Moscow and rallies are waiting for Moscow on Saturday: the authorities are preparing, installing metal detectors and blocking the movement

The upcoming weekend in Moscow promise to be rich in political emotions. The city will take place at once several mass shares agreed with the authorities dedicated to the events in the Crimea, and, in particular, the upcoming referendum on the status of the region. In this regard, additional security measures will be taken in the center of the capital.

Dozens of metal detectors will be installed on the streets. In a number of areas, a restriction on traffic will be introduced, including public, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

One of the most mass events is expected on March 15 on Sakharov Avenue . From 15:00 to 18:00 there will be a rally, for which up to 50 thousand participants are declared. The rally will be held before the rally, called the organizers of the "march of the world." It will be held from 14:00 to 15:00 on the inside of the passionate, Petrovsky, Christmas and Sretensky Boulevards to Sakharov Avenue, where the main event will then be held. "This is a protest against the outbreak of war, against the armed intervention of the Russian authorities in the affairs of Ukraine," the page of the event on Facebook says.

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The passage of citizens to a rally will be carried out through 25 arched metal detectors. They will be installed on the roadway of Naryshkinsky Lane from the corner of house 34 on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street to the corner of house 9 in Bolshoi Putinkovsky Lane. Two more frames will be located across the roadway of Petrovka Street from the corner of house 15 in Bolshoi Putinkovsky Lane to the corner of the house 1 along Petrovsky Boulevard.

Another procession will be held from 14:00 to 15:00 along the route: Neglinnaya Street - Rakhmanovsky Lane - Petrovka Street - Revolution Square. From 15:00 to 17:00 , a rally will be held on the Revolution Square between the square and the Metropol Hotel, with the declared number of participants up to two thousand people .

It will be possible to go to the event through the 13 frames of metal detectors installed around the perimeter of the carriageway of the colored boulevard from the house - 13 to Petrovsky Boulevard, the police said. Two more frames will be located across the carriageway of the revolution, from the fencing of the square at the monument to Karl Marx to the building of the Metropol Hotel, at the exit from the underground pedestrian crossing and one frame behind the improvised rostrum.

In addition, from 13:00 to 15:00 a rally will be held in the Novopushkinsky Square , with a declared number of participants up to one thousand people . Those who wish to take part in the event will be able to go to the place of its implementation through three frames of metal detectors.

At 14:00 to 16:00 there will be a rally on Suvorovskaya Square at the monument A.V. Suvorov with the declared number of participants up to 300 people .

In order to avoid possible riots, the police ask citizens not to succumb to provocations. "Any violations of public order will be suppressed by law enforcement officials. Persons violate the current legislation will be attracted to liability established by law," law enforcement officers warned.

The organizers of the "march of the world" came up with how not to cross with Marsh Kurginyan

The organizer of the Miracle Mira Peter Tsarkov said that representatives of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow assured him that the route of the column movement, which intersects with the "march of brotherhood and civil resistance" by Sergey Kurginyan on Petrovsky Boulevard near Trubnoye Square, would not lead to a meeting of marches - they are spaced in time, writes New Gazeta .

According to Tsarkov, the representatives of the headquarters assured him that when the column of the pacifist march is approaching Trubnoye, participants in the second action will already pass this site.

“We can slightly move the beginning of the procession in order to guarantee to avoid a clash. We can start not at 14 o’clock from Pushkinskaya Square, but after information appears that there are no participants in another action on the route,” Tsarkov said, adding that the column movement can begin even at 14:30.

He suggested that the Moscow authorities deliberately allowed the coordination of intersecting routes, but promised to do everything to avoid a clash with opponents.

The press service of the Kurginyan movement "The essence of time" said that the collision of the columns was initially impossible.

For motorists, the upcoming Saturday will become "black"

Mass stocks in the city center will affect not only pedestrians, but also motorists. In connection with the intended events, traffic in the center of Moscow will be limited, Interfax was told in the press service of the capital's traffic police department.

In particular, on Saturday it will not be possible to drive along the inside of the passionate, Petrovsky, Christmas and Sretensky boulevards, Academician Sakharov Avenue, Color Boulevard, Neblinnaya Streets, Petrovka, Okhotny Ryadnaya (from Tver Boulevard towards the Center), as well as along Rakhmanovsky Lane.

The press service of the Mosgortrans State Unitary Enterprise reported to journalists that in connection with the subbotny shares on Sakharov Avenue and the Revolution Square from 09:00 and before the end of the events, the trolleybus routes 13 and 15 will follow from the Milashenkov Street to the Summary Square (along the trolleybus highway 47), 31 - from the Luzhniki end station) to the area of ​​the Nikitsky Gate; Bus 24 - from the final station "Hotel" VDNH "to Samotnykaya Square.

From 12:00 p.m., the trolley 9 will proceed from the end station "Hotel" Ostankino "to Kapolsky Lane. Tolleybuses 2, 12, 33, BS, BC and Bus 12C on Saturday will work with enlarged traffic intervals.

The traffic police appeal to drivers with a request to be extremely careful, to choose alternative traffic routes in advance, strictly comply with road signs, requirements and instructions of employees of the road-patrol service.