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The opposition leaders have informed City Hall of their plans to hold a march and rally on June 12 in central Moscow.
The Left Front movement’s head, Sergei Udaltsov, who was released after 15 days in jail on Thursday, handed in the notification.
“We just handed in a notification about another March of Millions on June 12 to the Moscow City Hall,” he told Interfax. “In the notification we state that the march will go from Belorussky Station down Tverskaya Ulitsa, followed by a rally on Borovitskaya Ploshchad.”
The rally organizers arrived at City Hall on Sunday evening and had to wait outside to stay at the front of the line.
“We plan to start the march at 2 p.m., and the rally at 3 p.m. The application states that 50,000 people will take part in the march,” Udaltsov said.
There are “no reasonable grounds to deny us holding the rally,” said Solidarnost activist Sergei Davidis.
As for a possible request to move the event to a different route, Davidis said they needed to wait for definite suggestions from the City Hall.
Previously used route
“Considering that it is the route that the column of trade unions, headed by [then president Dmitry] Medvedev and [then prime minister Vladimir] Putin, took on a similar holiday on May 1, there are no reasons to say that it is impossible to hold an event on this route,” he said.
At present, between 5,000 and 9,000 people on various social networks agreed to participate.
The march’s demands will remain the same “honest elections, changing of power, civil rights.”
League of voters will also hold a rally on June 12 on Zemlyanoi Val, where it will open an initiative on re-electing Moscow City Duma, hoping to get together the 300 people needed to register the initiative.
Moscow City Hall has three days in which to reply to June 12 rally request.
City Hall wary of riots
However, head of regional security department Alexei Maiorov said on May 10 that the capital’s authorities would take into consideration the events of May 6, when a legal rally ended in a confrontation with the police on Bolotnaya Ploshchad. The organizers accused the police at the time of blocking the march, and the police accused them of provoking altercations. Since May 7, the opposition has been holding “strolls” in Moscow that often end in arrests.
At the weekend, the police were accused of knocking a woman unconscious at an Occupy Arbat camp, where hundreds of people gathered and dozens were arrested, including an Australian tourist with a white ribbon, symbol of the protest. He was soon released.
The police denied accusations, and said the woman “attacked the policemen several times, before demonstratively lying down on the pavement and closing her eyes,” Gazeta.ru quoted the police.
They could not explain, however, how she received a head injury diagnosed at the hospital, where she was taken.
New law
At the same time the State Duma is discussing a controversial bill that would increase the fines for violations at rallies. It is possible that the law will be passed before June 12. The bill was passed in its first reading, and fines for organizing rallies where there violations take place could be 1.5 million rubles, while the top fine for participants who broke the law would be 1 million.
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Russian Facepunchers are encouraged to come to the rally to protest against Valdimir Putin's corrupt and autocratic rule.
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And then OMOH and the MMPD try to suppress the protesters.
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