Police in Yekaterinburg tell residents not to look out their windows when Putin visits later this week

Police in Yekaterinburg have begun preparations for Vladimir Putin's visit later this week on November 25. Law enforcement have focused their security efforts on the city's center, where residents are being asked not to look out the window, the day of Putin's visit.

Putin is expected to arrive in Yekaterinburg for the opening of the new Yeltsin Center. On hand for the opening ceremony will be Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, as well as other figures who knew Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president, who died in 2007.

Patrol officers have been going door-to-door, meeting with residents in the city's center, issuing warnings about the day of Putin's visit. "A police officer came to my door," one resident told the website Politsovet. "He took down my license plate and phone number, and asked me not to look out my window that day, and not to open my windows."

According to reports, police have not explained what happens to residents who decide to look out or open their windows.