28 people were convicted of participating in an unauthorized rally in support of political prisoners. The rally took place on December 19, a year after popular protests on the day of the presidential election were brutally suppressed. Currently, former presidential candidates Andrei Sannikov and Nikolai Statkevich, whom the authorities declared as the main instigators, remain in Belarusian prisons. At the same time, there has been no information about Sannikov for more than three weeks.

On December 21, an action was held near the Duma building, designed to show the deputies of the sixth convocation that they are illegitimate. In an action called “They will not pass! We will not allow impostors into parliament!” Several dozen people participated. It is clear that the 21st is not the 24th, but several dozen - not several tens of thousands, and in this case the authorities did not give their gracious permission to protest, so the protesters were detained.

In the Kremlin Empty chores December 21, 2011 Alexander Podrabinek By and large, the power is inexpressible, but her scent is excellent. Having panicked about the unexpected consolidation of society, the tandem makes maximum efforts to extinguish a wave of public protests. The meaning of their activity is to in any way to take the attention of society from those issues that were raised at December rallies throughout the country.

The LDPR is abandoning the Duma Committee on Religious Affairs for an obvious reason: it is not “resource-intensive.” The international committee will allow Zhirinovsky to at least provide the deputies of his faction with a large program of “parliamentary tourism” and will give the deputies the opportunity to earn a little money by lobbying for a positive image of the governments of other countries.

In the Kremlin Exposure session December 21, 2011 Vladimir Nadein Somehow suddenly and immediately Vladimir Putin fell upon corruption-and not with a shot, not by trifles, but by the main caliber and in headquarters. It is just right. This is how our swamp chores responded. For twelve years, Putin personally debugged a reliable state of state theft. For twelve years he was led by a cooperative "Lake" from a billion to a billion. And now - on you.

The Committee on Affairs of Public Associations and Religious Organizations, along with the Committee on Health Protection and the Committee on Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs, was among the Duma “portfolios” that representatives of the LDPR faction were asked to take, Interfax-Religion reports.

In the opposition A year after the arena December 21, 2011 Alexey Makarkin A year ago, fans and nationalists entered Manezhnaya Square. One part of society perceived this action with anxiety, the other with hope. However, since then, the positions of nationalists in Russian society have not intensified - on the contrary, recent events testify to their weakness.

The bloodshed that happened on December 16 in Zhanaozen in the west of Kazakhstan, of course, is a tragic page in the history of the state built by Nursultan Nazarbayev. It will stand on a par with December events in Alma-Ata 1986-the first serious spontaneous protest against the Soviet regime among such uprisings on the "national outskirts" of the USSR.