Moscow, 21 August: Police have detained an activist from [One Russia's] Molodaya Gvardiya [Young Guard] youth movement for attempting to nail a US flag on the office of the [opposition movement] United Civil Front [UCF] in Moscow.

"After a protest Kirill Shchitov, an activist of Molodaya Gvardiya's Moscow headquarters, was arrested by the police for trying to nail a US flag and a list of vacancies for [opposition politicians] Mikhail Kasyanov, Garri Kasparov and Eduard Limonov to the door of the UCF office," Interfax was told by the press secretary of Molodaya Gvardiya's Moscow branch, Polina Orekhova.

She said that the young man had been taken to a police station where an administrative protocol had been written.

Kirill Shchitov, for his part, said: "We want to tell Kasparov, Limonov and the activists they have hired to protest against Russia that there are more honourable ways to make a living than organizing political provocations against your own country". "We are giving them a magazine with fresh vacancies. Cashier, painter and construction worker. There are many good offers there," he said.

Interfax's source in the law-enforcement agencies said that "the protest lasted for slightly less than an hour and passed without serious incidents".