05 November 2010, 22:40
"Russian March" in Krasnodar was non-sanctioned
On November 4 - the National Unity Day - local nationalists made a march along the main street of Krasnodar, despite the ban of the city authorities.
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that about 150 marchers who arrived from different districts of the territory gathered not far from the city administration. During the march plenty of law enforcers could be seen near the venue.
For half an hour officials from the Krasnodar city administration and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) tried to explain to the audience that they had no right to hold the march as it was not sanctioned. However, according to the officials, nobody has filed an application on the march, otherwise the city administration would coordinate the action.
After a dispute with the authorities and militiamen, some of the nationalists went marching down the central street of the city - Krasnaya Street; the column was headed by a banner with the emblem of the Russian Empire and slogan: "We are Russians. God is with us". Militiamen accompanied the march.
"By the building of the territorial administration, at the monument to Kuban Cossacks, state officials appeared again," the protesters reported. "The polemics restarted with renewed force. But the marchers were firm in their intention to go on with their action; and soon the march continued, headed by the Cossack Ataman Plokhotnyuk, Nikolai Petrovich. In a slim column, with highly hoisted Cossack banner, the participants marched around the Zhukov Park, but soon were stopped by power agents. They tried to take the Cossack-banner bearer, but Colonel Plokhotnyuk toughly stood for the guy, and was detained himself by MIA agents and taken to the police station in Mira Street."
According to the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, Nikolai Plokhotnyuk is already at large. Law enforcement officials of Krasnodar refuse to comment the incident.
Author: Albina Astakhova Source: CK correspondent
