August 18 in blogs on PublicPost

On the roads of Chelyabinsk, inscriptions appeared as reminders of the “successes” of the United Russia party in the construction and repair of roads. Does this remind you of anything?

While the fate of the Pussy Riot prisoners was being decided in Moscow, protests were taking place all over the world in their defense. Maria Plion attended the picket in Hamburg and shared her impressions with PublicPost.

“Exactly the same persecution should be organized against Abbot Timofey as against Pussy Riot.” The news that abbot Timofey got into an accident while drunk forced Vladimir Mekhanikov to contact the prosecutor’s office : “I am a believer, and the fact of the accident deeply hurt my religious feelings, the feelings of a citizen and a lawyer. This act of the abbot insults me, my faith, now I am ashamed for your religion."

“Magically, the initiation of a criminal case against the second secretary of the Novocherkassk city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation coincided with the beginning of the active phase of the election campaign to the State Duma...” Roman Revunov talks about the politically motivated criminal prosecution of the father of many children, V. Zhuravlev.

On the eve of the Olympics in Sochi, illegal construction of the Kudepsta Thermal Power Plant began. Local residents could not sit idly by and organized a protest: they put on “NO to the construction of the Kudepsta Thermal Power Plant” T-shirts and gathered in front of the city administration building. Read the report by Maria Ukhova to see what came of it.