In Moscow, at the Solovetsky stone, they honored the memory of the victims of the repression. These are the first demonstrations after the memorial was banned. On October 29, the day when the "Return of the Names" action traditionally took place, people came to the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka to honor the memory of the victims of political repression. These are the first actions of this kind since the Supreme Court declared the memorial "extreme" in April. Riot police, a paddy cart and "E" center workers were at the memorial, but the police did not touch the people laying flowers, eyewitnesses reported. Those who came read the names of the repressed. Among those present was the former Chairman of the Memorial Council, Jan Rahinski. EU ambassador Melanie Mard laid flowers on the stone along with ambassadors of EU countries and "similar countries". Among the diplomats there were representatives of Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and France. No one came from the American Embassy this year. In the morning, Deputy State Duma Andrei Lugovoy arrived at the stone. He wanted to present the British ambassador Nigel Casey with a statuette of an Indian sepoy fired from a cannon, "based" on a painting by Vershchagin. He did not wait for the ambassador and left without leaving flowers. Diplomats usually arrive at the stone by noon. On Krasnoprodnaya Street, at houses 22-24, where the employees of the People's Commissariat of Railways lived, volunteers erected 15 "last address" signs. Six more signs were placed on Pokrovsky Boulevard, 14/5, in the former home of the Council of People's Commissars. Signs, even those approved by the authorities, are regularly destroyed. In St. Petersburg, for the second year in a row, the authorities did not agree on the name calling in the city center. The action "I want to call everyone by name... It will be held again only at the cemetery in memory of Levshovsky on October 30. "Returning Names" took place in more than 100 cities around the world, in person and online. In Graz they read letters from the political prisoners Ilya Shakursky and Alexander Skovov, in Strasbourg they remembered Alexander Kovin and Roman Sidorkin who died in custody, in Dresden they talked about Varlem Shlamov.

In Moscow, at the Solovetsky stone, they honored the memory of the victims of the repression. These are the first demonstrations after the memorial was banned. On October 29, the day when the "Return of the Names" action traditionally took place, people came to the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka to honor the memory of the victims of political repression. These are the first actions of this kind since the Supreme Court declared the memorial "extreme" in April. Riot police, a paddy cart and "E" center workers were at the memorial, but the police did not touch the people laying flowers, eyewitnesses reported. Those who came read the names of the repressed. Among those present was the former Chairman of the Memorial Council, Jan Rahinski. EU ambassador Melanie Mard laid flowers on the stone along with ambassadors of EU countries and "similar countries". Among the diplomats there were representatives of Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and France. No one came from the American Embassy this year. In the morning, Deputy State Duma Andrei Lugovoy arrived at the stone. He wanted to present the British ambassador Nigel Casey with a statuette of an Indian sepoy fired from a cannon, "based" on a painting by Vershchagin. He did not wait for the ambassador and left without leaving flowers. Diplomats usually arrive at the stone by noon. On Krasnoprodnaya Street, at houses 22-24, where the employees of the People's Commissariat of Railways lived, volunteers erected 15 "last address" signs. Six more signs were placed on Pokrovsky Boulevard, 14/5, in the former home of the Council of People's Commissars. Signs, even those approved by the authorities, are regularly destroyed. In St. Petersburg, for the second year in a row, the authorities did not agree on the name calling in the city center. The action "I want to call everyone by name... It will be held again only at the cemetery in memory of Levshovsky on October 30. "Returning Names" took place in more than 100 cities around the world, in person and online. In Graz they read letters from the political prisoners Ilya Shakursky and Alexander Skovov, in Strasbourg they remembered Alexander Kovin and Roman Sidorkin who died in custody, in Dresden they talked about Varlem Shlamov.