Moscow's Tverskoy District Court on Wednesday sentenced to 15 days in jail one of the leaders of the Russian radical Movement Against Illegal Immigration Vladlen Kralin, aka Thor, detained during the violent protest which occurred at central Manezh Square in late-2010, court spokesperson Alexandra Berezina said.
The Russian capital saw its biggest public disturbances for almost a decade when a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police at Manezh Square on December 11.
The clash was followed on December 15 by further disturbances as ethnic Russians and internal migrants gathered for a confrontation near a major train terminus in Moscow. Race hate riots also occurred in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities.
Kralin was charged for disobeying police, Berezina said.
The man has just been released from jail where he spent 10 days for disobeying police during an opposition campaign at Moscow's central Triumfalnaya Square on New Year's Eve.
Russian media have reported that the Moscow's branch of the radical movement has called on its backers to hold a protest on Red Square December 31.
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
