In society Transit (4) November 28, 2007 George Satarov Before continuing, I would like to thank the forum participants at www.ej.ru , who discussed previous articles. It seemed to me that it was an interesting and intellectually rich discussion. I admit, I hesitated whether this cycle of articles to start and whether to do it as I conceived and what it turns out. I am glad that the reaction is interested and adequate.

This week we will, apparently, see a televised address by the president not as president, but as number one on one of the party lists, and this will draw a line under V.V.’s election activity. Putin. However, if this speech does not contain anything meaningfully sensational, and judging by the leaked hints, it will not sound, then the results of this activity can be summed up now. Let us leave aside as an unimportant legal assessment of V.V.’s speech. Putin at a rally ("puting") in Luzhniki.

Viktor Shenderovich was taken away literally ten minutes after the start of his solo picket. Provocateurs of the “Nashi” movement are still on duty next to the pre-trial detention center on Petrovka, where Garry Kasparov is supposedly being held. As soon as someone goes out on a single picket, the “nashi” run out with the UCF flag and line up next to them, and this is a signal for the police to arrest the person who went on the picket.

In the Kremlin Putin web November 28, 2007 Zoya Svetova Madness and hysteria in the country. The regional branches of United Russia do not have enough money to conduct an election campaign. According to the media, the representatives of this party “Shakalyat”, begging “material assistance” from large companies for electoral campaigns. The refusal is regarded “as a refusal to support President V.V.

In Moscow, representatives of several media outlets were detained who were covering a single picket near the building of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate in support of the leader of the United Front, Garry Kasparov. Among those detained are also the leader of the Yabloko youth party, Ilya Yashin, and a member of the federal council of the United Front, Marina Litvinovich.

Everyone has already understood that unless absolutely necessary, it is not worth getting together for more than two. Therefore, supporters of Garry Kasparov, who is serving five days of administrative arrest, decided to hold single pickets.