Three people were detained in Belarus for discussing protests on the Vkontakte network. One of them, Sergei Pavlyukevich, was the administrator of the group “For a sluggish Belarus” and created the group “March of Millions”, where about 40 thousand people signed up. Pavlyukevich’s computer was confiscated and the group was deleted.

In the opposition What happens to Russia? June 6, 2011 Alexander Podrabinek The devil lies in the details, and the lifestyle consists of the events not by a global scale. In some not too dramatic incident as in a drop of water, the whole today's Russian world will suddenly affect. The spiritual, cultural and political state of power and society will sparkle in this unpretentious episode of our daily life, and it will become clear who is worth what.

Around Russia Our friend FIFA June 6, 2011 Anton Oresh I think that our country has no time to make friends so tightly with the International Football Federation (FIFA). Look at what has happened in this organization only over the past six months.

I was rewatching the wonderful film “Mimino” out of the corner of my eye - and shuddered in the court scene, because it seemed that I recognized the landscape overlooking the Moscow River... This was filmed in Khamovnichesky! A fair, thoughtful judge, an intelligent elderly prosecutor - wow, what semantic volume a simple topographic reference can give to an action!

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a round table with journalists that there is no “absolute justice” in the issue of issuing so-called permits for holding mass events - this is, they say, “a matter of political power.” “A political force that can bring out tens and hundreds of thousands of people to solve pressing problems is one thing. The communists, for example, gather a lot of people for their demonstrations, and we ensure they block off streets and squares.

Organized by the leader of the Center group, Vasily Shumov, a concert in support of art critic Artemy Troitsky, against whom two criminal cases have been opened plus two lawsuits - all for unflattering statements - will be held at the HLEB club on Zvenigorodskoe Highway. Shumov previously reported on his blog that the Central House of Artists, where the concert was originally planned, refused to hold the event. The concert will take place on June 10.

In the opposition Ordinary collaboration June 6, 2011 Harry Kasparov The main problem of Russian liberalism today is the identification of liberal theory with the names of homegrown "liberal" reformers. The fact that the "founding fathers" of Russian liberalism did not perceive civil freedoms and liberal political discourse as a necessary condition for the development of Russia constantly falls out of the field of view of the layman.

In uniform And the warehouses are burning and burning ... June 6, 2011 Alexander Golts For ten days, two ammunition storage facilities burned in Russia. At first, in Bashkiria, the Solder soldier, according to the official version, threw the sleeve on the floor from the projectile with a detonator capsule, as a result of which ammunition was detonated. The cause of the explosions in the arsenal in Udmurtia has not been established, military experts suspect arson.