I am still at the Moscow State University police department. They tell me that they will now take me to the magistrate’s court of this district. I am charged with violating the rules of holding a public event. My phone was taken away from me, only now I was able to get it back, although the three hours since the arrest had long elapsed.

On Friday, March 6, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had dinner in Geneva, where they discussed the state of Russian-American relations. Mrs. Clinton brought with her a souvenir in the form of a yellow box with a red button and the words “reset” in English and Russian. In a symbolic gesture, Clinton and Lavrov pressed the button together, launching a new phase in bilateral relations.

Four activists of the opposition youth movement “Defence” were detained on March 11 in Moscow near the main building of Moscow State University. Oleg Kozlovsky, Ilya Mishchenko, Maxim Tarlykov and Dmitry Ivanov used a megaphone to call on students to take part in the Day of Dissent on March 12. The police detained them at about 12.00, accusing them of holding an uncoordinated picket, and took them to the nearest police department.

On March 11, the Independent Press Center held public hearings dedicated to the tragedy in the Surgut colony, where on December 17 last year a convict died from beatings. Before the hearings began, a dummy bomb was discovered near the press center buildings. Then, already during the hearing, three unknown persons pelted those present with eggs. One of the young people was detained by the participants of the press conference and handed over to the police.

As the united democratic movement Solidarity learned, on March 11, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Delovoy Sochi, Valentin Putevskoy, was fired. He was one of those who signed an appeal calling on Boris Nemtsov to run as a candidate for the post of mayor of Sochi. On March 12, a visiting meeting of Solidarity is due to take place, at which a decision will be made on the nomination of Nemtsov.

A scandal is raging in Russia. Scandal with a Capital S, destructive, loud, omnipresent. What caused such heated discussion in the era of the financial crisis? Perhaps a remark from Prime Minister Putin, who drives an armored Mercedes, that anyone who drives a foreign car at a time of crisis is a traitor to the motherland? Maybe the public was finally shocked by the news that in December the owner of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, converted his $4.5 billion debt to VEB into rubles?

For two weeks, the city of Berdsk near Novosibirsk, due to the decision of the Ministry of Defense, disband the 67th separate team of the GRU special forces, one of the most elite military intelligence units in the city. Meanwhile, the crisis has nothing to do with this decision. For a year, at least since March last year, rumors have been discussing in the Special Forces about the disbandment of three GRU special forces: the 67th, 12th Asbestov and 3rd Samara.

That is the question. And what exactly to sing. The Georgian group “Stefane and 3G” wanted to bring the song “We Don’t Wanna Put In” to the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Already from the title of the song you can understand that Georgians either don’t want to go where it’s bad, or they just don’t like Vladimir Vladimirovich PutIn. Maybe both together. What to do? You can't put pressure through diplomatic channels. You cannot appeal to the fraternal conscience of the Georgian people.