| http://www.lenta.ru/vojna/2003/09/21/meeting/
(quick tr by M.L.) Lenta ru: Rally against the war in Chechnya gathered three thousand people On Saturday, in evening in Moscow on the Lubyanka Square, a protest rally against the continuing of war in Chechnya took place. According to the last data, the number of participants in this action was approximately three thousand people. This number reports the NEWSRu agency with the reference to organizers of this rally - the fund "Agreement-[Soglasiye]", that was also confirmend by a correspondent of the Utro.Ru, who was on the spot of this event. Participants of this action proved to be well prepared to unfavorable weather conditions, which were going to be on Saturday evening in the area of Lubyanka: on all of its [participants] there were identical yellow-black polyethylene raincoats with the slogan "No to war in Chechnya", banners were made from the waterproof fabric. The basic idea of this rally was a call-up, at the beginning of present peaceful process in Chechnya, which the gathered [people] opposed to [calling it] a "profanation" of it, and "mockery above the common sense", which is going on presently there. The Chechen solution, about which the Russian authorities speak now, in the opinion of these protesters, exists only on paper. In the rally, people of the art and politics had taken their part too, including playwriter Andrey Yakhontov, national poet of the Chechen republic Musa Geshayev, the leader of "Liberal Russia" [party] Ivan Rybkin. The action has passed being very organized, there were no reports about any incidents. |