Close to 50,000 Russian Women and Men to Gather in Moscow for May Day

There are many Russians expected to rally in central Moscow on May Day this year. The groups that plan to gather include Communist, liberal and trade unions. May Day falls on Tuesday this year and the forecast calls for rain.

The Communists expect 15,000 people to congregate close to the Lenin statue on Kaluzhskaya Ploshchad. From there they will march to the Karl Marx statue that is near the Bolshoi Theater. The Movement Against Illegal Immigration ultranationalist group is going to join the Communists with about 1,000 people.

United Russia and the Federation of Independent Unions are teaming up and sponsoring a march that will travel down Tverskaya Ulitsa to rally at City Hall. They plan on drawing 20,000 people according to a spokesperson from the Federation of Independent Unions.

Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces are marching down Lubyanskaya Ploshchad to Kremlyovskaya Naberezhnaya, while the Liberal Democratic Party will hold a march that starts at Triumfalnaya Ploshchad, moves down Tverskaya Ulitsa and ends at Pushkin Square.

There will be more than 16,000 police officers on the streets that day and traffic will be restricted in the center of the city starting from 8 a.m. until the rallies are over which is expected to be around 1 p.m.

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