Approximately 30 representatives of the Left Front coalition marched through Red Square on February 5. They carried a banner “Fire the government”, chanted slogans “Government resign”, “We do not trust the government”, “Protect workers from layoffs”, and burned fireworks.

From February 6 to 13 (except for the weekend of February 9), a project for the development of the area will be demonstrated in the Central House of Artists at the entrance to the State Tretyakov Gallery, which includes future buildings for the Central House of Artists and the State Tretyakov Gallery. On February 24, a hearing dedicated to this project will be held at the State Tretyakov Gallery. Visitors to the Central House of Artists can vote for or against the project.

Gilani Shepiev, former vice-mayor of Grozny, was killed on the night of February 5 in Moscow. He was shot at approximately one in the morning near the entrance of house No. 21 on Krylatskie Hills Street, where he had lived since 2006. In 2004–2006, Shepiev supervised the security forces in the Grozny administration.

Our demands are due to the fact that representatives of the Left Front consider the government’s actions to protect citizens from the crisis to be ineffective. The course the government is taking will, by definition, not be able to protect the majority of citizens from mass layoffs and, accordingly, from a sharp drop in living standards.

On February 11 at 18.00 in the bookstore “Biblio-Globus” (Myasnitskaya 6/3 building 1) there will be a meeting with the winner of the “Enlightenment” award Marina Svanidze. Marina Svanidze received the prize, established in support of popular science literature by Dmitry Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation, for her two-volume work “Historical Chronicles with Nikolai Svanidze,” which was based on the script for the series of author’s programs of the same name.

In uniform Open letter to Yulia Latynina February 5, 2009 Murad Musaev On December 29, 2008, the “Daily Journal” published an article by Yulia Latinina, dedicated to the trial in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. For the most part, the article is devoted to the activities of one of the defenders in this process Murad Musaev. I begin from the fact that behind the “daily magazine” are people for whom the concepts of justice, the presumption of innocence, etc.

This photo came to me by mail from a Pakistani journalist friend. It didn’t immediately dawn on me what was shown in the photograph – the frame was taken with a mobile phone camera. But then I realized that this was the disfigured face of Buddha from Jahanabad, one of the most famous ancient monuments of Pakistan. “They were there again,” the caption read. Who these “they” are is clear without explanation – fighters of radical Islamic groups.

Our state was preparing to present a national report on the state of human rights in Russia to the UN on Wednesday as if it were a large-scale special operation. The delegation was headed by Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov. And, towering head and shoulders above Russian officials, he gave out the final instructions half an hour before the start of the meeting.