Representatives of the Russian opposition planned on the Constitution Day of the Constitution
of Changes from Pushkinskaya Square along the boulevards to Sakharov Avenue, intending to finish their action with a rally. However, the Moscow authorities
did not agree on the holding of a march without even offering alternative places for its holding.
In this regard, a group of civilian opposition activists tried to gather on December 12 on Pushkinskaya Square. The police stopped their actions, more than 30 people were detained. Among them are the members of the Yabloko party, including its leader Sergei Mitrokhin, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev and journalist Alexander Ryklin, as well as one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, former assistant to President Boris Yeltsin Georgy Satarov. Show more
To curtail