MOSCOW – The Moscow administration will hold talks with opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s supporters on Thursday to discuss moving a march and rally on May 5 from Tverskaya Street to Akademika Sakharova Avenue, the head of the Moscow region’s security department, Vladimir Chernikov, said.
“We have begun a dialogue with organizers. Tomorrow a meeting will be held, at which the possibility of providing a venue on Akademika Sakharova Avenue for the event will be discussed,” Chernikov told Interfax on Wednesday.
He said earlier on Wednesday that the applicants were not in contact with the authorities, but that he was hopeful that talks would take place.
Navalny said on April 24 that Moscow’s City Hall had rejected the application to march down Tverskaya Street and hold a rally on Manezhnaya Square on May 5.
Navalny’s followers were told they could hold the event in northwest or southeast Moscow, Chernikov told Interfax on April 24.
