Moscow’s Pushkin Square drew a strong crowd yesterday (1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 people, depending on your source) to protest the destruction of the Khimki forest. Police apparently detained some opposition leaders ahead of the rally, including Lev Ponomaryov who says he was ‘just passing by‘, and intercepted musical equipment, but Yury Shevchuk still managed to play two songs (without a microphone) despite a ‘concert ban‘, reports say.  Reuters and the Moscow Times say that 3,000 people also gathered in Kaliningrad to call for Vladimir Putin’s resignation, but this AP report counts just ‘hundreds‘.  Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was apparently detained for ‘trying to march down a main Moscow avenue without permission‘ with 20 (or 100) others attempting to celebrate ‘Flag Day’.  RFE/RL has a video of the Moscow gathering.