Actually I don't know in this case. Last year in Moscow they requested a permit to demonstrate on Pushkin Square, which is a main business area. They were denied on grounds that it would disruptive to business and traffic, and were given a different location at which to demonstrate. So what they did was call the foreign reporters and tell them to be at Pushkin Square, where they went to get themselves filmed being oppressed. I recollect the amusing spectacle of Kasparov confronting the police and shouting IN ENGLISH. (Insert *rolls eyes* emoticon here.) It's Other Russia SOP. Their support in Russia is close to zero and most people regard them as either lunatics or Western stooges, and the fact that Berezovsky announced he was funding them (which they deny, and he denies their denials) does not help matters.
Ah, the eternal comedy that is Russian politics!
BTW, Kasparov's oft-repeated claim that he is banned from Russian television is a complete lie, as anyone who goes to youtube and searches under "Kasparov" in Cyrillic (Êàñïàðîâ -- there now you can do it yourself) can verify.
--- Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2007 4:19 PM, Chris Doss
> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I knew this was gonna happen. It's OR's "nobody in
> > Russia likes us, so let's break the law, so we can
> get
> > ourselves filmed on camera being oppressed for a
> > foreign audience" strategy.
>
> I didn't catch what law they were breaking. Protest
> without permit?
>
> --
> Andy
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