15 Dec 2012 16:41

People leaving Lubyanskaya Square - police

MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - People have started to leave the area near the Solovetsky Rock monument on Lubyanskaya Square in central Moscow, a Moscow administration official said.

"People who gathered near the Solovetsky Rock on Lubyanskaya Square have begun gradually to disperse," Alexei Mayorov, the head of the Moscow city administration's regional security department, told Interfax.

Some of the demonstrators earlier attempted "to press on the police cordon so as to broaden the area of the unsanctioned event."

"However, due to the police's coordinated actions and corridors arranged for the people to leave the area, a crush was prevented. People can freely leave Lubyanka now," Mayorov said.

The situation at the site remains stable, he said.