MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Activists of the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement are planning to picket the European Commission's Moscow office to protest being denied Schengen visas.
"About 300 Nashi activists will gather near the European Commission's Moscow Office, each of them dressed exactly as the Bronze Soldier that once stood on Tonis Magi Square in Tallinn," Nashi leader Nikita Borovikov told Interfax-AVN.
"Riots in Estonia and numerous protests against the removal of the [bronze] statue of the Soldier-Liberator prompted a double-standards policy towards Russia on the part of Europe," he said.
"Thousands of Russians who openly stood up against the Estonian government's anti-democratic measures are denied the freedom of movement and education in European countries," Borovikov said.
Nashi rallies against the "black lists" of those barred from entering the Schengen zone will be organized in all Russian regions, he said.