In Yekaterinburg, they have decided to strictly enforce the new United Russia party law on rallies and marches. Under the law, your trip to the movies with friends could be treated as a march and would require official approval. The law is the law:

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http://youtu.be/SbuTZPjkFZU More details here or on the main protagonist’s blog. Actually, it’s not a bad idea. Public order must be maintained, after all—so Moscow should also have a couple hundred officially sanctioned marches for cigarettes and ice cream, as well as approved rallies while waiting in line at Sberbank (Russia’s largest state-owned bank).

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