In Ukraine, supporters of the Russian movement “PVK Redan” are detained: what is known about him

In Ukraine, supporters of the Russian movement “PVK Redan” are detained: what is known about him



In some cities of Ukraine, street actions were held with the participation of teenagers and young people. In social networks, they write that representatives of the Russian-based Redan Communist Party movement, whose members are currently being detained en masse in the Russian Federation, have appeared in Ukraine. In Kharkiv, the police even detained teenagers to prevent a mass fight. The law enforcement officers identified 245 participants of the mass event, calling his “flash mob”, which was launched by the Russian Federation. According to Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of the GUNP in the Kharkiv region, law enforcement officers are now inviting parents whose children took part in the flash mob. Juvenile police officers will meet with them and conduct preventive discussions. “Ukrainian truth. Life” found out what kind of organization it is, what it does, what its ideology is, and how widespread the “Redan” movement is in Ukraine. What is known about the “Redan” PVC Information about the new movement began to spread actively in the media and social networks after the mass detention of teenagers in Malls of large cities of Russia. 300 people were detained in one evening in one of Moscow’s shopping malls alone. The reason for the arrests were mass fights, which, according to rossMI, were organized by representatives of a new youth subculture – “Redan Communist Party”. Young people also call themselves “spiders”, whose images with the number 4 are worn on their clothes. Teenagers consider themselves “informal”, and claim that they have nothing to do with military formations, and the “PVK” (by analogy with the infamous “Vagner” PVK of Prigozhin) was named “for a joke”. The emergence of the subculture is associated with the Japanese anime series “Hunter x Hunter”, in which there is a gangster group called “Genei Ryodan”, whose symbol was a spider and the number 4. Also, “redans” can wear checkered pants, prefer black clothes. However, teenagers do not consider themselves a criminal group. In social networks, it is claimed that community representatives oppose “white football fans and natives of the Caucasus and migrants.” At the same time, “Redans” declare that they “do not oppress people because of their religion or nationality.” According to the Russian mass media, “Redan” is an organization of representatives of the so-called anime subculture, however, unlike self-absorbed and sometimes apathetic evaluators of the genre, these boys and girls can stand up for themselves. “Redans”. Photo from social networks In social networks, “redans” are contrasted with so-called “offniks” – representatives of the opposite subculture, who are supporters of “brute force”. At the same time, propagandist Russian mass media claim that “redans” are a “psychological operation of Ukraine, which rejoices in fights in Russian shopping malls.” We will remind that in Russia they have been “fighting” with Japanese comics (manga) and anime for a long time. Certain books and films are banned through the courts. For example, popular anime like “Death Note” and “Tokyo Ghoul” have been banned in Russia since 2021. “Redans” in Ukraine It is currently unknown whether there are many so-called “Redans” in Ukraine. They gather with the help of social networks, where they call for “revenge for every informal”. Gatherings of teenagers, sometimes even with fights, have already been noticed in Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, etc. Teenagers who oppose the “Redans” also gather together and go to “chase” them. “In Cherkasy, the “Redan PKK” have not yet been spotted en masse, but local teenagers are already gathering to “deal with” them. They also record relevant videos. The PMC itself has local social networks where teenagers are gathered,” writes local mass media “Uman-Info”. A gathering of teenagers was also held in Ivano-Frankivsk. As reported to “Ukrainian Pravda” by the police of the region, no clashes were recorded. However, law enforcement officers conducted “educational work” with some teenagers and are currently investigating the situation. There are also reports of a fight between teenagers in Lviv, which was stopped by the police. Actions with the participation of “Redan residents” were also held in Kharkiv. According to publicist and journalist Andriy Popov, representatives of the organization are being “packed” by the police near the shopping center. “At first it spread in the Russian Federation (where else could such a thing be invented – anime-like teenage gangs that consider themselves PMCs and attack other subcultures?). In fact, it is an anime version of the skinheads of the 90s, who also shopped and beat everyone “not like that”. Since the Russian Federation has suppressed all traditional radical movements, in particular ultras, aggressive young people are looking for thrills in other places, show creativity and try to imitate what they see in the news,” says Andriy Popov. According to the police, law enforcement officers identified 245 participants of the mass event. The young men and women were detained and taken to the police units to find out all the circumstances. Above all, the patriotic youth of Ukraine is worried about the fact that the Redan movement is of Russian origin. Some Ukrainian “anime fans” joke that they can be attributed to the “Redan PVC” because of the symbols on their clothes and backpacks. Blogger and Japanese language teacher Borys Moroz says that even the name of the group was distorted in Russia. “According to the anime canon, it was “Ryodan” (旅団, “brigade”), but in Russian they often write ё without dots, so the name “Redan” appeared, which does not mean anything. Redan participants in the Russian Federation created their own revolutionary ideology. At its heart lies the idea that informals who received lyuls from gopniks and ultras can gather in a group and themselves write out lyuls to anyone,” he says. In Kharkiv, law enforcement officers identified 245 participants of the mass event. Borys Moroz also explained why, in his opinion, children imitate the Russian subculture, despite the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation: “The Ukrainian anime community has been concentrating only on the war for a year. And here the Russian group “Redan” appears and offers an idea that helps to immerse yourself in the romantic pre-war life with showdowns of officers and non-officers in the aesthetics of anime. The choice of a 14-year-old person from Frankivsk or Poltava is understandable here.” Detention of teenagers in Kharkiv. Photo: National Police. According to psychologist Kateryna Holtzberg, the movement of “redans” in Ukraine is currently not too widespread and massive. “I asked several teenagers. No one has even heard of such a name. There is no basis for the development of such a movement in Ukraine,” says the psychologist. Volodymyr Tymoshko, the head of the State Department of Education in the Kharkiv region, appealed to parents: “Be attentive to your children, keep in constant contact with them, help them understand what is happening , where is good and where is evil. War is fought not only on the battlefield. The enemy wants to destroy our country and uses our children to achieve his bloodthirsty goals. Only together we can stop it” Read also: Expansion from the East: why Ukrainian teenagers are fond of anime and should parents worry



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