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Nemtsov challenges priest's view about Forgiveness Day not being best day for rallies

Moscow, February 24, Interfax - The opposition has disagreed with the opinion of the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, who said that February 26 (Forgiveness Sunday) will not be the best day for holding massive demonstrations in Moscow.

"As regards the Sunday, it would be interesting to hear Mr. Chaplin, were it a pro-Putin rally," one of the leaders of the non-registered People's Freedom Party Boris Nemtsov told Interfax on Friday.

The opposition is planning to hold a flash mob called Big White Circle on the Garden Ring in Moscow on Sunday. Yet another flash mob in the form of a street party will be held on the same day by Left Front on Revolution Square.

Earlier, archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin told journalists that the last Sunday before Lent is "not the best" day for a rally.

"This is first and foremost a day of forgiveness. If demonstrators forgive all those divided from them by grievances and frictions, it will be the best thing to happen on Forgiveness Sunday," he told a press conference in Moscow on Friday.

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