“The meaning of this stroll is to show that we didn’t like the way authorities treated us in the first days of Putin’s presidential term […] If that was the face of a new Putin we’ve been promised — we don’t want this. He can either change his ways or we will stay on the streets.”
Grigory Chkhartishvili, known by pen name Boris Akunin, quoted by The Associated Press, via The Washington Post (Washington, D.C., USA), May 13, 2012.