On December 23 at 11.30 a picket of Khamovniki residents will take place on Pushkinskaya Square in defense of their rights and in defense of the rights of their children. Instead of gifts for the New Year, the children of Khamovniki will receive from the municipality and the head of the executive committee of the local branch of the United Russia party, deputy Dmitry Basharov, an offer to leave the premises of the art studio “The Birth of a Thing” (3rd Frunzenskaya 12).

In the Kremlin Type manifest December 22, 2011 Sergey Gogin It is obvious that the outgoing President Medvedev tugged his last message to the Federal Assembly from the slogans of the opposition. It is also obvious: if there were no thousands of rally “for honest elections” on Bolotnaya Square on December 10, there would be no reformist fuse in the president’s speech.

In society The genealogy of Russian freedom. "Who will come in handy for the zemstvo" December 22, 2011 Nikita Sokolov On December 11, 1610, False Dmitry II, who went hunting in the vicinity of his “Stolki City” Kaluga, was killed by the chief of his own guard Peter Urusov. This news almost everywhere in Rus' caused a sigh of relief. With the death of the impostor, it seemed that the last obstacle to the cessation of the great troubles disappeared.

Vladimir Petrovich Lukin rightly noted that the authorities still listen to the demands of the people. Understands his aspirations. After all, what were the main demands put forward by the protesters at Bolotnaya? Correct: “Bring back fair elections!” and “Bring back snowy winter!” Less than two weeks have passed, and half of these requirements have not only been met, but even exceeded. And as for the second half... Well, not all at once! After all, less than two weeks have only passed.

The sensation of the day was the appointment of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as head of the Presidential Administration. The question is which president. The current one who is leaving office? Four years ago, Ivanov and Medvedev were vying for the position of successor. Putin chose Medvedev. Which hardly contributed to the establishment of good relations between the current president and the newly appointed head of the Administration.

Around Russia Q.E.D December 22, 2011 Arkady Moshes "The European parliament does not mean anything to me ...". Is it possible to imagine this or similar phrase in the lips of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych? It is unlikely, not not publicly. Actually, this explains the fundamental difference in EU relations with his two “strategic partners” in eastern Europe - Russia and Ukraine, demonstrated by summits in Brussels and Kyiv, respectively.

In society Nationalism of the spirit and nationalism of the task December 22, 2011 Julia Latynina Last Sunday, St. Petersburg was running in the new Kremlin technology for the fight against rallies. I mean the Nazis who were torn to the rostrum, and the “nurses” who boasted the speakers.

An event called “parliamentary elections”, which, as expected, had nothing to do with free and honest elections, but was a play of thimbles according to the established rules, sharply aggravated the relationship between the government and the part of the society that the zombie and other pocket media failed to frave and which considers himself citizens. It is citizens, and not the population, as this would like the authorities and its service.

For now, President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed a number of changes to the country's political system. First, to return to the election of governors “by direct voting of the residents of the regions,” he said in his Address to the Federal Assembly. Let us remember that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin just spoke about the possibility of giving citizens the opportunity to elect governors again during a direct line with the population.