On December 10, Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov was taken from the Botkin hospital, where he had previously been taken while serving administrative arrest, and sent to the Zyuzinsky court, which sentenced him to another 15 days for unauthorized leaving the place of serving administrative arrest. In court, Udaltsov, who, while in custody, went on a hunger strike, became dizzy, fell and lost consciousness, after which he was again sent to the hospital, this time to the 64th city hospital.

Lie They always lie. Often it ends in tragedies. Do you remember Beslan? The tragedy of our children began with their lies, when they publicly underestimated the number of captured hostages. Now they are many times underestimate the number of those who came to Bolotnaya. This will also end with a tragedy. But now for them. Because their fellow citizens who, with me were at a rally, heard their lies. I know that they were furious, like me.

I never went to rallies. Even in the late 80s, when he studied at the journalism department, and rallies came to us themselves, because the court of the journalism factory was mating with the Manezhnaya, not yet packed by the creations of Tsereteli and the one hundred thousand or more. But I did not go - neither then nor after. Because he did not want to merge with the crowd, because he believed that he should be responsible for his voice personally. And I have such an opportunity.

According to my sensations and assessment - both personal, accompanying, age -related, generational, and professional, observing, sociological, analytical - this day in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow (it’s not yet ready to talk about dozens of cities of the country, where similar encouraging phenomena arise on a different scale) has occurred and one of the most important events of the collective life in Russia of the last twenty years have occurred.

If in Moscow on Bolotnaya Square a rally against election fraud took place with virtually no incidents (one immediately subdued provocateur and one smoke bomb, as well as the demonstrative refusal of Eduard Limonov and “Other Russia” to join the others due to the transfer of the action from Revolution Square), then this The same cannot be said about a number of other Russian cities.

The website ovdinfo.org, dedicated to monitoring political arrests, has opened. As its creators write on the website, “the OVD-Info project was created so that all information about those detained in Moscow in recent days would be known to relatives, lawyers, and journalists. This helps the detainees themselves to be released painlessly and then fight for their rights in freedom.