Dmitry Markov took a photo of a law enforcement officer, who was sitting under a portrait of Vladimir Putin in camouflage and a mask, on…

Dmitry Markov took a photo of a law enforcement officer, who was sitting under a portrait of Vladimir Putin in camouflage and a mask, on February 2 at the Kosino-Ukhtomsky Police Department, where he had been taken after being detained near the Simonovsky Court (there was a trial on replacing Alexei Navalny's suspended sentence with jail time in the Yves Rocher case). It instantly became a symbol of the protests and an Internet meme, turned into dozens of doctored pics by netizens.

Dmitry Markov. Photo from the personal page on Facebook

The photographer announced the auction on the afternoon of February 6, it lasted about a day. The opening price of the photo was 10 thousand rubles. Markov promised to transfer the money from selling the photo to the OVD-Info and Apologia of Protest Public Organizations, which help detained protesters, in equal amounts.

This is not the first charity event of Dmitry Markov. He has also helped raise money for buying the equipment for the workshops of the Rostok (‘Sprout’) Charitable Foundation for Handicapped Orphans in Pskov Oblast.

Politician Alexei Navalny returned On January 23 and 31, as well as on February 2, numerous unagreed protests were held in support of Navalny in Russia, the police having detained more than 10 thousand people there.

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