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The rally of supporters of Putin, Medvedev and United Russia, dedicated to the Constitution Day, was supposed to become a "response" to the general fraud rally on December 10. The mobilization of the administrative resource did not save the event - on the contrary, made a laughing stock out of it.

In the plot of Channel One, Dmitry Rogozin teaches the protesters to squeeze a fist and breathe in full chest:

According to official figures, 25 thousand people took part in the 40 -minute rally - this is the official assessment of the number of a rally in Bolotnaya. This immediately gave Internet users a material for jokes about the "Churov" methods of counting.

Bloggers-Owners and correspondents of non-state media talk about 2-3, a maximum of 5-7 thousand participants. According to Oleg Kozlovsky, "the crowd consisted somewhere for 50 percent of the youth, which mainly came from other cities." "Another 30-40% were aunts and uncles for 40, given by trade unions or damaged by budget enterprises. The rest was a different strange paid mass like those who had not yet touched persecution of Tajik migrants," Kozlovsky writes.

Documentary certificates of the dishonest nature of the event appeared on the network:

Elena Racheva, an OpenSpace.ru correspondent, spoke with the threats to be threatened by threats.

A similar event with the participation of bonded students and state employees of EDRO held on December 7 on Pushkinskaya Square:

The most popular photo from a rally on Manezhnaya was a picture of Vasily Maksimov from Ridus News photo report :

Journalist Oleg Kashin accompanied this picture with the signature "Moscow students were unhappy with the opacity in the housing and communal services system" (this is a quote from an interview with one of the leaders of Osra Andrei Isaev, who figured out the motives of the rally on Bolotnaya).

You can watch workers from this picture on the video. Radio Liberty correspondent Dmitry Zykov asked the protesters on the arena why they came there:

After the rally, the most interesting began - payment of the mass. The Blogomega user published a revealing video on YouTube:

Other examples of paid protests can be viewed on faces-TV .

But there were sincere supporters of Putin and Osra at the rally. Outside of competition - publishers of the poetic newspaper "Beloved President" Brothers -twin Peter and Vladimir Nesterovs:

The pocket political scientist Alexei Zudin ends our review: "This rally of United Russia, organized in support of his leader, is more correct to consider the beginning of the election campaign of Vladimir Putin. Most that is represented by" United Russia "and which was created by Putin in a political sense, must convincingly declare themselves. And they did it."