The municipal authorities in Moscow refused on Wednesday to approve a planned opposition Freedom March, city security chief Alexei Mayorov said.
“The negotiations are over. Regrettably, the event has not been approved,” he said.
The negotiations started on Monday. The organizers insisted that the march route end at one of the city’s central squares, a demand that the Moscow government turned down.
Firebrand leftist leader Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the opposition Left Front movement, confirmed to RIA Novosti that the Freedom March will not go ahead because the organizers and city authorities failed to agree the route. The Opposition Coordination Council announced in late November the decision to hold the Freedom March in Moscow on December 15. About 50,000 marchers were expected to turn up.
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