The highest number of protesters recorded for yesterday’s Strategy 31 rally in Triumfalnaya Square was 2,000, apparently in two separate rallies around Lyudmila Alexeyeva and Eduard Limonov, which later merged.  The latter’s unsanctioned demonstration, which took place on the periphery of the first, reportedly drew a number of arrests, fulfilling Limonov’s prediction that his supporters, who ‘used power tools to try to dismantle a fence around a construction site on part of the square‘, would be ‘hauled into paddy wagons‘.  Ellen Barry at the New York Times calls the march ‘a civics experiment for both sides.‘  Reuters and the Russian press are reporting roughly 1,000 protesters, the Moscow Times ‘hundreds‘. Many of those attending changed anti-Putin slogans, says this report.  A Halloween Parade of 200 people was held in Novosibirsk.