Pro-Kremlin Rally Organizers Expect Over 10,000 People at Downtown March. Opposition march

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in two weeks.

The Anti-Maidan leadership said Monday that the organization is prepared to pay fines if more than the permitted 10,000 people show up to a march in Moscow on Saturday, the Vzglyad newspaper reported. "We applied for 10,000 people, but today we know that more than 100 organizations will join the Anti-Maidan movement," Dmitry Sablin, a senator in the Federation Council's defense committee, reportedly told a news conference hosted by state news agency TASS.

The Anti-Maidan organization was formed in mid-January with the stated aim of preventing a Maidan-style popular uprising in Russia. Other prominent members include the head of the Night Wolves biker gang, Alexander Zaldostanov, aka The Surgeon, who was recently sanctioned by the United States, and female mixed martial arts fighting champion Yulia Berezikova.

A week later — on Sunday, March 1 — opposition leader Alexei Navalny plans to hold a march of 10 times as many people down Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's main street. Navalny and an associate, Nikolai Lyaskin, were detained by police on Sunday as they handed out fliers for the march at a Moscow metro station.

Lyaskin said Monday on Twitter that a formal application to conduct the march, titled "Spring," had been submitted to City Hall. It is against the law to hold public rallies in Moscow without prior consent by the city authorities.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/pro-kremlin-rally-organizers-expect-over-10-000-people-at-downtown-march/516018.html

... a formal application to conduct the march, titled "Spring," had been submitted to City Hall.

I wonder if the opposition will get a permit for their march as the Anti-Maidan, pro-Russia group has received.

[Duckhunter935]

1. I would think not

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2. If they did get a permit, I'm sure the Night Wolves would show up.

You, that nice group Putin likes, the one who marched on stage in swastika formation with torches during some musical performance in the Crimea?

Nothing fascist about that.