They made a fuss about Butovo and forgot about it, but passions have not subsided, but, on the contrary, are heating up. This morning, construction workers, police officers and private security officers again appeared in South Butovo. The workers tried to fence off the construction site, local residents rushed to defend their land - as a result, a serious brawl occurred. Now the situation has not been resolved: neither residents nor builders are going to go anywhere.

Since the “March of Dissent” in Samara was officially coordinated with the authorities, the valiant law enforcement officers have to come up with something new every time when detaining “Other Russia” activists. This morning in Samara, Denis Bilunov, executive director of the UCF, was detained right at the station; he has been in the police department for more than three hours. “Now they are copying the money that I had with me. They rewrite the numbers and take photographs.

“Our people,” who blocked the Estonian embassy in Russia for almost a week, decided to switch to the representation of the European Commission. On Wednesday, the “nashi” announced that on Monday they would begin an indefinite picket at the representative office in Moscow.

At about 2:00 p.m., the executive director of the UCF, Denis Bilunov, was detained at the train station in Samara, who had arrived there to prepare for the “March of Dissent.” Now he is being taken to the station's police department - the reasons for his detention are unknown, Bilunov's phone is not answering.

The State Duma promptly responded to the president’s request to “tighten penalties for “political extremism.” The new bill, which was promptly adopted in the first reading, provides for up to 6 years in prison for creating an extremist organization and up to four years for its ordinary members. Punishment for organizing mass riots committed “on the basis of ideological, political, racial, national or religious hatred” has been increased to 12 years.

The all-Russian protest action is a hunger strike of defrauded shareholders, which began in the second half of April in Moscow and the Moscow region and was picked up by comrades in misfortune in Ulyanovsk and Novosibirsk, supported in St. Petersburg, writes Novaya Gazeta. St. Petersburg shareholders began going hungry yesterday, May 16, right in the office of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Samara. Today he will meet guests here - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana will not attend this time. You don’t have to worry about Putin - he came and came. It’s more interesting what will happen to the activists of the “Other Russia” who are coming to Samara to participate in the “March of Dissent”.

The leader of the Vanguard of Red Youth movement, Sergei Udaltsov, was not even allowed to buy tickets to Samara. He was detained in Moscow, at the Kazansky station, when he was buying train tickets, Marina Litvinovich, a representative of the United Civil Front, reported this on Ekho Moskvy. According to her, Udaltsov was detained by FSB and Organized Crime Control officers.

As previously reported, on May 8 in Samara, “Limonovo” Ilya Guryev’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one. On the eve of the “March of Dissent,” which is scheduled to take place in Samara tomorrow, May 18, the Avtozavodsky District Court determined the sentence to be 6 months in prison for “violation of the regime.” Guryev’s mother decided to fight for her son and was going to write a cassation appeal.

Law enforcement agencies in Samara, apparently, have completely forgotten that in addition to the “will of the Kremlin,” there are also some laws in Russia. In the Samara metro they set up stands that looked very similar to the standard “The police are looking for them”, on the stands were hung photographs, names and dates of birth of “Limonovites”, ((http://abstract2001.livejournal.com/594967.html writes a member of the federal council of the United Front Marina Litvinovich)).

Samara law enforcement agencies continue to pursue the organizers of the “March of Dissent,” which will take place on May 18. They didn’t limit themselves to just one search in the apartment of Mikhail Gangan, a member of the “March” Organizing Committee; the Organized Crime Control Department officers also carried out searches in the apartments of his brother and grandmother. After which Mikhail was given a summons to appear in court on May 18.