The ambassador's call pulled me from Union Square directly into that "safe room" at my office, and home, in Kabul.
They called on demonstrators to gather at 7pm local time (4pm GMT) in Manezh Square, directly in front of the Kremlin.
"People used to come up to our office on the fourth floor of 1 Times Square" — directly behind the sign — "and demand an explanation.
"People used to come up to our office on the fourth floor of 1 Times Square"—directly behind the sign—"and demand an explanation.
"When we arrived, we went to Tiananmen Square directly without having dinner, because we thought the National Petition Bureau was there," says Mrs Wang.
A small group of activists including Alyokhina, and the anti-Putin blogger Arseny Bobrovsky, took refuge in a giant Christmas ball on Moscow's Manezh Square, directly in front of the Kremlin.
Last month, while Corbyn was being castigated by much of the parliamentary party in a room in Westminster, thousands of his supporters were massing and chanting his name in Parliament Square, directly outside.
The Hermitage is planning to expand significantly, moving its Impressionist and post-Impressionist works of art, along with costumes, arms and armor, jewelry and decorative arts, into the General Staff Building, a sprawling neo-Classical structure in Palace Square directly opposite the Winter Palace, the Hermitage's main building.
In Secaucus, New Jersey, directly underneath the New Jersey Turnpike.
Britain now rules Northern Ireland directly.
