Petersburg Mayor's Office allows to hold "Russian March"

The Mayor's Office of St. Petersburg gave a permit to organizers of the scandalous "Russian March" to hold their action on November 4, the "Media Activist" reports.

Some time earlier, Valentina Matvienko had spoken against the "Russian March" in St. Petersburg due to the extremist and nationalist directivity of the event. The lady-governor added that she had given respective instructions to district heads and law enforcement bodies on non-admittance of this sort of actions, and addressed Petersburg residents "not to yield to provocations" of nationalist political forces, the "Fontanka.Ru" reports.

Earlier, Moscow authorities have banned the "Russian March." "We saw on November 4 last year the so-called "Russian March," when people were marching with chauvinistic outcries and slogans," Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow Mayor, declared. "If we concede this split of the state by national belonging, Russia will not be able to withstand it."

Earlier, the Russian Anti-Fascist Front (RAF) made a declaration "On Danger of Provocations from Organizers of So-Called "Russian March"."

However, the organizers of the "Russian March" are not scared by authorities' bans and anti-fascists' indignation. Russian nationalists have placed in the Internet and sent by E-mail appeals to come on November 4 to the metro station "Komsomolskaya-Circular" and hold a nationalist march in the metro, the "Kommersant" reports.

The "Russian March" organizing committee includes several State Duma deputies, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII), the "Narodnaya Volya" (People's Will) Party, the Russian All-National Union, the People's Nationalistic Party and some others.