Moscow authorities permit 20,000-strong Russian March in Lyublino
MOSCOW. Oct 30 (Interfax) - Moscow authorities have permitted the Russian March of nationalists in the Moscow Lyublino neighborhood on the People's Unity Day, November 4. The action will have no more than 20,000 participants.
Originally, the city administration insisted that the march must have no more than 5,000-7,000 participants.
"The permission was confirmed. We adjusted the number of the march organized by Dmitry Demushkin to 20,000," head of the Moscow city administration's regional security department Alexei Mayorov told Interfax on Tuesday.
The scale of the action enlarged after Vladlen Kralin, aka Vladimir Tor, had joined Demushkin's request for holding the march.
Mayorov said the city authorities had permitted another action organized by Russian National Union leader Sergei Baburin. "The march will go along the Krymskaya Embankment. It will have up to 10,000 participants," he said.
"There will be approximately ten other events in Moscow on November 4. That will require great efforts of law enforcements and municipal services, which shall ensure security and order," Mayorov said.
The Russkiye movement and the Russian National Union are listed amongst nationalist organizations. Their leaders are members of the Russian March organizing committee.
Russkiye co-leader Alexander Belov told Interfax that a decision would be made by Tuesday night concerning the number of Russian marches in the capital city on November 4 - there might be a joined march or two actions, one in Lyublino and the other along the Krymskaya Embankment.
"We will make a decision soon," Belov said.