Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru On the eve of the Saturday rally in the Russian capital, I am increasingly hearing comparisons with the Kyiv Maidan. This is natural - Russian rallies organizers are interested in the experience of the Ukrainian peaceful revolution, which did without sacrifices, but led to an additional round of the presidential election and the victory of an opposition candidate. But any analogy is lame - including this one.

Frame from the film "Sergey Magnitsky: Justice. Law. Fate" The Tver Court recognized the criminal case legal in relation to the jail, the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky, reports Echo of Moscow. He was accused of legalizing 5.4 billion rubles. Magnitsky lawyers demanded that the actions of the investigative department be recognized as illegal. Magnitsky repeatedly indicated that law enforcement officers could be involved in money laundering.

BTR column in Moscow in 1991. Photo by Dmitry Borko On the Moscow Ring Road, the convoy of armored personnel carriers hit the accident. Oleg Kozlovsky posted a member of the solidarity political council in his living magazine, on which the column is captured after an accident. On the record posted on YouTube by the Kapadaster86 user, it is clear how six armored personnel carriers are on the left side of the road, the traffic police car heads the column.

Schoolchildren. Photo from the site yuga.ru Moscow schools received an order from the Department of Education to carry out unscheduled tests in the 9th, 10th and 11th grades on December 10-on the day of the intended opposition rally. According to Gazeta.ru, this was announced by a teacher of one of the schools of the Western District of Moscow. Twitter users also write that Twitter’s users also write that on Saturday in Moscow.

Carousel. Photo from the site www.admgor.nnov.ru The New Gazeta published documents on the organization of electoral "carousels", which conducted the elections of the headquarters of the candidate from "United Russia" Alexander Salaev, who ran for the 18th district in the Kolpino district of St. Petersburg. The editorial office included 5 reports compiled by the heads of the throwing groups.

Lyudmila Alekseeva and Mikhail Fedotov. Frame NTV The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva does not intend to leave the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Echo Moscow reports. "We are all outraged by the tackle in the State Duma elections, but I think that we are just with the help of the presidential council and will solve these problems," said Alekseeva.

Fedor Amirov. Photo from the site Meloman.ru The Tver District Court released from the administrative arrest of the famous pianist, laureate of the Tchaikovsky contest Fedor Amirov, sentenced to 10 days after the detention in pure ponds.

B. Akunin, writer. Photos of faces The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) called on all those who disagree with the results of the elections to go on December 10 to Bolotnaya Square, while not succumbing to provocations. “Do not listen to the provocateurs who will knock you down somewhere with processions, storm something or smash you. Let those, others, steal the elections and violate the laws. And we behave differently,” he wrote in his blog.

A damaged ballot. Image from the Vkontakte group "There is no profanity of elections" The results of the elections of the Moscow Regional Duma in the three constituency of the Moscow Region can be revised due to numerous complaints. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the chairman of the Moscow Region Irek Vildanov. "We have a lot of complaints from the queen, in Serpukhov and the Shchelkovo district. We do not yet recognize these elections.

The Femen action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Photo by Anton Belitsky/Ridus.ru Activists of the Ukrainian movement Femen held an action among the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the center of Moscow. According to the Civil News Agency Ridus.ru, the girls divided the topless and launched posters with the slogan "God, the king of persecution" ( video ). The girls were dressed in shorts of camouflage coloring with Russian tricolors.

Ilya Milstein Medvedev - to the Duma, Putin - to the Kremlin. Billionaires are a realistic people, which is why you can hardly meet them on triumphal or pure ponds, in those columns where offended citizens polemnize with riot police on the paths of the formation of a rule of law. For, unlike citizens, they understand that discussions on this and other topics should not be carried out in the squares, but in quiet offices and in a completely different tonality.

Fedor Amirov. Photo from the OpenSpace.ru website The leadership of the Moscow Philharmonic and the Rector of the Conservatory, Alexander Sokolov, prepared applicants for the release of the pianist Fedor Amirov, arrested 10 days after the detention on the protest against the falsification of elections in pure ponds, the Moscow Komsomolets reports. Due to the arrest, under the threat of the breakdown, the concert of Amirov was on December 10. Composer Oleg Piberdin spoke in support of Amirov.

Gennady Onishchenko. Photo: Vasily Smirnov/Russian Look The chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko recommends that the Russians refuse to participate in mass promotions and rallies in order not to increase the incidence of influenza and SARS, RIA Novosti reports. “I recommend not to go to demonstrations, given that still cold time is expected to worsen, especially people with chronic diseases, endocrine diseases.

Anatoly Ermolin. Photo from the site http://2001.pedsovet.alled.ru The former head of the special operations department of the Vympel detachment, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Ermolin, turned to military personnel, police officers and special services appeal to "stand in the way of those who do not care who and for what to wet in the toilet." The appeal of Yermolin is published in The New Times. It contains detailed recommendations on how to behave during the dispersal of mass protests.

Vladimir Abarinov Boring in this world, gentlemen. You are waiting for something original from the leader-he will suddenly say, for example, that the party in power has stolen the elections because of its mediocrity and greed, and again everyone will love him. But he was deadly tired of original, and he, like a hackneyed record, repeats the former mantra about evil overseas intrigues. He is not even interested in whether they will believe or not.