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Voting The New Times
The New Times invites readers to choose winners in the following categories:
- Person of the Year
- Phrase of the Year
- Novel of the Year
- Criminal case of the year
- Animal of the Year
Animal of the Year
Goat
These animals became relevant after the characterization given by Prime Minister Medvedev to employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, who came with a search to director Pavel Kostomarov: “They are goats.”
Cat
One of the most important animals of the year. The most senior, Dorofey, the cat of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, this year decided on a futile attempt to escape from his master.
Rat
The heroine of the poster, with which, following the poet Dmitry Bykov, people went to protests: "Don't rock the boat, our rat is sick."
Dog
A puppy of a black Russian terrier (unofficially called "Stalin's dog"), which Vladimir Putin presented to his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez. Chavez called the dog "Russian"
Sterch
The fate of this species of cranes, which is endangered, worried President Putin so much that he decided on his own, using a hang glider, to lead their flock.
Person of the Year
Abay Kunanbaev
The monument to the poet, which only lovers of Kazakh lyrics knew about a year ago, has become a symbol of the protest movement and one of the most remarkable events of the year - #OkupayAbay.
** Mitya Aleshkovsky
Photographer and civil activist, one of the organizers of assistance to victims of the flood in Krymsk, launched the charity project “Need Help”, proving once again that civil society can successfully replace a non-functioning state.* * Alexander Bastrykin
** The head of the Investigative Committee, which became the main supplier of political news directly related to the opposition and its leaders, By the end of the year, Bastrykin’s employees earned the definition of “goats they are” from the Prime Minister, and Alexander Ivanovich himself became famous for promising an objectionable journalist to make his head his was separate and legs separately.
Patriarch Kirill
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, demonstrated the “miracle with the clock”, introduced the concept of “nanopulder” into legal use. Alexey Kudrin**
Former finance minister, the only high-ranking official from Putin's circle (he worked as a minister and deputy prime minister for 11 years) who took part in opposition rallies.
Arkady Mamontov
An example of a propagandist, forms public opinion based on the state order; brought back the word "blasphemer".
*Vitaly Milonov *
Legislator from the Northern capital, standing up for morality and morality, a fighter against homosexuals, Madonna and Lady Gaga. Alexey Navalny
The politician who received the largest number of votes this year in the elections to the Coordinating Council of the Opposition, two criminal cases and even two travel bans.
Anatoly Serdyukov
Former Minister of Defense, fired by Putin who never fires people from his inner circle, implicated in a high-profile corruption scandal, but retained his freedom; beloved of Evgenia Vasilyeva.
Ksenia Sobchak
The man, who was called "a symbol of Putin's glamor and the establishment", joined the protest movement, became one of the most popular faces of the opposition in a year, was honored with a search and two arrests.
Mikhail Prokhorov
Presidential candidate, candidate for leader of the Just Cause party, candidate for mayor of Moscow, candidate for shadow government coordinators, candidate for prime minister, candidate for speaking at an opposition rally on Sakharov Avenue. He received, according to official data, more than 5 million, and according to unofficial data - about 8 million votes in the presidential elections in Russia, he defeated Putin at many polling stations in Moscow and other cities.
Anna Federmesser
President of the charitable foundation for helping hospices "Vera", achieved a decision to build the country's first children's hospice.
Pussy Riot
The only Russian group that has become a global brand with the active participation of the Investigative Committee and judges.
Criminal case of the year
The case of Alexei Kozlov
On March 15, the Presnensky Court of Moscow, at a retrial, sentenced Alexei Kozlov to 5 years in prison and took him into custody; In September 2011, by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Kozlov was released from the colony-settlement where he was serving his term.
Farber case
Village teacher Ilya Farber was sentenced by the Tverskoy Court by a jury verdict to 8 years in prison for extortion. After many publications, on November 28, 2012, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the verdict.
Navalny case
Aleksey Navalny is charged in two criminal cases: the Kirovles case - "organization of embezzlement of other people's property on an especially large scale" and the case of the Main Subscription Agency LLC - "fraud on an especially large scale" and "money laundering".
Pussy Riot case
The case of the punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
"Swamp business"
The case of the “mass riots” on Bolotnaya Square during the “March of Millions” sanctioned by the authorities on May 6, 2012. 18 defendants pass through it, 12 of which are in jail, and one has already received a prison sentence.
The Anatomy of Protest-2 Case
The criminal case was initiated after the documentary "Anatomy of Protest-2" shown on NTV. Sergei Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhaev, Konstantin Lebedev are accused in the case; searches were carried out on a dozen more activists.
Magnitsky case
In October, the trial began in the case of the death of Sergei Magnitsky in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. Dmitry Kratov, doctor of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, is in the dock.
Novel of the Year
Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Yashin
Evgenia Vasilyeva and Anatoly Serdyukov
Avdotya Smirnova and Anatoly Chubais
Phrase of the Year
"Mother of God, drive Putin away"
"Bottle of Champagne"
"Raging Printer"
"You are nobody"
"Spiritual Lack"
"Links of the Fucking Chain"
"If not Putin, then a cat"
"Goats they"
"Don't rock the boat, our rat is sick"
"Cookies bought with State Department money"
"Smear the liver (of the protesters) on the asphalt"
"Let's die near Moscow"
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