As always, I got acquainted with great interest with the next article by Vladimir Putin “Russia concentrates - the challenges that we must answer”, published by Izvestia. It was an unusually exciting activity, especially since Dmitry Peskov said, the author wrote it with his own hands during the New Year holidays. Of course, it is obvious that Vladimir Putin was covered with a bunch of reference materials and memos, and did not sit all these days only in front of a clean sheet of paper.

It's a shame when the respected Georgy Satarov advises : “Read laws, gentlemen,” but he does not know how to read laws carefully and correctly. Indeed, the remarkable idea of ​​Dmitry Oreshkin, which should be called “vote against all” - in the presidential election to put checks against the names of all the candidates entered in the ballot, and thereby make the ballot invalid - unfortunately, only in the first round of the elections (according to the law it is called “General Elections”).

In the Kremlin Pig as an enemy of the progressive public January 18, 2012 Dmitry Oreshkin You will never guess in advance what kind of side you will not understand. But someone will not understand. He allowed himself to say in the “hedgehog” that in the first round of the presidential election, the strategy of thoughtful damage to ballots could be significantly more effective than in the Duma. From quite clear reasons.

Blogger Alexey Navalny and representative of the Russian Social Movement Vladimir Tor met with the head of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin. According to Interfax, the meeting took place in the Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains - Father Vsevolod is its rector.

On January 17, the next meeting of the Initiative Group, convened between rallies for fair elections on December 10 and 24, was held. The meeting was attended, in particular, by the co-chairman of “Solidarity” Boris Nemtsov, the head of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev, the leader of the Movement in Defense of the Khimki Forest Evgenia Chirikova, representatives of the Human Rights Center “Memorial”, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, “A Just Russia”, and nationalists.

“OCCUPY WALL STREET IS A PEOPLE-POWERED MOVEMENT THAT ... IS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE CORROSIVE Power of Major Banks”. It fights “Against the Richest 1% of PEOPLE THEAR WRILES OF ANFARI GLOBAL ECONOMY THAT IS FORECLOSING OUR FUTURE” - OCCUPY WALL STREET movement declares. According to Guardian and MSNBC (cable news channel), then “Exasperation with the State of Capitalism and Corporate Greed” is a new word of humanity in the struggle against composers.

On January 19, from 19.30 to 20.00, a procession will take place in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, who were killed three years ago. The procession will begin at house 12 on Nikitsky Boulevard and end in Novopushkinsky Square. Next there will be a rally that will last until 22.00. At the same time, the procession is agreed upon with the number of participants up to 300 people, and the rally - up to 1,500.