The rally of the US Embassy in Moscow ended

The police detained several participants in the anti -war manifestation from the US Embassy in Moscow, who tried to throw a diplomatic mission with "certain objects." The incident occurred during the passage of one of the columns of the manifestants past a temporary fence near the embassy building. Several young people tried to throw objects similar to plastic toys in his direction, but were immediately detained by police officers.

Eyewitnesses report that participants in the protest organized by the United Russia party and trade unions were thrown by the US Embassy in Moscow with eggs and tomatoes, ITAR-TASS reports.

Representatives of law enforcement agencies reported that the four participants in the rally, who threw the embassy of the embassy with eggs and tomatoes, was made a warning, they were subsequently released.

The protesters held more than two thousand anti -war slogans and banners in their hands, all arrivating citizens were heard leaflets with an appeal to condemn the actions of the anti -Irak coalition. Patriotic songs sounded.

Manifestants with anti -war banners and posters continuously arrived from different directions to Novinsky Boulevard, where the US diplomatic mission is located. The columns were accompanied by ambulance vehicles, one of them had already taken away a man who became ill during the movement.

Among the protesters were activists of United Russia, representatives of trade unions and Moscow universities.

Among the participants there are many young people who behaved defiantly.

Some of the protesters were brought to the building of the US Embassy on buses. The demonstrators kept flags with the logos of United Russia, as well as slogans: “Engage in economics, not war!”, “Columbus - why did you open America?”, “Iraq - not Monica,“ Bush - Don’t fight with diplomats! ”,“ Ashamed, America! ”,“ Down with the war in Iraq! ” America! ".

The main participants in the rally held by the United Russia party were employees of capital enterprises and students.

The rally ended at about 13:20 without special incidents.

The rally participants adopted a resolution demanding "immediately stop the war in Iraq, return the situation to the channel of political settlement." The document signed by the organizers of the rally states that "the organization uniting humanity should be the UN, not the Pentagon." The text of the resolution was transferred to representatives of the US Embassy. At the end of the protest, the rally participants burned the scarecrow of the American president.

In addition, at the end of the rally, the students participating in it began to burn the dollar bills available to them. Representatives of law enforcement agencies reacted calmly to this.

According to the head of the information and public relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, Valery Gribakin, up to 100 thousand people took part on Wednesday in the rally against the war in Iraq in the American embassy in Moscow.

Sources in the city administration "Interfax" confirmed this figure. The ambassadors of the representative of the city administration, "Muscovites showed very high activity." “This is one of the most numerous rallies in the capital of Russia in recent years,” the source emphasized.

According to data at 14:00, the movement of vehicles in the area of ​​the US Embassy was restored. The movement resumed only when all the citizens participating in the rally parted to the nearest metro stations.

Students of Moscow universities voluntarily directed at a rally against war in Iraq

In a number of metropolitan universities on April 9, classes were canceled, and students are aimed at an anti -war action. About this, referring to the words of students - participants in the action, reports "Echo of Moscow".

According to the correspondent of the radio station, students of the Moscow State Social University, Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, MGIMO, Moscow State University participated in the protest.

Evgeny Yudin, Vice -Rector for educational work of MVTU named after N. Bauman, whose students also take part in the anti -war action, said that participation in the action is a voluntary matter.

Students in such events are organized by student trade unions. “The administration does not include its resource,” Yudin explained. “There were no instructions of the dean’s office from classes to participate in students in the rally.”

There is no question of any multi -row, he added. "A person has a desire, he goes to the rally, does not want, does not go."

He also said that classes at the MVTU named after N. Bauman takes place in two shifts, training in the second shift begins at 15:00, and many students have a day off today - thus, many students have the opportunity to take part in the anti -war action without prejudice to the educational process.

Serious security measures were taken

The US Embassy itself was in the triple ring of a cordon from the police and soldiers of the internal troops. Part of the Garden Ring from Smolenskaya Square to the Square of the uprising was also numbered by military personnel of the internal troops.

According to Tuesday in the information and public relations of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, more than 2.3 thousand employees of the protection of order were involved in ensuring the law enforcement during the anti -war action. Among them are 1.3 thousand military personnel of the internal troops and a separate special forces division, four dog handlers with official dogs and 200 employees of the Moscow riot police.

In the morning, six trucks and two buses with military troops arrived on the old American diplomatic building on Novinsky Boulevard, about 20 more trucks are on Konyushkovskaya embankment.

The movement along Bolshoi Devyatinsky Lane and nearby streets were blocked, cars were evacuated, traffic police officers and reinforced police outfits checked freight vehicles. Also, the American embassy was exhibited by metal fences, they occupy two rows of garden rings.

According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the rally was authorized by the Moscow authorities, and the allocation of a large number of police officers to ensure security is caused by the fact that "about 100 thousand people are planned to participate in the event."

Participants in the anti -war rally went to the embassy building from three directions. The columns began movement at 11:30 from the humpbacked bridge, Kudrin and Smolensk squares. The start of the action near the building of the American embassy in Moscow was planned at 14:30, noted in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

According to Tuesday in the Moscow City Committee of Trade Unions, the purpose of the manifestation is to express a protest against hostilities in Iraq and shelling by American soldiers of the Russian diplomatic column in a suburbs of Baghdad.

Participants in the action are warned about the need to observe public order .

On Wednesday, the traffic was limited in the center of Moscow

In connection with the conduct of anti-war processions and a rally at the US Embassy on Wednesday in the center of Moscow from 11:30, the traffic was limited to the end of the events, Interfax told the press service of the capital of the capital.