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Five out of ten prefectures of Moscow administrative districts ban the YABLOKO party from organising pickets by the metro stations on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the disaster at Chernobyl nuclear power station

April 25, 2002

Five out of ten prefectures of Moscow administrative districts banned the YABLOKO party from organising pickets near metro stations on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the disaster Chernobyl nuclear power station. However, according to the YABLOKO press service, on April 25 and April 26 the party will distribute leaflets to about 100 metro stations, and on April 26 a meeting will be held at Kaluzhskaya square, Moscow. The leader of YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky and well-known environmentalists and human rights activists will speak at the meeting.

The YABLOKO party initally planned the meeting at Kaluzhskaya square to be held at Ordinka in front of the Ministry of Atomic Energy building. However, on April 18, 2002, the prefecture of the Central District of Moscow banned the meeting at this street. According to the Deputy Prefect Zaitsev, the meeting would cause inconvenience for the personnel of the Ministry who are using premises in front of the building for parking space. Such a decision by the local authorities evoked an extremely negative reaction from the leadership of the Moscow branch of the YABLOKO party, environmentalist and human rights organisations supporting this action.

See also:

YABLOKO against Nuclear Waste Imports

Rosbalt, April 25, 2002

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