Moscow mayor’s office rejected the opposition rally on Bolotnaya – BBC Russian

• 27 April 2015

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Moscow mayor’s office rejected the opposition to hold a rally on May 6 Swamp area, as the organizers wanted, and offered to hold a rally on the outskirts of Moscow – on the street Marshal Vasilevsky.

As the head of the department of regional security Moscow Alexei Mayorov, the proposal is related to the preparatory work being carried out for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

“This is the only place where the organizers can comfortably hold your event, without affecting other stocks that already planned in the city “, – told Interfax Mayorov.

Earlier, the opposition filed in the Moscow mayor’s office application for the May 6 rally on Bolotnaya Square with up to 15 thousand people.

The opposition say they are not satisfied with the proposed government rally venue.

Journalist Alexander Ryklin Bureau of “Solidarity” movement told RIA Novosti that the Committee of protest actions on Monday evening to discuss the issue of holding the shares, as well as its format.

Another place to According Ryklin not considered. “We do not want a meeting devoted to the events in the same area, to spend on other areas,” – said the representative of the opposition.

Ryklin believes that everyone can come on very marshy area, which, he said, “until that open access Muscovites “.

agreed with the authorities opposition rally May 6, 2012 ended with clashes between demonstrators and police and mass arrests.

16 people were sentenced to prison terms of two years and three months to four and a half years in prison.

For four years and six months, activists have received the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev.