YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin, member of YABLOKO’s
Bureau Valery Borschov and activists of the Moscow branch
of the party participated in a march and a rally in memory
of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova.
Several hundreds people marched along the Tverskoy Boulevard
to the Novopushkinsky Garden in the centre of Moscow. The
participants held portraits of the murdered antifascists and
journalists. A short rally took place in the Novopushkinsky
Garden. People spoke about the neonazists’ crimes performed
at the negligence of the authorities. One of the last speeches
by Stanislav Markeov recorded shortly before his death was
demonstrated on one of the large monitors.
Thousands of sky lanterns were launched into the sky at the
end of the rally.
At noon Sergei Mitrokhin and members of Political Committee
Grigory Yavlinsky and Mikhail Amosov laid flowers to the place
of murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova at
Prechistenka street.
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Leaders
and activists of the YABLOKO party laid flowers to the place
of murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova. Press
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