Youth Rodina Got Over the Road of Latvian President
Members of the youth Rodina (Russian for Fatherland) were intending to start celebrating the Victory Day at 8:00 a.m. in front of the Latvian Embassy, staging a rally to protest against the presence of the Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga at the military parade in the Red Square.
But before Rodina members, an army of Moscow police and OMON officers backed up by the officers of the Embassy’s Security Service bunched together near the Latvian Embassy. Chaplygina Street, where the Embassy is located, was blocked, naturally. Dressed in bright red jackets and baseball caps with the party’s emblems, the activists had hardly appeared from round the corner when they were caught by the police, handed into Gazel cars and forwarded to Basmannoe department of Moscow police. “The activist were kept in the [police] department for six hours with no other charges except crossing the road in the wrong place, but then this accusation was dismissed as well,” said Oleg Bondarenko, deputy head of the youth Rodina. Now all detained (28 persons overall) intend to go to the law.
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