MOSCOW POLICE BLOCK MOTORCADE UNDER ARMENIAN FLAGS

Interfax News Agency, Russia
April 24 2008

Moscow police have blocked a motorcade of 15-20 jeeps flying Armenian
flags in the city center on Thursday afternoon, a police source
told Interfax.

"The vehicles were moving by the Garden Ring, from Mayakovsky Square
to Smolenskaya Square. The police blocked them. They had no permission
to hold the action, so the drivers were requested to take away the
flags," he said.

The motorcade headed for 7th Rostovsky Side-Street, where the Turkish
embassy is located. It was stopped near Borodinsky Bridge.

He said the action was held in protest against the Armenian genocide
in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.