On February 27, the police announced the arrest of teenagers who planned to arrange mass fights in Kharkov and Kyiv. The media also reported that similar brawls were planned in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lvov and Zhitomir.. The planned riots are associated with representatives of the PMC Redan subculture. It originated in Russia, but in recent days it has also reached our country..

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How it all started.

On February 24-26, several teenagers were detained in Russia, who staged mass fights in shopping centers. According to Meduza, 350 people were detained in Moscow alone, 319 of them were minors..

According to Russian media, about 20 teenagers beat a peer for his appearance and sprayed him in the face with pepper spray. The incident occurred on February 23, when four people were detained, including one of the Redan leaders.

Detentions also took place in St. Petersburg, Kursk, Novosibirsk and Kazan. Mass fights did not seem to have happened here, but according to Russian law enforcement officers, they were planned.

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According to Hromadske, the name of the Redan PMC subculture is associated with the Japanese comics Hunter x Hunter, one of the main characters of which is Genya Redan. He is the leader of the Spider Gang.. It seems that it is their symbolism that is copied by teenagers who wear jackets and other clothes with the image of a spider..

The basis of culture is " The Redan representatives themselves say that their movement has been brewing for a long time, the reason for its appearance was the attacks of the “officers” on the “redans”.

" One of these reasons may be the appearance of someone, especially if he is informal..

That is, according to teenagers, the current riots are due to the fact that the informals began to organize themselves due to the constant attacks of the gopniks, and decided to fight back.

What does PMC have to do with it.

In our minds, this abbreviation does not evoke any good associations, since it is associated with private military companies.. One of which, PMC "

But representatives of PMC "

Why PMC "

It is worth noting that mass fights in our country have not yet been recorded.. Law enforcement officers were able to detain those who intended to participate in them before the fights. Although social networks are circulating videos in which teenagers catch up with or run away from the crowd during a mass brawl. However, the subculture has become popular in Ukraine as well..

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Japanese teacher and video blogger Boris Moroz considers this to be natural. He notes that the Redan participants created a revolutionary ideology in Russia, which is based on the fact that “informal people who received lyuli from gopniks and ultras can prescribe lyuli to anyone”. Ukrainian teenagers also liked this idea..

“This is natural, because the Ukrainian anime community has not yet created its own ideology, which would also suggest something cool in the eyes of teenagers. The Ukrainian anime community has been focusing only on the war for a year now. This is where the Russian group “Redan” appears and offers an idea that helps to plunge into a romantic pre-war life with a showdown between “ofniks” and “nefors” in the aesthetics of anime. The choice of a 14-year-old man from Frankivsk or Poltava is understandable here,” says Moroz.

Russian IPSO.

The police believe that the distribution of " So, on February 27 in Kharkiv, the police detained 257 people, of which only 30 were adults..

After that, the Head of the National Police Department of the Kharkiv region Volodymyr Timoshko wrote: “According to the plan of the FSB of the non-state, which through manipulation and deceit “gathered” all these people into groups, they had to arrange a mass brawl in the city center so that the TV of the non-state could enjoy it. Many seized gas cans, knives, brass knuckles! And this is in our long-suffering, indestructible city!

According to Radio Liberty, the police blocked 18 channels and groups of the " They also said that 700 more people were invited to the police..

Law enforcers called it an attempt by Russian propagandists to conduct another information and psychological operation and draw teenagers into illegal activities.. The police report does not mention the name of the movement, but apparently, it is about the so-called Redan PMC.

Members of the movement deny such allegations.. They claim that “no one purposefully offered anything to anyone,” and also insist that the Russian authorities are also fighting the Redanovites..