Activists in Novosibirsk and Moscow have begun a hunger strike against a bill allowing regions to revoke the status of monuments, resulting in the detention of one of the activists.

Activists in Novosibirsk and Moscow have begun a hunger strike against a bill allowing regions to revoke the status of monuments, resulting in the detention of one of the activists.

@ostorozhno_novosti 25 Jul 2026, 17:48

In Moscow, Natalia Shamina, head of the Novosibirsk branch of VOOPIK, was detained by police during her hunger strike at the monument to Cyril and Methodius, which she declared in protest against a bill transferring the right to exclude cultural heritage sites from the register to the regions.

@ovdinfolive 25 Jul 2026, 16:43