In St. Petersburg and Moscow, many polling stations ran out of ballots two hours before closing, media reported. “Oh, this is something new: at polling station number 478 in Moscow, all 2,500 ballots have run out. People vote here en masse by absentee ballot. , a voting member of the TEC And in Lianozovo, police arrested Pavel Elizarov (he is an activist of Solidarity).

Leader of the Voina art group Leonid Nikolaev was detained at an opposition rally near Gostiny Dvor , reports Fontanka.Ru . According to a Fontanka correspondent, Nikolaev told reporters that, despite the criminal prosecution, he is not going to flee Russia . “Only after Putin,” he said. Earlier it became known that the police detained more than 50 participants in the opposition rally taking place near Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg . Among those detained is the leader of the St.

Two Radio Liberty correspondents were not allowed into the building of the Central Election Commission, having their accreditation taken away right at the entrance. As correspondent Danila Galperovich told Gazeta.Ru, at the entrance to the CEC his accreditation was taken away, but after his call to the CEC press secretary, his accreditation was returned. “At first, the FSO (Federal Security Service.

Former girlfriend of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Matt Kemp, singer Rihanna once again changed her image for the filming of a new video. This time the artist tried on the image of a platinum blonde. Work on the next video for the song You Da One took place in London at the beginning of the week. The 23-year-old singer will appear before the audience for the first time as a platinum blonde.

At polling station No. 2945 in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district in Moscow, journalists, among whom was a Gazeta.Ru correspondent, stopped the stuffing of ballots with the boxes already ticked opposite No. 6 (United Russia party - Gazeta.Ru). As a Gazeta.Ru correspondent said, two days before the elections, a person who introduced himself as Viktor said on the phone that there would be massive falsification of ballots at polling stations in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district.

— 04.12.2011 03:21 — In the Magadan region, as of ten in the morning local time, 6.54% of voters voted in the elections of deputies to the State Duma, said the chairman of the electoral commission of the Magadan region, Vladimir Epifanov. The election campaign in Kolyma this year is “a little more active” than in the elections of State Duma deputies in 2007. This, according to Epifanov, is facilitated by good clear weather and “high”, by Kolyma standards, temperature: in Magadan it is only -2.

— 04.12.2011 09:55 — Kingston: Arshavin called me a monkey PHOTO: ghanasoccernet.com Ghana national team midfielder Larry Kingston, known for his performances for Krylia Sovetov, Terek and Lokomotiv, spoke about manifestations of racism in Russian football. “Do you know Arshavin from Arsenal? So, when I played for Lokomotiv, and he for Zenit, Arshavin called me a monkey on the field,” Kingston reports Ghanasoccernet.com as saying .

04 December 2011, 22:14 News In the Khabarovsk Territory, United Russia gained 38%, in 2007 it was 61% In the Khabarovsk Territory, 95% of the ballots were processed, United Russia received 37.62% of the votes (in 2007, the party received 60.67% in Khabarovsk - Gazeta.Ru). This is followed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 20.7%, LDPR - 19%, A Just Russia - 14.21%. The remaining parties received less than 5% of the votes, the regional election commission told Interfax.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin admitted that the results of the State Duma elections , in which, judging by the first data, United Russia significantly worsened its position compared to 2007, “reflect the situation in our country.” President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin arrived at the headquarters of United Russia. Medvedev also admitted that the results differed for the worse from the results of previous parliamentary elections. “Democracy in action,” Medvedev said with a smile.

Popular Russian TV presenter, former lover of Spartak Moscow Welliton Victoria Bonya admitted a few days ago that she is pregnant and knows the gender of her unborn baby. At the beginning of last fall, many secular reporters began to note the noticeably rounded belly of the socialite. However, Bonya continued to persistently deny rumors about her pregnancy. But over time, it became more and more difficult to hide the interesting situation.

in the city told Interfax A single-engine plane crashed near St. Petersburg on Saturday evening, the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations . “About 17.00 Moscow time, a single-engine plane fell in a field between Krasnoye Selo and Villozi,” the source said. He noted that as a result of the incident, one person died and another was hospitalized.

After President Dmitry Medvedev’s statement that United Russia would have to look for allies in other parties in the new Duma, representatives of A Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party did not rule out possible cooperation with the party in power . At the same time, both parties emphasized that a coalition is allowed only under equal conditions.

Sport Leadership in exchange for Del Piero Juventus regained the lead in the Italian Championship Evgeniy Trushin close 100% Alessandro Del Piero spent only a few minutes on the pitch Reuters Juventus defeated Cesena in the 14th round of the Italian championship, regaining the lead in Serie A and losing Alessandro Del Piero. Fiorentina defeated Roma, and Cagliari and Bologna also won on Sunday.

Employees of the election commission No. 1815 in St. Petersburg did not find the editor-in-chief of Slon.Ru Andrei Goryanov, assigned to this polling station, and half of the residents of his house on the voting lists, Goryanov told Gazeta.Ru. “All the neighbors I know didn’t find themselves on the lists. Half of the residents of my house weren’t there at all,” Goryanov said. But, according to him, the election commission allows people who are not on the lists to vote.

The crew of Alexander Zubkov won the first stage of the World Cup in fours in Igls, Austria. Silver medalist of the Games in Turin and bronze medalist in Vancouver , together with Philip Egorov , Dmitry Trunenkov and Nikolai Khrenkov, was ahead of the American crew of Stephen Holcomb and the German crew of Thomas Florschutz. Bobsled. World Cup stage in Igls. Fours 1. Russia-1 (Alexander Zubkov, Philip Egorov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Nikolay Khrenkov) – 1:43.05; 2.