St. Petersburg activist, employee of the Anti-Discrimination Center "Memorial" Filipp Kostenko, who was detained on December 6 and served 15 days, was not actually released - he was immediately sentenced to a new arrest for 15 days. Kostenko was not even taken outside the administrative building.

As you know, Pushkin wrote a phrase from Count Nulin “Strange rapprochement” on the night of December 14, 1825. And this December, after almost two centuries, without fourteen, it occurred almost the most strange “rapprochement” in modern history: two rulers - Vaclav Gavel and Kim Jong Ir were almost simultaneously over the threshold of the world left.

It will not be difficult for Rogozin to be a good leader of the Defense-Industrial Complex. For the simple reason that it is quite difficult to lead him worse than Ivanov. During the 6 years that Sergei Borisovich oversaw the defense industry, he (with the full approval of Vladimir Putin) created a dozen united companies, which are caricatures of the Soviet defense-industrial ministries. In a market economy they are completely ineffective.

In the opposition We can be seen. The art of demand December 23, 2011 Daily Journal "Daily Journal" publishes political posters The open group of artists "we can see us." “To expand artistic participation in rallies. Make the participation of artists more effective. And who can and should do this as not actual artists? The artist can more than be just a spectator at a rally. Artists - we will be really relevant. Let's get out of the galleries to people!

On the evening of December 22, the next meeting of the Initiative Group to prepare for the rally on December 24 was held on Academician Sakharov Avenue. The idol of the dissatisfied public, Alexei Navalny, who was released from a special detention center, took part in it. At this meeting, as at the previous one, the greatest disagreements were caused by the draft resolution of the meeting and the list of speakers.

In society "Nothing has changed, the struggle continues" December 23, 2011 Vladimir Kara-Murza (ml) That is how the leader of the Party of Constitutional Democrats P.N. Milyukov for the signing of the royal manifesto on October 17, 1905.

In the opposition Opposition: a new challenge December 23, 2011 Alexey Makarkin The message of Dmitry Medvedev is a factor, of course, positive. The restoration of the governor’s elections, in fact, the removal of taboos from the registration of parties, the creation of public television, control over the costs of officials - the opposition required all this for years.

For what I love domestic bureaucrats is that their life is full of adventure and surprises. For them, everything that happens is a riot of elements that cannot be predicted. Whether it is the death of the oil platform, which began to drive into the storm, putting two crews on it in order to save. It is clear that fifty people died not because of the greed of bosses, but because of the raging elements. Whether it is snow, which, it must have fallen again, bastard, in Moscow in winter.

The example of the workers of Uralvagonzavod (the board of directors of which is headed by the prime minister’s colleague in the Dresden residency), who offered Putin help in dispersing the Moscow rallies, did not go unnoticed. The baton was picked up by a career KGB officer, the founder of the famous Ozero cooperative, who received Russian Railways from his management, Vladimir Yakunin. The Gudok newspaper published an appeal signed by him from ordinary railway workers.