"Pynya, go away!" reads this placard on Ustinsky Bridge. Source: GradusTV.
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Fifteen days in jail for “Pynya” (a nickname for Putin). Traffic police stopped a car in which Olga Romanova and Andrei Titkov, Moscow activists of the New Opposition political movement, were travelling. They were detained for a protest with a mannequin hung on the Ustinsky Bridge along with a placard that read “Go away, Pynya”. The next day Titkov was jailed for 15 days on the grounds that this protest had created a traffic disturbance. Romanova had been released before the court hearing. At the hearing in the case of Titkov, no one, not even his lawyer who was in the building, was allowed into the courtroom.
