Irina Pavlova I hope that with his recent article about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Abarinov interrupted the string of meaningless curses and “screamers” addressed to Prime Minister Putin and judge Danilkin. Indeed, it's time to start "soberly assessing the situation." And for this you will have to formulate a number of uncomfortable questions. They arise with the same inevitability as in contemporaries of the indicative processes of 1936–38.

Car of collectors. Photo from the site www.psdp.ru The court arrested the suspects of the murder of two collectors and an accidental passerby in St. Petersburg at the end of December. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg Andrei Lavrenko.

Ilya Yashin before court December 2, 2011 Frame Grani-TV Ilyash Yashin, a member of the solidarity bureau, was released from the Moscow insulator, the Grani.ru correspondent reports. Yashin and his ally on the movement of Boris Nemtsov were detained on the triumphal square after a speech at a agreed rally in defense of freedom of assembly ( Video Grani-TV ) and sentenced to 5 and 15 days of arrest, respectively ( Video faces-TV ).

Moscow, January 5, 2011. Police disperse pickets of solidarity with those arrested on December 31. Photographed by Dmitry Zykov.

Vladimir Thor. Photo from the site nazbol.ru One of the leaders of the nationalists, a member of the National Council of the DPNI, Vladimir Thor (Vladlen Kralin), detained on December 31 in Moscow, announced a hunger strike. His letter, transferred through the lawyer Matvey Zen, was published in his blog by the editor -in -chief of APN.ru Konstantin Krylov.

Andrei Kim, a former Belarusian political prisoner, this time served 10 days for participating in an opposition rally in Minsk on 19 December. Photographed by Veniamin Dmitroshkin.

Picket at the insulator on Simferopol Boulevard. Frame Grani-TV In Moscow, activists of the Left Front and Solidarity were detained, who conducted single pickets in support of the arrested comrades ( All pickets and provocations - in the video of the faces -TV ). The coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov was detained on Wednesday at a single picket by the presidential administration.

Special operation in Khasavyurt. Frame NTV In Khasavyurt, the FSB special forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs blocked a group of militants. As Interfax was told in the information center of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee, four militants were killed during the special operation, their personalities are established.

Power lines About 100 transformer substations again disconnected in the Moscow Region over the Moscow Region, a representative of MOESK OJSC told RIA Novosti. "As of 08.00 in the Moscow region, 470 transformer substations were disabled, yesterday at 22.00 377 were disabled," he said. According to the source, the wind and snowfall led to the fall of the trees and the cut of the wires on several power lines, which caused new shutdowns.

Detention of participants in the opposition action in Minsk. Hard of news In Minsk, two Russian citizens were charged in a criminal case of riots that occurred in the Belarusian capital on December 19, 2010. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the representative of the Department of Information and Public Relations of Belarus Viktor Novikov. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, this information confirmed this information.