The oppositionists were accused of all sorts of things! In all sorts of bad inclinations, connections with the insidious United States, connections with malicious Georgia. All that remains is to convict him of connections with Muslim extremists. And then it happened.

The convicted members of the punk band Pussy Riot were transported to the place where they were serving their sentences, one of their lawyers, Mark Feigin, told Interfax. “We contacted the administration of the pre-trial detention center where Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were kept, and we were informed that the girls had been sent to serve their sentences in a colony,” said M. Feigin.

In the Kremlin Professionals of patriotism October 22, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich They did it again! In my memory, this is a forty case ... or only thirty -ninth? I lost my account. In short, Putin has just signed a decree on the creation in the Presidential Administration of the Office, which is responsible (drum fraction) "for the development of patriotic education and strengthening the spiritual and moral foundations of society." А-а-а-а!..

Assistant to Duma deputy from A Just Russia Ilya Ponomarev Leonid Razvozzhaev, who was taken from Kiev by unknown people on October 19 immediately after he wrote an application for political asylum, was taken to Moscow, accused of preparing to organize mass riots and arrested for two months . He is currently in Lefortovo, as is his accomplice, RKRP-RPK activist Konstantin Lebedev. Razvozzhaev’s lawyer Violetta Volkova learned about the charges against him and his arrest retroactively.

Around Russia Passing "Freedom" October 22, 2012 Inna Bulkina On Sunday, October 14, exactly two weeks before the elections to many thousands of march in Kyiv, Ukrainian nationalists took place. The march was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA). From the university square and the monument to Taras Shevchenko to Mikhailovskaya Square was a column with red-black banners and portraits of Stepan Bandera.

SK started a criminal case against Udaltsov on the fact of fragments of the conversation between the leader of the “Left Front” by Sergey Udaltsov with the head of the Georgian Defense Committee Givi Targamadze. Before making a verdict, let's study the facts that are at our disposal. Let me remind you that the authorities hold the opposition leaders under a microscope: their correspondence and conversations regularly merge into the press through Lifenews and other Lubyanka PR filians.

I looked in good faith and listened to the debate in the coordination council of the opposition. They did not upset me and did not impress me. If someone needs a COP-160 thousands of thousands, then it means to be so. I also had my own candidates, opposite the names of which I am ready to bet: Sobchak, Katz, Parkhomenko, Dzyadko, Kozyrev, Anshakov. Will this change the situation in the country as a whole? Will the opposition noticeably strengthen, will it attract additional forces to its side?

I don’t know if the shortest jokes are registered in the Guinness Book of Records, but if they are, then I have an application. The anecdote was published by the press service of the State Duma. The anecdote is this: on October 22 at 10 o’clock in the State Duma there will be parliamentary hearings “On problems with respect for human rights in the United States of America.”