According to officials of the Moscow Central Administrative District (TsAO), the number of participants in the rally exceeded the quota of those officially registered to take part by three times, as the law-enforcement agencies estimated the attendance at nearly 2,000. The TsAO was naturally unhappy about this, but it shows that the rally drew more support than such gatherings in Moscow usually do.
The former Soviet dissident Valeria Novodvorskaya, a prominent opponent of President Putin's Chechnya policy, is in the second photo from the top. The TsAO was also displeased about her participation in the rally, and considered that she went too far in some of the remarks in her address.
The organizers of the rally plan to repeat it in a month's time.
(via Marius)
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