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The leaders of the Omsk SPS list in the State Duma elections - Nikolai Efimkin, Vladimir Shirshov and Tatyana Aleksashina - went on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of law enforcement agencies. The reason was yesterday’s arrest of the circulation of regional leaflets, as well as the earlier arrest of the circulation of the SPS newspaper “Problema Number One”. Activists are going to go on hunger strike until the leaflets and newspapers are returned. Today, another liberal party has also encountered problems: in Chelyabinsk, the authorities banned the pre-agreed action of the Yabloko party, “Let’s stop the killings in the army.” The ban is argued by the fact that the details were not stated in the notification. “We planned to display five coffins, five wreaths and a huge banner saying “Stop the killings in the army” in the main square of the city. Maybe the means are shocking, but this is exactly the way we would like to draw the attention of the townspeople to this problem,” said the organizer of the action, Alexey Tabalov. In fact, in order to understand who the authorities don’t like so much in these elections, you can even not to know about the confiscated leaflets and prohibited actions. Just watch the program “Judge for yourself” on Channel One in the evening, in which several famous men, answering the question “Is revenge of the 90s possible?”, spend an hour figuring out which of them loves Putin more (periodically reminding the viewer that he definitely needs to vote.) Or stumble upon an inserted episode in an innocent program about sorcerers and psychics (on NTV) with an interview with Nemtsov ten years ago with a voice-over commentary that, supposedly, now he is against the cult of personality, but then look at what he said. At the same time, videos of “small” parties are being taken off the air for the fact that they contain “negative propaganda”, which is now prohibited. The only thing that is not clear is why try so hard if, as Interfax reports, according to polls on Today, two parties are in the lead: “United Russia” and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Even Zhirinovsky and Spravedlivaya are left behind; why fight SPS and Yabloko?