Leader of Samara's national-bolsheviks Mikhail Gangan.
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Germany Keeps in Step with March of Objectors
// The EU attained permission for the opposition rally in Samara to be held
EU chairing state Germany urged the Russian authorities on Friday to permit the March of Objectors scheduled for May 18th and timed for the EU-Russia summit in Samara. It happened after Samara authorities had banned Drugaya Rossia (Other Russia) opposition coalition from holding a protest march along the declared route, and law-enforcement authorities had begun persecuting the activists and journalists preparing for the march. The rally’s organizers announced on Friday night that Samara authorities gave their permission.
Germany, the current EU chairing state, asked the Russian authorities “to allow the opposition rally of protest to be held in Samara” on May 18th, the day of the EU-Russia summit and Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Angela Merkel.
Germany was apparently forced to make this request, -- by the persecutions of the rally’s organizers and journalists covering it. For instance, police arrived to the editorial office of Samara’ Novaya Gazeta newspaper at 11 a.m. on Friday. The police showed an order for checking the office for using illegal software, examined all computers, and sealed five of them, paralyzing the newspaper’s work.
Several hours after Germany’s statement, on Friday night, the rally’s organizer Anastasia Kurt-Adjieva, who was not arrested, said that the city authorities had given permission for the rally to be held on May 18th in central Samara, with about 1,000 participants.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 12, 2007
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