From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:05 PM 25.4.2007 19:57 MSK Criminal case filed concerning the exceeding of official authority during crackdown on Dissenters' March RUSSIA, Saint Petersburg. On April 4, the Procuratorship of the Central Region of Saint Petersburg filed a criminal case concerning the exceeding of official authority during the crackdown on the Dissenters' March in Petersburg on March 3. Investigations will be conducted of five administrative detentions on Nevsky Prospekt, reported Vice-Governor Valerie Tikhonov.
As reported on April 23, by the press-service of the St. Petersburg department of the Yabloko party, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg has received an answer to a March 9 Deputies' Inquiry by Mikhail Amosov and Natalya Yevdokimova. The deputies were interested to know on what basis the authorities took "strict measures" in the course of the Dissenters' March on March 3.
The Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg reported that 300 OMON from other regions of Russia arrived in St. Petersburg "to conduct joint exercises on the OMON base in Saint Petersburg in accordance with the training program of the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) of the Russian Federation and those forces were used as reserves for guaranteeing social order during the Dissenter's' March". According to the letter, the OMON forces were financed by the MVD of Russia.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-news Agency [2007-04-23-Rus-22] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/4/25/38089.html
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