MOSCOW, July 22 (RAPSI) - Moscow prosecutors have permitted the Left Front movement, headed by opposition firebrand Sergei Udlatsov, to resume its activity.
Authorities say that the movement took notice of the violations that led to the suspension of activities. The Left Front corrected the violations and sent documents proving as much to the prosecutor's office.
The movement's leader, radical leftist activist Sergei Udaltsov confirmed that the Front has been cleared by the prosecution via Twitter.
The Left Front is a far-left political movement encompassing organizations that support socialist development in Russia and the post-Soviet states. Left Front coordinator and opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov and two front members Konstantin Lebedev and Leonid Razvozzhayev have been charged with organizing mass riots.
The mass riots took place at a Moscow protest rally on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration last May for a third presidential term. The rally ended in violent clashes between protesters and the police. Over 400 people were arrested and scores were injured when protesters briefly broke through police lines in a bid to take their protest to the Kremlin walls.
The case was inititated after the "Anatomy of Protest 2" documentary film was shown on Russia's NTV broadcasting network. The film claimed that the opposition was organizing a coup using funds from abroad and showed Left Front movement coordinator Udaltsov and his companions allegedly talking with Givi Targamadze, who at the time headed Georgia's Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee, and is said to have been involved in planning the "color" revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as the mass riots in Belarus.