YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKo founder and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, led YABLOKO’s column at the manifestation against the “Anti-Magnitsky law”.

Sergei Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky

The march started from the Pushkin square along boulevards to Sakharov Prospect. YABLOKO activists held banners “MPs and officials fight against corruption, not against children!”, “Cannibalistic Duma should be dismissed!” and others.

Yevgeny Bunimovich, Moscow Ombudsman for Children and member of YABLOKO’s Political Committee, joined YABLOKO’s column during the march.

Grigory Yavlinsky and Yevgeny Bunimovich

When the column reached Sakharov prospect, Sergei Mitrokhin thanked all those who came to the action and addressed them with a short speech. "Our entire state power, all its branches have demonstrated that their main goal is to protect the embezzlers and even murderers involved in the Sergei Magnitsky case. The authorities put a human shield of orphans around these scoundrels and scum," said Mitrokhin.

According to Mitrokhin, "this is the most egregious law adopted by the State Duma". "The first time we have been so eloquently shown the cannibalistic grin of the political regime which has been destroying our country,” he said. “But we will again and again resist it, and again we will go to the streets and use any other peaceful, constitutional means so that to remove the regime from power," he concluded.

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January 13, 2013