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Youth movements to hold rallies in Moscow on March 4-5

Youth groups intend to gather over 10,000 people on March 4-5

MOSCOW, February 21 (Itar-Tass) —— Youth movements will hold rallies in Moscow on March 4-5, Andrei Tatarinov, executive secretary of the Common Effort Staff uniting Young Russia, New People, the Locals and the Group for Change, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

He said they intended to gather over 10,000 people on March 4-5. “The staff has lodged 20 campaign appeals to the Moscow city authorities. These include a rally on Lubyanskaya Square,” he said.

The events will not be combined with those of the Nashi movement, which plans to gather 20,000 activists in Moscow on March 4 and “to hold the round-the-clock monitoring on city streets from March 4 to 12.”

The organizing committee of the protest movement “For Fair Elections” plans its rally for March 5.