Video: St Petersburg protester punched in the face while police look on

A video has surfaced online which appears to show one of the individual protesters from St Petrsburg yesterday, being violently hit in the face with a foam pie, while police officers take no action.
The activists spread themselves out along the city’s main thoroughfare because mass protests are sometimes banned, or often disrupted by police.
The video, which was posted yesterday by The National Cathedral of St Petersburg, which describes the protester Danya Grachev from the Straight Alliance for LGBT Equality, as a “foreign agent”, reports AmericaBlog.
Reports suggest that other protesters were also attacked during their peaceful, and individual protests, but that no arrests were made, other than on the protesters themselves.
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