadnaya, where they were pressed by the police again. Newsru.com provides details about the “busts”. The metropolitan municipality invites young people to move to Gorky Park, where, by some accounts of the media, it is planned to arrange an analogue of Hyde Park.
The main topic this week was the open-air camp arranged in downtown Moscow by fair elections supporters. After Alexey Navalny and Sergei Udaltsovwere arrested for 15 days, Ilya Yashin was left to lead the protest movement. The first camp was set up on Clean Ponds, next to the monument to Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev. The magazine Big City and the project Open Action published related videos with the activists. On May 16 the camp was dismantled by court order. The LiveJournal blogger Drugoi posted an entry concerning his vision of the Clean Ponds camp, dubbed OccupyAbai. The protesters moved to the metro station Barrikadnaya, where they were pressed by the police again. Newsru.com provides details about the “busts”. The metropolitan municipality invites young people to move to Gorky Park, where, by some accounts of the media, it is planned to arrange an analogue of Hyde Park.
The activist Maksim Kats tells in his blog how he arranged an assistance service for May 7 detainees. He elaborates on each of the organizational aspects – how decisions were made, what resources were used, whose work was paid and whose was volunteering. The main point that caused much debate in the comments concerned the payment for the lawyers' work. But the service was effective precisely because Maksim Kats decided to pay the lawyers.
Head of Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko is about to launch a new project – young people's political party "Smart Russia". Vasily's spokeswoman, Kristina Potupchik, strenuously denies the rumors. Meanwhile, Openspace.ru published Ms. Potupchik's media portrait authored by Maksim Artem'yev.
The magazine Russian Reporter set out to find out why Russian clothing stores have such a predictable, uninteresting choice and why the prices are so high. To find out, a reporter interviewed buyers – people who choose and purchase clothes for the stores abroad in bulk. The findings have turned out disappointing: it seems that the customers themselves are to blame because they do not want anything bright, trendy or creative.
For two years, the photographer Alex Harris has been trying to find anything that could distract his son from the handheld electronic videogame device Gameboy. Unfortunately, this experiment ended in complete failure. The project can be viewed here.