Members of the Public Monitoring Commission Anna Karetnikova, Elena Gordeeva, Mikhail Krieger and political activists speak. Filming and editing by Dmitry and Anna Borko.

The rally of the Five Requirements Committee 02/19/2011. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru About 400 people took part in a protest rally on Pushkinskaya Square with a demand for the resignation of the government of Vladimir Putin, Echo of Moscow reports. The agreed action began with the fact that its organizers asked the participants to lower the flags and honor the memory of the dead with a minute of silence at the terrorist attack at the Domodedovo airport.

Deceived shareholder. Photos of faces In the center of Moscow, activists of the Motor Motioners blocked the Znamenka Street, Kasparov.ru reports with reference to the coordinator of the movement of Igor Guliev. According to him, the participants in the action on 25 cars blocked the street opposite the building of the Ministry of Defense. They hung transportants with slogans on their cars. The equity holders blocked the road with their cars, turning on the signs of an emergency stop.

February 19, 2011. The promotion of left -wing forces against the growth of housing and communal services tariffs.

The constituent conference of the Party of People's Freedom. Photo from the party site Regional branches of the Party of People's Freedom were established in Yekaterinburg, Tula and Chuvashia, according to the organization’s website. More than 300 people took part in the work of the Constituent Assembly in Cheboksary with the participation of the co -chair of Parnas, the leader of the RDS Mikhail Kasyanov.

Natalia Vasilieva. Frame video interview with the Rain TV channel The assistant judge and press attache of the Khamovnik court, Natalya Vasilieva, who spoke about the unprecedented pressure on Judge Viktor Danilkin during the second trial in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, said she expressed her civil position. She told about this in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Raisa is careless. Frame of the Orenburg television and radio broadcasting company The General Director of the Russian Television Academy of Russian Television Raisa Carelessly died in Moscow on Saturday morning, Interfax reports with reference to the Fund press secretary Natalia Samoletov. The careless, which recently turned 65, fell under the car in the courtyard of her own house in the capital. No details in the press service of the fund were not specified.

Kabardino-Balkaria. Frame NTV In Kabardino-Balkaria, as a result of shelling of a car at the entrance to the village of Zayukovo in the Baksansky district, four tourists from Moscow were killed, ITAR-TASS reports. Three people - Denis Belokon born in 1976, Vyacheslav Kara born in 1984 and Irina Patrusheva born in 1973 - died at the scene. Another man who received severe injuries after a few hours died in the hospital. The name of the deceased is not yet called.

Elbrus. Photo from the site mountain.ru On Elbrus, the Azau is an old horizons suspended cable car, RIA Novosti reports. According to law enforcement officers of Kabardino-Balkaria, no one was injured as a result of the incident, but the cable broke off and 30 out of 45 cable booths collapsed. Who could stand behind the demolition of the road is not yet known. According to the source of the agency, the explosion occurred on Friday at about 22.00 Moscow time.

Riots in Benghazi (Libya). From the site Yahoonews As a result of fierce clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement agencies in Libya, at least 84 people were killed. These are the data of the Human Rights Watch human rights organization. In the blog of the Al-Juzira TV channel, with reference to HRW, it is reported that only 55 people died in the city of Bengham, of which 35 died on Saturday from gunshot wounds.

Alexey Kudrin, Minister of Finance of Russia. Photo by RIA '' News '' To conduct modernization in Russia, honest presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as understandable rules of the game for business, are needed. This was announced at the Economic Forum in Krasnoyarsk by the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, the publication "Business Petersburg" reports. “In Russia, the issue related to the formation of the political system is still acute,” Kudrin said.

Vicki Pelav. Photo Telegraph.co.uk Journalist Vika Pelaes, a defendant of a spy scandal, as a result of which nine people were expelled from the United States on charges of cooperation with Russian intelligence, returned to Peru, reports Associated Press. The plane, on board of which Pelaes was located, landed at Lima Airport on Friday evening. Pelaes flew to her homeland for the funeral of her father, which will be held in the city of Cuzco on Saturday.

Petersburg, Palace Square, February 19, 2011.

Flags of the participating countries Brik. Illustration from the site nologo.su The South African Republic officially joined the group of developing states Brik (Brazil-Russia-India-China), Reuters reports with reference to the Minister of Finance of India Pranaba Mukerji. "Today, South Africa has officially joined the BRIC.