Activists from the liberal political group Solidarnost were responsible for the stunt, the group said on its LiveJournal page.
Blogger Ilya Varlamov posted a picture of the banner at 12:30 p.m. on his LiveJournal page. One commenter to the post noted, "Do they know that Putin isn't in the Kremlin?", referring to the fact that the prime minister is based in the White House, located on Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya.
At 1 p.m. workers were in the process of taking the banner down, news website Ridus reported.
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