Activists of "Left-Wing Front" burn Saakashvili portrait in front of Georgia's embassy

In Moscow, in the context of the explosion of the "Memorial of Glory" in Kutaisi, activists of the "Left-Wing Front" held a non-sanctioned protest action near the embassy of Georgia to Russia. None of the protesters was detained.

As reported by Sergey Udaltsov, coordinator of "Left-Wing Front", at about 2:00 p.m. the activists unfolded a banner "Shame to vandals!" at the embassy, lit fires and scanned slogans directed against the authorities of Georgia. The also burnt down a portrait of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

The action lasted for a couple of minutes, then, its participants disappeared, the "Gazeta.Ru" reports.

In its turn, the press service of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation reports that the Chamber has expressed its indignation of the absence of any reaction of the world human rights community to the demolition of the memorial.

According to Alexander Brod, a member of the Chamber and the head of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights, "special cynicism" of the explosion is in the fact that it was committed one day after the UN Resolution with expression of concern of attempts of desecrating monuments, erected in memory of fighters against Nazism.

Today in Georgia, oppositionists have also protested against the demolition of the memorial. Protest actions were held in Kutaisi and in front of the President's residence in the capital.

As stated by David Liluashvili, head of the coalition of NGOs "For Our Rights", the fact of death of two persons in the explosion of the memorial in Kutaisi "was a result of Georgian President's whim," as the "Georgia Online" reports.

The Labour Party has treated the explosion of the monument as "another act of vandalism of the authorities" and personally of Saakashvili, since it was his personal order to blow the monument up. As noted by Ioseb Shatberashvili, secretary general of the party, the attempt to accuse a private company of the accident has failed.

The "Movement for Fair Georgia" has promised, should it come to power, to build not a parliament building there, but a church. Oppositionists have stated that the casualties of the explosion fell victim of the "imprudent and non-professional actions of the government."