The participants of the unauthorized rally against corruption held in the center of Moscow, offered to go to Sokolniki, on a consistent platform. This statement to the demonstrators through a megaphone asked the police, reports RIA Novosti.
“Those who came in Sunday afternoon on Tverskaya street, in order to Express their civic position, we remind you: this can be done in a coordinated Playground in Sokolniki Park,” called the guards.
The head of the Moscow Department of regional security and counteraction of corruption Vladimir Chernikov said the Agency that the departure of protesters in Sokolniki will “improve the situation”.
March against corruption began in Moscow at 14:00. The participants reported about the mass detentions of participants, including the organizer of the event opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Policies applied for holding a rally in the capital, but the city government refused, proposing alternative sites in Sokolniki and Lublin. However, the organizers refused the proposed options and expressed his intention in any case to go to Tverskaya street. Clarification on the inadmissibility of unauthorized events is published on the website of the Department of regional security and combating corruption of the city of Moscow.