When exiting the subway on the opposite side of the Pushkin monument from the passage to the boulevard, literally stepping onto the sidewalk, he was detained by two Rosgvardiya officers, who initially stood in a chain of six or eight people wearing helmets. They escorted me to the boulevard roadway not far from the McDonald's. When handing me over to the police, I asked: "Will there be photo and video materials on the fact of my detention?" To which I received an answer: "We will arrange everything." When passing with the "cosmonauts" - I have already pointed out that the Russian guardsmen had helmets on their heads, and later to the police - I introduced myself to them literally into the camera fixed on my chest: "I, Balabanov Viktor Vasilyevich, an actor who played 108 roles in theaters, (as far as I remember at that time, played:) 154 roles in films, television and video projects, the father of four children, the grandfather of six grandchildren, I live on a disabled pension. groups (as far as I remember at that time:) 19 thousand - the government is robbing us Russians!" After a while they put me in a passenger (!) police car and took me to the Tver police station on B. Dmitrovka, where I was presented with the protocol of my arrest, which stated that I was detained at an unauthorized picket!!! I understood and knew that it was a lie, a slander was written against me - I declared that I would not sign this lie. Then I was warned that my fingerprints and hands would be taken and photographed in order to add me to their catalog. Which was done! I was detained at the Tver police station for more than three hours, they offered to sign information about my rights, but I did not sign there either, they say, I know about them and claim that they have already been violated: they accuse me of something I did not commit. I used to stand with a banner saying "Putin must leave!" in 2010, and I was in the Reception Room of the President of the Russian Federation on 05.09.2017 demanding that Putin resign - you can listen to the audio recording.: https://www.victorbalabanov.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/posesenie_priemnoi_prezidenta_rf_05.09.17_putina_v_otstavkum.m4a
And later, at the congress of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, I was forced to nominate myself for the post of chairman of the Union of Cinematographers - they did not give me the opportunity to speak in the usual format - I voiced this demand from the rostrum of the congress on 11.12.2017 - there is a video of the entire plot with my speech: https://youtu.be/yrRMNvRDw_I?si=Uqhlwmn21VnX0T3k
And on 12/13/2021, at the next congress of the Union of Cinematographers, I voiced the phrase "Tyrants take advantage of the silence of good people!" and also proposed to adopt three resolutions for the congress of film workers to address the authorities of the country, where the first one is "On preventing the outbreak and waging of war with Ukraine..." at 3:46:06 seconds the beginning https://youtu.be/y_hHqYqZ__s The second is about the inadmissibility of closing Memorial, and the third is about the introduction of a new basic income for low-income Russians, so that part of the profits from the sale of natural resources will be credited to their personal accounts... If we adopt this project as a law, while allowing all citizens of the former USSR who have accepted Russian citizenship to receive these funds. although living in the former Soviet republics, in this way, through Attention, Care, and in fact through LOVE, it would be possible to "conquer" the entire former USSR without bombs, missiles, and weapons!
But I digress from my detentions - it seems to me very important that film creatives, and all Russian citizens ... should give a signal to the authorities about how they feel about what the authorities are doing or not doing!
As soon as I was released from the Tver police station, I called my wife that I had been released and I was going to go home, I walked to the nearest metro entrance at the monument to Pushkin A. S., began to go downstairs, as one of the two police officers stopped me, asked for my passport and escorted to the "avtozak", where they handed my passport to others police officers. When I said that I had just been released from the Tverskoy police station, neither the first two nor those who were at the car reacted in any way, except: "We'll figure it out!" They may have called the police station, but they were told that I had not signed anything, saying, "educate" him.… I again revealed to them and others who were in the car the living conditions of an ordinary artist, a citizen of the country, so that they would understand that they were serving the mafia, but they remained slaves to the mafia.… We were taken first to a new place. Peredelkino, but there were probably a lot of detainees there - we were transported to the Kuntsevo police station. It was stated in the protocol that I was detained at an unauthorized rally!.. I've never seen a rally in my life! I didn't see any crowds of people, but I understood that the authorities needed to "educate" citizens so that they would be uncomplaining... It's easier to manage poor, poor, weak-willed people - which I disagree with!!!