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May
May 13. "Walking of writers" in Moscow boulevards
May 3, Thursday
Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov . The next day, May 4, Churov handed Vladislav Surkov an honorary sign “For Merit in the organization of elections”.
May 4, Friday
The Bashkir police took off the train and detained the opposition activists who were heading to Moscow to the Million Marsh. In Rostov, Astrakhan, Smolensk, Samara, Ryazan, Tver, the police also hindered the activists who went to march.
May 5, Saturday
In St. Petersburg, the first verdict was issued under the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of homosexuality ”. LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev was fined 5 thousand rubles.
May 6, Sunday
In Moscow, a “Million March” took place , which grew into a clash of police officers with demonstrators. During forceful acceleration, some protesters were injured. According to official figures, more than 400 people were detained, many of them were sentenced to various terms of arrest. According to the ATS-Info, 650 protesters were detained.
May 7, Monday
In the Kremlin, the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who officially took over the post of president, took place . A few hours before the cessation of his powers, the previous President Dmitry Medvedev gave Putin the last instructions, in particular, asked him to amend the law on rallies.
OMON employees dispersed several spontaneous assemblies of the opposition , including on Manezhnaya Square, in the area of pure ponds and on Nikitsky Boulevard. The opposition was detained not only on the street, in particular, the Jean-Jacques cafe on Nikitsky Boulevard was defeated. In total, about 300 people were detained during accelerations.
May 8, Tuesday
At night, the opposition leaders announced the beginning of “unlimited folk festivities” in Moscow boulevards . Throughout the day, activists moved around the city, riot police from time to time dispersed the accumulation of people and conducted detentions. According to official figures, about 60 people were sent to the city police department. Protesters formed on Chistoprudny Boulevard at the monument to the poet Abay Kunanbaev, a spontaneous camp, called "Occupyabai".
May 9, Wednesday
Alexey Navalny and Sergey Udaltsov were sentenced to 15 days of arrest for disobedience to police officers . Both were detained the day before during the exposure of the “unlimited festivities” of the Moscow opposition in Moscow.
May 11, Friday
United Russia proposed to significantly tighten the legislation on rallies , and the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the magazine of the poster again stated that "for the wounded riot police, it was necessary to smear the liver of the protesters on asphalt."
May 13, Sunday
Thousands of citizens went to the unauthorized “Walk of Writers” along the boulevards of Moscow, organized by famous writers. During festivities, no one was detained.
The Moscow police canceled the license for weapons of the private security enterprise Abtan, owned by the State Duma deputy from Just Russia, Gennady Gudkov.
May 14, Monday
The arrest, Sergei Udaltsov was hospitalized as a result of a dry hunger strike he declared.
In Zhukovsky near Moscow, a camp of ecologists was demolished , which prevented the cutting of the Tsagov forest for the construction of the highway.
May 15, Tuesday
The Basmanny Court of Moscow ordered the Internal Affairs Directorate and the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow to eliminate the opposition camp on Chistoprudny Boulevard , as well as to restore purity and order in the district. The police said the camp will be cleaned in the morning of the next day.
May 16, Wednesday
At about 6 a.m., the police dispersed the camp on Chistoprudny Boulevard , while about 20 people were detained. The opposition moved to the square on Kudrinskaya Square. The police did not disperse them, but in the end of the evening delayed about 30 activists for an “unauthorized distribution of food”.
May 17, Thursday
One of the leaders of "Solidarity" Ilya Yashin, detained the day before on Kudrinskaya Square, was sentenced to ten days of arrest . That evening, several more people were detained on Kudrinskaya Square, including the leader of the movement in defense of the Khimki forest, Yevgeny Chirikov.
The international human rights organization Amnesty International announced Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov as prisoners of conscience. According to human rights activists, both were placed under arrest for non -violent defending their rights.
May 18, Friday
Vladimir Putin proposed the post of authorized representative of the president in the Ural Federal District, the head of the Uralvagonzavod workshop Igor Kholmansky . The Kholmansky became known after during the “direct line” with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in December 2011 he proposed to come “with men” to Moscow and disperse the opposition rallies.
May 19, Saturday
In late night, riot police dispersed the opposition camp on Kudrinskaya Square, delaying about 30 activists in. The opposition moved to the monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, where the police took about a dozen people. In Zhukovsky near Moscow, police detained 20 ecologists protesting against the deforestation of the Tsagov forest.
May 25, Friday
Six police officers injured during the force of the Million Millions force on May 6 were awarded two -room apartments. The housing was received by four riot police officers and two fighters of the 2nd operational regiment of the Moscow police.
May 26, Saturday
In St. Petersburg, the police stopped the “Mit toys” in the Alexander Garden - Plush animals with slogans in the paws of law enforcement officers considered an unauthorized demonstration.
May 27, Sunday
The police dispersed the Picket of LGBT activists at the buildings of the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow City Hall. About 40 people were detained, and this company was both activists themselves and the “Orthodox banners” who tried to attack them.
May 28, Monday
In the case of “mass riots” on May 6, the first persons appeared in Bolotnaya Square - student Alexander Dukhanin, businessman Maxim Luzyanin and unemployed Andrei Barabanov. All three were charged with participation in unrest and violence against police officers. Barabanov and Luzyanin are placed in a pre -trial detention center, Dukhanin - under house arrest.
May 29, Tuesday
Alexei Navalny announced the launch of the “good car of Pravda” - a mechanism with which network users will be able to tell Russians about abuses and corruption in power. The Investigative Committee, in turn, announced the resumption of a criminal case against Navalny. Politics are accused of that in 2009 it contributed to the predation of more than 10 thousand cubic meters of forest products in the Kirov region.
May 31, Thursday
More than 120 people were detained during the acceleration by the police inconsistent campaign “Strategy 31” on the Triumphal Square . The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow reported that these people "tried to prevent the entrance and exit of Muscovites from the metro."
Photo: Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times