Moscow authorities refuse to authorize freedom march route
Moscow city authorities have refused to allow an opposition
march planned for December 15 to take place in the capital's
center, Radio Liberty reported.
Officials said it would disrupt traffic.
Organizers said alternate routes proposed by the mayor's office
were unacceptable.
The December 15 Freedom March was to mark the first anniversary of
the mass street protests that erupted after the December 2011
parliamentary elections amid allegations of widespread fraud.
Organizers expected 50,000 people to take part.
Several opposition leaders said they would instead go to Moscow's
Lubyanka Square outside the former KGB headquarters to lay wreaths
at a monument to victims of Soviet repression.
The opposition is planning marches in other cities across Russia on
December 15 as well.
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