Opponents of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006" held a picket near the Sakharovsky Center building

In Moscow, the day before, a picket of the Orthodox community was held against the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006" , which opened in the public center named after Sakharov.

The action, in which more than 100 people took part, took place at the center of the Center on the Earth Val in Moscow. Its participants lined up at the entrance, holding banners with the requirements to close the exhibition. The rule of law at the place of the action was provided by several dozen police officers.

As one of its organizers, the representative of the Orthodox community Dmitry Terekhov, said during the picket, the action is aimed at closing the exhibition and the center itself. Sakharov, "which constantly generates the provocations of millions of people, especially in the pre -election periods." “This gives an occasion to suggest that the center is part of the“ orange project, ”he said.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, this is the center where "scenarios of destabilization of the situation throughout Russia are being developed." According to the correspondent of Interfax , the action took place peacefully, clashes between the participants in the action and the employees of the Center were not noticed.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Moscow prosecutor’s office began verification regarding the organizers of the Forbidden Art-2006 exhibition . According to Interfax in the capital prosecutor's office, the Taganskaya interdistrict prosecutor's office checks the presence of a crime in the actions of the organizers of the exposition. "Based on the results of the audit, a decision will be made to initiate or refusal to institute criminal proceedings," said the representative of the prosecutor's office.

On the eve of the Orthodox public movement "People's Cathedral" appealed to the Moscow prosecutor with a demand to bring to criminal liability the authors and organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006". “This provocative exhibition grossly violates public order and is a frank challenge of public morality and morality. Exhibits set on it offend the religious feelings of Christians, excite religious discord and enmity,” the coordinator of the movement, director of the Center for People's Protection told Oleg Kassin.

Meanwhile, the director of the A. Sakharov museum Yuri Samodurov, who was previously prosecuted for holding the exhibition "Caution: Religion!" , he himself turned to law enforcement agencies for protection. He explained that his appeal was caused by the fact that the Union of Orthodox citizens plans to hold a picket at the center "against the blasphemy exhibition", and on some sites on the Internet there were direct calls to organize the pogrom of the center.

“I officially turned to the Tagansky District Department of Internal Affairs with a request to ensure the safety of participants in today's event in the center, as well as the exhibition“ Forbidden Art-2006 ”, which was organized in the museum. They called me from the Central Directorate and promised that they would guard,” Yu. Samodurov told Interfax.

He drew attention to the fact that the exhibition will present the works of world -famous artists, and many exhibits from the Tretyakov Gallery, which cost tens of thousands of euros. "Therefore, if anything happens to them, the museum will never pay.

But I am worried about not only the issue of the security of people and the safety of the exhibits of the exhibition, but also the content of the slogans that are advanced against us, as well as what can actually be behind them, ”Yu. Samodurov emphasized.