March

March 5. A rally on Pushkinskaya Square. Oppositionists at the fountain

March 3, Saturday

Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained as the alleged participants in the punk-ground in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior , held by the Pussy Riot group. The girls were first delivered to the Department of Internal Affairs in the CAO of the city of Moscow, and then to Petrovka, 38. The detainees declared a hunger strike, demanding a change in preventive measure. Two days later, the Tagan court authorized the arrest of the participants until April 24.

March 4, Sunday

Voting Day for the President of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin scored, according to the Central Election Commission, 63.6% of the vote . In second place is Gennady Zyuganov with 17.18% of the vote, in the third - self -nominated Mikhail Prokhorov with 7.98%, then Vladimir Zhirinovsky with 6.22% and Sergey Mironov with 3.85%. From the election race, Eduard Limonov and Grigory Yavlinsky were excluded (not registered as candidates).

In Astrakhan, the mayor’s election took place. According to official figures, they were won by a candidate from United Russia Mikhail Stolyarov, who gained 60% of the vote . His opponent candidate from Fair Russia Oleg Shein received the support of 30% of voters. Shein said that he would appeal the election results, since in many sites the voting results are falsified in favor of Stolyarov.

March 5, Monday

On Pushkinskaya Square, a rally "For honest elections" was held. According to the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 15 thousand people came to him. After the completion of the rally, the spontaneous action of the opposition began. Sergei Udaltsov, Alexey Navalny, Ilya Yashin and Ilya Ponomarev performed using the Fountain of the Pushkinsky Square as a rostrum. The riot police began strict detentions using batons - about 250 people got into autozaki in total. Ilya Ponomarev tried to prove to the police that the spontaneous action was a meeting of voters with the deputy, that is, with him, and therefore does not violate the law.

March 10, Saturday

On the New Arbat, the opposition rally took place and, disagree with the results of the presidential election. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 10 thousand people came to the action, according to the calculations of the organizers - up to 30 thousand. Observers speaking at the rally talked about massive violations in polling stations during voting and counting votes.

March 11, Sunday

In Kazan, 52-year-old Sergei Nazarov died, delivered to the hospital from the Dalniy police department . Before his death, the man said that the police who detained him on suspicion of theft raped him with a bottle of champagne. The incident served as the beginning of the investigation of the work of the Dalniye Department of Internal Affairs. Within a few days, many reports of torture in the department have received.

March 12, Monday

Pussy Riot participants to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova officially charged with hooliganism , committed by a group of persons based on religious hatred.

March 15, Thursday

Businessman Alexei Kozlov was repeatedly arrested , in September 2011, released by the Supreme Court on a recognizance not to leave. At the hearing in the Presnensky District Court, Kozlov was found guilty of embezzlement of shares of OJSC Iskozh and sentenced to five years in prison (taking into account his sentence, he remained to be held in the colony for another 1.5 years). Kozlov was taken into custody in the courtroom, in front of the building, activists arranged a spontaneous rally.

NTV showed the scandalous film "Anatomy of Protest" , which caused a stormy discussion - on Twitter for a long time in the leaders was the hashtag "#Nvlizht". The film claimed that the opposition rallies were brought to the opposition for money. Critics accused the “anatomy of protest” of distorting information, a fraud of facts and using quotes torn from context.

March 16, Friday

Oleg Shein, who lost in the mayor’s elections in Astrakhan, and several of his associates declared an unlimited hunger strike . The ex-candidate for mayor intended to appeal the election results, but the Ministry of Communications refused to provide him with the necessary videos from the sites.

The Tagansky court of Moscow authorized the arrest until April 24, 2012, the third participant in Pussy Riot, Ekaterina Samutsevich.

In Kazan, the police department “Dalniye” was disbanded , in which people were tortured. All management and some ordinary employees are removed from work, most of them were withdrawn to the staff before the end of the audit. According to the results of the scandal, the department was disbanded and renamed, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Asgat Safarov, resigned. 11 police officers became defendants in criminal cases of violence in Dalnoye.

March 18, Sunday

At the entrance to the Ostankino television center, an inconsistent action took place - spontaneous mass pickets “against the impudent lies of the NTV channel” . Participants expressed indignation at the film "Anatomy of Protest." About 100 people were detained, including Sergey Udaltsov and Boris Nemtsov.

March 26, Monday

Journalist Natalya Morar managed to come to Russia by personal decision of Dmitry Medvedev. The investigation of the Black Cashier of the Kremlin, published in The New Times, was led to a four -year ban on entering the country.

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