[4] The ambassador of Ghana in the Soviet Union, John Banks Elliott, requested militsiya protection of the Ghanaian embassy.

[3] African students alleged that he was knifed[2] by a Soviet man because Assare-Addo was courting a Russian woman.

The protesters carried placards with the slogans "Moscow – center of discrimination", "Stop killing Africans!"

[3] The protesters marched to the Spasskiye Gates of the Kremlin, where they posed for photographs and gave interviews to Western correspondents.

[3] The Soviet TASS news agency responded with a statement: "It is to be regretted that the meetings of the Ghanaian students which began in connection with their claims to the embassy of their country resulted in the disturbance of public order in Moscow streets.