The search for historical parallels is an entertaining thing, but dubious. All analogies are lame, history is not repeated, not to enter the same river twice. But still there is a great temptation to look for a roll call of plots, characters, especially during the crisis. In Russian history, there really is a certain cessation, cyclic repetitions of the tides of reforms and castings of counter -reforms, public depression and euphoria.

On December 19, the second meeting of the Organizing Committee of the rally for fair elections on December 24 was held on Academician Sakharov Avenue. Initially it was supposed to take place on December 16, but did not take place - the host party refused at the last moment. The current meeting was held at the editorial office of the Sobesednik magazine and broadcast on the Ekho Moskvy website. The composition of the Organizing Committee has expanded during this time.

Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov was transferred from intensive care to the therapeutic department of the 64th hospital. Let us remember that this was preceded by a long dry hunger strike, which he held since December 4, when he was detained and accused of jaywalking (and later, on December 10, he was sentenced to an additional 15 days of arrest for leaving his place of detention without permission).

The protracted process over Yulia Tymoshenko and everything that happens in the last weeks around him is most reminiscent of the amateur absurd theater, and the most ungrateful thing is to look for intelligible logic in this absurdity. Nevertheless: in addition to the irrational revenge in this “game of the regionals”, at first there was at least some rational moment against Tymoshenko-the Ukrainian government thus tried to create some arguments in gas auction.

...well, just like that, just in case. The simple word “faggots”, uttered in the voice of Nemtsov on the nasty criminal film of the FSB-Gabrelyanov, in the original, before editing the film, referred not to Akunin and Parfenov, but to Surkov and Co. - which, it should be noted, is much closer to the truth as in the direct so in a figurative sense...

Since December 10, Moscow is seething, a variety of forces are involved in the discussion of post -breed events: protests against the dishonest counting of votes, the detention of political activists, and tactics of further actions in relation to the authorities.

Activist of the Voina art group Pyotr Verzilov, who recently left a special detention center, was taken by force to the military registration and enlistment office. They broke into his apartment and took him to the Golovinsky military registration and enlistment office.