Anti-War Picketing in Moscow

     On July 15 2004 in Moscow on Novopushkinskiy Square there was a picket line against the war in Chechnya. Nineteen people took part in this action.

The picketers were holding signs:

пїЅWar crimes - genocide - suffering - civilian deaths - terrorist acts in Russia - war in Chechnya - President Putin! Negotiating with the separatists is the only way to peace! Break the vicious cycle of violence!пїЅ
пїЅThe war in Chechnya is a crime against humanityпїЅ
пїЅCitizen Putin, obey our constitution!пїЅ
пїЅWe will never be in the right there, just as the Germans were not in the right when they were fighting us in Russia! - Victor AstafyevпїЅ
пїЅTaxpayer- did you order a tank for Chechnya?пїЅ
пїЅWe donпїЅt want to be kept hostage to the whim of the authoritiesпїЅ
пїЅThough they are there defending the Motherland, its still not known what forпїЅ -- Colonel Yurii BudanovпїЅ
пїЅWho has UlпїЅman defended us from? On January 12, 2002, the director of a school, a forester, a driver, and an invalid woman and her attendant were shot by Edward UlпїЅman, Captain of the Russian Federation. A jury acquitted this murderer.пїЅ
пїЅWe stand up for ChechnyaпїЅs freedom - we defend a free Russian Federation! - and may all imperial dreams die!пїЅ
пїЅDiscussion with the separatists is the only way to end the war in ChechnyaпїЅ
пїЅHi from ChechnyaпїЅ (a sign with a picture of a one-armed invalid in a sailorпїЅs vest and camouflage pants, around whom are situated tombstone crosses)
пїЅToday - пїЅsweepsпїЅ in Chechnya, but tomorrow - terror around all of Russia.пїЅ
пїЅBy destroying the Chechen people, we are only provoking terrorism. Enough already!пїЅ
пїЅChechnya - a field of deathпїЅ For what?!пїЅ
пїЅChechnya, forgive us!!пїЅ
пїЅThe result of the introduction of пїЅconstitutional orderпїЅ: the death of 18 thousand of RussiaпїЅs soldiers, the abduction of more than three thousand peaceful citizens, and the death of more than 160 thousand non-combatants since 1994пїЅ      During the picketing around 10 signatures were collected protesting UlпїЅmanпїЅs verdict.      An anti-war picket takes place every Thursday evening on Pushkin Square (metro station Pushkinskaya / Chekhovskaya / Tverskaya) from 5:30 to 7 pm. Contact: Anna Karetnikova [email protected], www.antiwar.hro.org