Mass events not allowed in Moscow due to epidemiological restrictions - city authorities

MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax) - The city authorities have denied permission to hold a number of mass events in Moscow on March 12 due to epidemiological restrictions.

There have been requests for permitting a number of public events on March 12, namely, a march from the junction of Strastnoi Boulevard and Naryshkinsky Passage along Strastnoi, Petrovsky, Rozhdestvensky and Sretensky Boulevards and Academic Sakharov Avenue to the junction of Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street due from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. with a potential turnout of up to 30,000, and a march from the area in front of the State Duma building along Tverskaya Street to Triumfalnaya Square due from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. with a potential turnout of up to 25,000 people, the Moscow Regional Security and Anti-Corruption Department told Interfax.

There was also a request for authorizing a demonstration between the Pushkinskaya and Okhotny Ryad metro stations with a potential turnout of up to 100,000 people from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

"There is a ban on public events in Moscow [...] due to the ongoing epidemiological conditions and for the purpose of containment of coronavirus infections in Moscow. No public events were allowed for that reason," the department said.