Following clashes with riot police in Mezhdurechensk, where some of the protesters blocked the railway tracks, an appeal appeared on blogs on behalf of the Union of Kuzbass Residents to fellow countrymen, the people of Russia and President Dmitry Medvedev.

20 years ago, on May 16, 1990, for the first time after the acceleration of the All -Russian Constituent Assembly by the Bolsheviks on January 19, 1918, the parliament democratically elected on a multi -party basis gathered. Despite the clumsy design - the congress and the bicameral Supreme Council - in its structure, the volume of powers and the mood of most deputies, he, throughout the post -October history of Russia, had the greatest signs of a full -fledged parliament.