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No Ukrainians were among the participants of an unauthorized Strategy-31 rally detained in St. Petersburg on Ьфкср 31, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press secretary Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax-Ukraine.

According to him, the Ukrainian Consulate General in St. Petersburg checked the reports about the detention of Ukrainians during a rally on March 31.

"According to the data provided by the international cooperation department of the Interior Ministry’s branches in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, no Ukrainian citizens were among the detained protesters of the Strategy-31 rally, which took place in St. Petersburg on March 31," Dykusarov has said.

As reported, St. Petersburg police detained more than 100 participants of an unauthorized Strategy-31 rally on Thursday. All the detainees were taken to police stations. Over 300 people took part in the unauthorized rally in St. Petersburg, a police spokesman said.