
About a hundred people gathered on Saturday afternoon in the Novopushkinsky Square in the center of Moscow for an authorized opposition rally, Interfax reports. A regular participant and one of the most noticeable figures on protests, the leader of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov, did not come to the rally due to illness. By the end of the rally, it turned out that other opposition leaders ignored it. There were no detentions.
The protesters brought with them posters and banners: "For honest elections", "I change Putin on Khodorkovsky."
Among the participants in the rally, a young man depicting Yesenin was noticed, in his hands with a poster "Give my homeland!" - depicting the classics, pro -Kremlin activists dilute the opposition rallies.
During the rally, the details of the further shares of the opposition, including the "Million Mill", which is scheduled for May 6, were discussed.
In the square, the distribution of stickers was organized with an appeal to join the action on May 6.
As usual, safety measures around Pushkinskaya Square were strengthened.
Earlier on Saturday there was a rally of the Communist Party of the Communist Party , gathered about 1.5 thousand people.