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Fugitive businessman to join Russian opposition rally in London

© RIA Novosti . Elena Pakhomova / Go to the mediabank"I would be pleased to talk to all journalists from all media, who would come up to me on that day, and I will answer all questions they ask. I'll be wearing a yellow T-shirt"
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Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a fugitive Russian businessman living in the U.K., said he would join a Russian opposition rally in defense of the right for peaceful assembly to be held outside Moscow's embassy in London on August 31.

Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a fugitive Russian businessman living in the U.K., said he would join a Russian opposition rally in defense of the right for peaceful assembly to be held outside Moscow's embassy in London on August 31.

The Strategy 31, a political movement uniting minor opposition parties, gathers in Moscow and some other Russian cities on the last day of each 31-day-month to defend the right to freedom of assembly, as enshrined in Article 31 of the Russian Constitution.

After Moscow authorities closed the Triumfalnaya Square, which has long been the traditional venue for the rally, the event's organizers announced a series of similar gatherings outside Russian embassies in several countries, including the United Kingdom.

"I would be pleased to talk to all journalists from all media, who would come up to me on that day, and I will answer all questions they ask. I'll be wearing a yellow T-shirt," the fugitive businessman said in his blog.

Chichvarkin, the former owner of the Euroset cell phone retailer, is wanted in Russia on suspicion of involvement in the 2003 abduction of the firm's shipping agent, who had allegedly stolen large quantities of mobile phones.

The businessman has been living in exile in Britain for almost a year.

In late January 2009, Moscow's Basmanny Court ruled to arrest Chichvarkin in absentia. Some two months later Interpol put the businessman on the international wanted list and Russian prosecutors sent an extradition request to Britain.

The extradition case is being heard in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court, and hearings are scheduled for September 13.

 

LONDON, August 26 (RIA Novosti)

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