Pensioner From Belarus Tossed Bottle With Paint At Lenin’s Mausoleum

An elderly migrant from Belarus was detained the day before in Red Square in Moscow after he tossed a bottle with pain into Lenin’s mausoleum.

Interfax was informed about that by a source in law-enforcing agencies.

As said by him, on Sunday at about 2 p.m. an unknown, crossing Red Square, grasped a glass 0.5 litre bottle out of a packet and tossed it in the direction of the Mausoleum. As a result, the entrance to the building was smeared green on the left side.

The man was immediately detained and taken to the police department, where it turned out that he was a 78-year-old native of Belarus living in Moscow. He refused to explain his act, and demanded to invite journalists and representatives of the presidential administration, the interlocutor of the agency said.

He added that emergency doctors hospitalized the man into one of the mental hospitals of the capital of Russia.

According to the preliminary information, the man had legal proceedings with his property management company for many years, he loses all lawsuits, which urged him to commit that deed, the source said.

He specified that the man challenged the denial of the authorities to compensate expenses for water meters installation, as well as high costs of housing and utilities services.

The effects of the incident were eliminated within half an hour, the interlocutor of Interfax added.