Also in Moscow there will be a rally under slogan "Freedom for Tibet" - on Sunday, March 9, on Pushkin square, at 2.00 PM. The manifestation is being organized by the Radical Party and Moscow Friends of Tibet Society.

Among the speakers on the rally:

- Navang RABGYAL, representative of H. H. the Dalai Lama in Russia, CIS and Mongolia;

- Valerij BORSCEV, member of the State Duma (Jabloko);

- Semen ZUBAKIN, member of the State Duma (Russia's Democratic Choice);

- Nikolaj KHRAMOV, coordinator of the Radical Party in Russia;

- Dulma SHAGDAROVA, secretary of the Moscow Friends of Tibet Society;

- Margarita KOZHEVNIKOVA, secretary of Friends of Tibet Society St. Petersburg.

The manifestation will also open the petition campaign "A Square For Tibet" addressed to the Mayor of Moscow Mr. Jurij Luzhkov and aimed to name a street or a square in Russian capitol in favour of Free Tibet or the Dalai Lama.