Russia: Zombies Versus the State in Omsk

Early last Sunday morning (19 August, 2012) in the city of Omsk, Russia, a few hundred young people gathered together at the Irtyshskaia Embankment and held a hastily organized flashmob. Police were on hand to warn everyone that they represented an illegal assembly, and could be charged with breaking the law. Why did roughly 300 of Omsk's citizens come out into the street on a Sunday morning? The answer to that question is the “Zombie Parade”: the city's first attempted ‘walk of the living dead.' Read more on Global Voices »