In the Kremlin Not a reason for sorrow January 25, 2013 Alexander Podrabinek Horror - the direct elections of the governors are canceled! The public in shock - Medvedev returned the governor’s elections, and Putin selects them again. The puppet State Duma adopts a law according to which the regions will decide whether to choose governors in direct falsified elections or the regional parliament elected in the same falsified elections.

“A Just Russia”, which is losing its last drops of opposition and, accordingly, dignity, has delivered an ultimatum to its rebellious and, with the exception of leader Sergei Mironov, the most prominent members: Gennady and Dmitry Gudkov and Oleg Shein must choose within a month with whom they and where they are - in the Coordination Council of the Opposition or in the party. Ilya Ponomarev must make the same choice, but in relation to the leadership of the Left Front.

20 people were detained near the Duma building - these were participants in a picket against the adoption of a bill banning the promotion of homosexuality. Every time LGBT activists go out to protest, they are attacked by so-called Orthodox activists and get into fights with them. However, none of these adherents of heterosexual love were detained.

Yesterday, the Carnegie Moscow Center hosted the first seminar this year as part of the “Religion, Society and Security” program, which the expert community always looks forward to. Knowledge of the religious situation is extremely important for a correct assessment of the ethnopolitical development of the country.

In society Genius and a heap January 25, 2013 Viktor Shenderovich My uncle-Facebook was made up with me: several “Frends”, as part of the polemic around the Bashmet-Knikitin conflict, laid out the text from the magazine “However”-so I read it, fragrant. The name of the text is “a great poet, shut up alive. About the non -browned young Moritz, who wrote the songs of the handshake Nikitin. ” The author is Dmitry Lekukh.

In the Kremlin The results of the week. Russia in Davos January 25, 2013 Maxim Blot Russia brought to Davos the largest delegation for the entire time of the country's participation in the World Economic Forum, which officials spoke not without pride, packing suitcases for a trip to Switzerland. Interest in Russia will be heated by its upcoming chairmanship in the "big twenty", the same officials predicted.

The United States has decided to withdraw from the working group on civil society issues of the Russian-American Bilateral Presidential Commission. This was stated by US Undersecretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas Melia, as reported by Ekho Moskvy. According to him, this decision was made “in light of recent steps by the Russian government to restrict civil society.” As a matter of fact, the US step was quite expected.

In society The right film of the right director January 25, 2013 Boris Kolymagin Inadvertently warmed by the glory of the mammoth Boris Korchevnikov triumphs. The film-worship of the information war against the largest religious denomination in Russia fell into the acupuncture point of public consciousness. The reaction to him showed that viewers really need to understand what is happening inside the church fence.

In the Kremlin From the reception to the janitory, or the sunset of systemic liberalism in Russia January 25, 2013 Alexander Ryklin - You know, I think Chubais will soon be “closed” ... Here, with such an absolutely trivial maxim, our conversation began with one once very large boss, but now not at all in a poor person ...

On January 26, a race will take place in Moscow in support of political prisoners, primarily one of the accused in the Bolotnaya case, Sergei Krivov, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month. The race starts at 15.30 at the monument to Abai Kunanbayev on Chistoprudny Boulevard - this place became famous after the May Occupy protest camps.