January

January 29. Auto Rounder "For Fair Elections"

January 19. Process in memory of Markelov and Baburova

 ** January 4, Wednesday **

The leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, who was detained after the protest on the day of elections to the State Duma, was released and held under administrative arrest exactly a month. In conclusion, Udaltsov announced a dry hunger strike, because of which he ended up in the hospital.

January 10, Tuesday

In Moscow, a series of pickets was held in support of the activist of “Other Russia” Taisiya Osipova , convicted in Smolensk for ten years of colony on charges of drug trafficking. Comrades Osipova claim that the case is completely fabricated.

January 16, Monday

Several people of “strong physique” beat the Novye Fieldman, journalist of Novye Gazeta , who discovered falsification when collecting signatures for the nomination of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region Dmitry Mezentsev in the President of Russia.

January 18, Wednesday

The program “Voter League” was published , which should monitor compliance with the electoral rights of citizens. The founders of the League included representatives of the non -partisan creative intelligentsia, including Boris Akunin, Dmitry Bykov, Elizabeth Glinka, Tatyana Lazarev, Leonid Parfenov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Yuri Shevchuk.

January 19, Thursday

In Moscow, the anti -fascists held a procession in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova , executed on the street. Prechistenka in Moscow January 19, 2009.

January 23, Monday

Vladimir Putin proposed to introduce criminal liability for violation of migration rules and registration standards. In his opinion, it is necessary to strengthen "intelligible police functions and powers of migration services."

January 27, Friday

The leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky and the governor of the Irkutsk region Dmitry Mezentsev was officially denied registration with candidates for the president of Russia. The reason for the refusal to Yavlinsky was named a large amount of marriage among signature sheets. Mezentsev simply failed to collect the required number of signatures.

January 29, Sunday

In Moscow, a rally “for honest elections” was held , the participants of which managed to “close” the garden ring. The action, called the White Ring, was organized on the initiative of the Voter League and collected several thousand participating cars. Cars were decorated with white ribbons, flags, stickers, balloons. The police prepared for the run: evacuators and buses with law enforcement officers pulled onto the garden.

January 31, Tuesday

The World Court of the Tver District of Moscow reduced to six months the term of punishment of another Russia activist Dmitry Putenikhin , who was sentenced to seven months of correctional labor for dousing the prosecutor, who was charging in the case of events on Manezhnaya Square on December 11, 2010.

Photos: Denis Vyshinsky/Kommersant, RIA Novosti