*YABLOKO means “apple” in Russian
Protection from Arbitrary Rule on Savior of the Apple Feast Day (Yablochny Spas), such was the slogan of the YABLOKO’s action conducted on August 19. A coach with party symbols took YABLOKO’s activists first to the Kitai Gorog police department (the one which detained YABLOKO’s collectors of signatures at the Red Square), then to the court and then to lay flowers to the memorial cross set at the place of the church pulled down 45 years ago.
At 10 a.m. party activists drove to the Kitai Gorod police department. Despite of the fact that YABLOKO had not notified the police of the action, the police was prepared to meet the “guests” with metallic fences and special police forces (OMON) on guard of the police department. Noticing video cameras the special forces retreated to the backyard and their place was taken by the ordinary policemen from the Kitai Gorod police department.
All the policement politely refused to take apples the party activists brought to them as a present to celebrate the holiday and got nervous when the activists put a table and chairs in front of the police department and began collecting signatures and treating Muscovites with apples.
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Elections to the Moscow City Duma, 2009 | 