Putin appointed acting Prime Minister Zubkov

Vladimir Putin, who took office, assigned the duties of the head of government on the first deputy prime minister Viktor Zubkov, said Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov. "The corresponding document was signed by Putin," RIA Novosti quotes Peskova.

I.O. The Prime Minister, in turn, should sign a certificate of government resignation-according to the Constitution, the government complicates the powers of the new head of state. Then the president has two weeks to offer the lower house of the parliament of the candidate for the post of chairman of the new government.

On Monday, Putin took office for the third time. Putin put his right hand on the Constitution and made an oath, after which the head of the Constitutional Court announced his entry as an eye. "The inauguration of the new president is always a new stage in the history of the country. Russia was experienced many times for strength, and we had to repulse the aggressors. I wish Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin success in the position of president of Russia," Dmitry Medvedev, who was departing from the post, said at the inauguration ceremony.

Putin in his first presidential speech promised to "strengthen democracy and expand the participation of citizens in the management of the country."

Participants in the protests "For honest elections" called on fellow citizens to gather 10 hours closer to Manezhnaya Square. The hashtag #Manezhka in the morning came out in the first place in the list of trends of the Russian Twitter segment. The action "White City for Honest Power", announced in social networks, was conceived as the continuation of the February "White Circle". Citizens with white ribbons were going to walk in the center of Moscow, including along the path of the Putin motorcade.

The movement along the New Arbat from the Government House to the Kremlin was blocked, many police officers, soldiers of internal troops and special services were pulled into the center. The outputs from the lanes along the path of the motorcade were blocked by metal fences.

On the eve of the Moscow Center, the police brutally dispersed the many thousands of anti -Putin action. After the Million Million, the police closed the passage to Bolotnaya Square, where the agreed rally was supposed to take place. Alexei Navalny and Sergey Udaltsov began a sedentary strike at the shkator cinema. Then the clashes of the protesters with riot police began. Dozens of protests and security forces were injured, more than 600 people were detained.