On December 11, 2008, in Moscow, in the square on Theater Square near the monument to Marx, activists of the "Russian Image" with like-minded people held a rally against labor migrants.
About 30 people with "Russian Image" flags and a banner gathered to demand changes in legislation regarding labor migrants in the context of the economic crisis. into the Criminal Code The participants asked to introduce the concept of "ethnic crime" .
“Changes to the Constitution are being discussed now, many are dissatisfied. And we see a good chance to correct, improve the Constitution. Since we do not consider this document, adopted under Yeltsin, to be holy and unshakable, now we see a window of opportunity to introduce the concept of “Russian people” into the Constitution , precisely as a state-forming one ," said Alexei Mikhailov, an activist of the Russian Civil Society.
State Duma deputy Maxim Mishchenko, the leader of Rossiya Molodoy, came out to the audience. The picketers handed him a list of legislative initiatives developed by the lawyers of "Russian Obraz". The "initiatives" were worked out the day before during the discussion at the round table "Labor Migration in a Crisis: Threats and Challenges" , which was attended by the same Maxim Mishchenko, Alexei Mikhailov, activists of the "Russian Obraz" Ilya Goryachev and Dmitry Taratorin and others.
Based on Internet blogs