The Other Russia opposition party plans to hold an unsanctioned protest in downtown Moscow on Monday, despite recent police searches and arrests, a senior member said.
Opposition and human rights activists rally on the last day of every month with 31 days in honor of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly.
The unregistered Other Russia party, formed and headed by controversial writer Eduard Limonov, plans to hold protests around an officially sanctioned rally after its separate application was turned down.
"Yesterday police searched flats of Other Russia members and confiscated computers as part of a criminal probe into instigating riots," Other Russia member Alexander Averin said, adding that 11 people had been arrested.
On December 31, two opposition rallies - one sanctioned and one not - were held on Triumfalnaya Square. Some 70 people, including Limonov and Boris Nemtsov, were arrested and spent 10 to 15 days in jail. RIA Novosti
