May 6: there will be a rally, the procession is not

On May 2, four days before the planned protest campaign, the Moscow City Hall agreed on a rally in Bolotnaya Square, but refused the procession. This was immediately informed by Interfax Polyactivist and member of the Political Council of Solidarity Alexander Ryklin. The authorities gave permission for a rally of no more than 30 thousand people. "We have achieved that in the case of overflow of the rally territory, the shares area will be increased throughout the square and pedestrian part of Bolotnaya Street," Ryklin said.

Regarding the prohibition of the procession, a message appeared on the Facebook page of the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, who is now under house arrest: “Negotiations at the Moscow City Hall regarding the opposition’s procession (from Yakimanka to Bolotnaya) did not bring the result. The procession was not agreed on on May 6 to avoid a complete disruption of the event and clashes with the police, agreed to Only the rally will begin at a rally at 19:00 on Bolotnaya Square (collection from 18:00). The most important march ".

In social networks a few days before the rally, videos recorded by Russian artists and public figures appeared. Actress Elena Koreneva , artists and members of the Constitutional Court of the opposition Tatyana Lazarev and Mikhail Shats and others have already stated that they would be on May 6 in Bolotnaya.

On May 6, 2012, a rally was held in Bolotnaya Square, which ended in the detention of the participants in the action, and then grew into a “ swamp business ”, according to which 28 people are now taking place. The Investigative Committee believes that on May 6, 2012, planned mass riots occurred in the swamp mercy. Critics of the “swamp business” and the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation believe that the riots in Bolotnaya Square were provoked by police and authorities, and not at all those people who are now passing in the “swamp case” as accused. On April 29, the court decided to extend the arrest until June 25 of the anti -fascist and a member of the Constitutional Court of the opposition Alexei Gaskarov - at the moment of the last detainee in the "Bolotnaya case".

One of the main slogans of the rally assigned to May 6, 2013 will be "Freedom to Prisoners of Bolotnaya."