Massage at the rally

The police, as is usually the case at such events, fenced a patch on Pushkinskaya Square with metal partitions and carefully inspected the bags of everyone who came to the action. A student of one of the Moscow universities, twenty -year -old George told in an interview with Radio Liberty how he was at a rally organized by the capital's branch of the "Eurasian Youth Union":

- We were simply gathered here, and we participate in the rally.

- And who collected you?

- This is a company that gathers people in the mass. They called us and told us to come here.

- Are you a student?

- Yes, I'm a student, I am studying at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Acting.

An unemployed young man named Maxim came to Moscow four months ago from Yaroslavl. He also talked about how he got to a rally in the center of Moscow, dedicated to the anniversary of the August War in Georgia:

- Honestly or what?

- Honestly, of course.

To be honest, people were simply lured here in fraudulent ways - in connection with the shooting in the mass

- To be honest, people were simply lured here in fraudulent ways - in connection with the shooting in the mass. In general, people were gathered illegal ways. This political movement, most likely, has no activists, there is only a couple of people who row money from the state.

- Why did you come?

- I came about filming in the cinema.

- And what kind of film will be shot?

- No, the film will not be shot now. Just people involved in masses paid money so that they would catch up with the people.

- Are you interested here?

- No, it's just like the first shooting day - anyway, let's say.

Many of those who came to Pushkinskaya Square refused to communicate with reporters and silently listened to the speakers. One of them was the head of the Moscow branch of the Eurasian Youth Union Pavel Kanishchev . He said in an interview with Radio Liberty, for which several dozen people gathered in the center of the capital:

- These are young people, students who came to say about their memory.

“Do they know what will happen here?”

- I think if a person comes to the rally, he knows about it.

- If people come to the rally, then they support or share some ideas, right?

- Yes. Today is just a memory day. We want to recall those people who died a year ago, of Russian peacekeepers, about Ossetians, about Georgians who became victims of this regime. In addition, this is a geopolitical event. In fact, there was an attack on Russia, there was aggression from Georgia, well, of course, primarily from the West, from the USA. And this situation did not end, that is, they continue to support Georgia, continue to supply it with weapons, and Ukraine continues. And Yushchenko, in fact, is not very different from Saakashvili with the same rhetoric and just such an open heroization of Nazism, fascism, Shukhevich, Bandera ...

Other speakers spoke from the rostrum, that is, from the Gazeli, and accusations against the West, the USA and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili also dominated their speeches. The only thing that reminded of a mourning event was the transfer of the names of those who died during the August events of last year in Georgia.

This morning, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril committed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior the Panchid about all those who died in this conflict. The “Candle of Memory” campaign was also held in Tskhinvali, in the capital of South Ossetia, where President Edward Kokoita addressed the audience.