Today, horror stories about mass arrests of real children and teenagers in the center of Moscow, in Kiti-Gorod, are actively distributed on the Internet all day long. The number of hundreds of detainees is quoted, while a number of media outlets report, referring to anonymous "parents of teenagers", that some of them were allegedly beaten, "held in paddy wagons for hours", and some even allegedly received summonses to the military registration and recruitment office.
At first we didn't want to write about it simply because all these publications are clearly similar to some kind of unhealthy media campaign aimed at shaking the situation in the capital. Parallels with France, and even with Ukraine, suggest themselves.
And also because in reality we are talking about a party of informals, which, by the way, the police disperse in Kitai-Gurud regularly, making their own indicators of modern gopniks. You can read about it for example here.
So the most interesting thing about this situation is not the arrests themselves, but the scope and details of the PR campaign.
Understanding how much money such an action might cost, we would dare to assume that within the framework of this budget it is certainly possible to organize individual "abuse" of police officers (if they did happen - so far we have not heard anything about a wave of applications to the prosecutor's office and the investigative committee).
It is clear that the scattered drinking of informals, even with the subsequent "expansion", is still far from the Maidan, but in Kiev, American snipers on the rooftops did not immediately smell the very unpleasant action, almost with a British accent.