Update on the planned march 1st demonstration in Moscow - the city council has approved it - location will be in the southeastern district of Moscow, not in the center as first was requested.
Moscow City Hall and representatives of the opposition coalition Solidarity agreed to hold the rally named ‘Spring Anti-Crisis March’ on March 1 in the district of Maryino in the southeast of the city, the head of the Moscow Directorate for Regional Security, Aleksey Mayorov, told reporters.
Navalny will not be present:
The Spring March will take place without the key opposition figure – founder of the Party of Progress and renowned anti-corruption blogger Aleksey Navalny. On February 19, a district court in Moscow ordered the activist be placed under administrative arrest for 15 days over repeated violations of the law on public political events.
This seems sound policy - allow the demonstration to take place but install measures to avoid manipulation of the event into a Maidan.
Quotes from RT : http://rt.com/politics/235315-russian-opposition-rally-moscow/