People want Russia to not drown in lawlessness and mayhem.

  The arrests in Moscow targeted Lyubov Sobol, a 31-year-old lawyer who works for Russia’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, an independent group led by Aleksei A. Navalny, another anti-corruption campaigner; Nikolai Lyaskin; and Ilya Azar, a journalist with Novaya Gazeta, an independent daily newspaper, and a local councilor.

  Ms. Sobol, the most prominent of the activists known to have been picked up on Monday, has been one of the main public faces of a recent wave of protests, including a peaceful march attended by several thousand people that she led on Saturday through the center of Moscow.  Released from provisional arrest after midnight pending a court hearing, Ms. Sobol said on her Twitter account after her release that she had been picked up by police officers as she was leaving a store and accused of taking part in an illegal gathering….

  Accusing Moscow’s mayor, Sergei S. Sobyanin, of “trying to frighten me with night arrests,” she said,  “I am not afraid and will continue to work against corrupt officials, falsifiers and scoundrels.”

  Riot police officers, who cracked down hard on previous protests and detained more than 2,000 people, let Ms. Sobol’s march on Saturday proceed unmolested, raising hopes that the Kremlin might be retreating from its often violent stand against organized displays of public dissent….

 

  Ms. Sobol, who last week was sprayed with black slime near her Moscow apartment by an unidentified assailant, has infuriated the authorities by refusing to bow to a campaign of intimidation by the security forces and nominally independent vigilantes against herself and her family.

  As the mother of a 5-year-old daughter she cannot be sentenced to jail under Russian law, which bars the imprisonment of mothers with children under the age of 14.  But she has been repeatedly fined and taken in for lengthy questioning.        https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/world/europe/russia-moscow-opposition-lyubov-sobol.html

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  "People of different ages have come out because everyone wants justice.  They want Russia to be free and happy and to not drown in lawlessness and mayhem.  We demand this and we will not back down," Sobol told reporters….

  Several opposition leaders were detained ahead of the August 31 event, including opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who has struggled to register for the election.  He was detained on August 28 immediately after he completed a fourth 10-day jail term on similar charges of attending unauthorized rallies.     https://www.rferl.org/a/two-more-opposition-activists-detained-over-august-31-moscow-rally/30144482.html

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Mother Russia statue at Volgograd, erected 1967     http://www.lazerhorse.org/2015/11/18/the-motherland-calls-one-huge-stone-russian-lady/#
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-Pyotr and Yelena Khomsky

   another Moscow court in the Nikulinsky district, rejected the district prosecutor's move to deprive another couple, Pyotr and Yelena Khomsky, of their parental rights and ruled that their three daughters must stay with them.

The couple and the three girls -- aged 3 months, 3 years, and 10 years -- were shown on state television channels during the August 3 rally.

  Pyotr Khomsky was described as "a professional provocateur" and "a bodyguard of Aleksei Navalny," the Russian opposition politician and vocal Kremlin critic.

The cases against the two couples sparked harsh criticism among ordinary Muscovites and human rights organizations across Russia.   https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-couples-keep-children-despite-attending-rally-with-them/30144544.html