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“You shall not pass!” chanted the shrieking women as the OMON riot police tried to push at least 20 women out of the way of a van full of detainees.

The women were shrieking, an otherworldly sound that is not screaming. They showed no fear as the OMON loomed over them. But the shrieking that has become part of the standard armoury in the weekly female-only protests every Saturday clearly unnerve the OMON, who don't know how to deal with the women.

Again the OMON tried to shove the women out of the way of the van that was trying to leave with its cargo of protestors. The women had bound themselves into a block with tightly linked arms and hugging each other to prevent the OMON from breaking up the body of women blocking the road. As the OMON pushed against the women hands immediately shot out, grasping at their masks, trying to rip them from the faces of the balaclava-wearing offices.

This is another tactic that has appeared in on the last week: unmask the OMON and then post their identity and their crimes online. And it has proven to be extremely effective and once the mask is off the officers tend to turn tail and flee. The OMON backed off, defeated. The women were not going to be moved. “You will not pass!” they began to chant in unison.