Unicorn, the press made it public where they were staying and as it was just near the Red Square everybody, press, fans and non fans were there night and day, I passed by several times and I had a very disappointing feeling that they were cornered inside the hotel, now I learn that people were bothering them there as well.
And not only that, some people try to justify the presence of thousands of police or soldiers, militia, some people told me in the stadium, there is always somebody who wants to justify the unjustifiable, those officers were controlling and cutting down the civil rights of everybody in the concert, and I say "everybody" because I believe it. They didn't allow anybody to move or dance in the part I was, just because an armed boy dressed like a soldier and barely in his twenties didn't want us to, I had to go round the whole stadium because I couldn't cross a line of officers separating two gates, we had to go into the underground walking through a corridor of soldiers, very similar to Schindler List images, the volunteers from Anmisty International, Greenpeace and ONE were arrested and their publicity declared forbidden propaganda. Of course there are criminals in every country, of course security is needed in a mass event like this, but it is always carried out by civil personel, and they aren't armed as those in Moscow.
The worst thing for me is to see how Russians think it is normal and how easily people here want to find reasons for it.
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