Sakharov Avenue. Photo from the site mosday.ru The rally "For honest elections" on December 24 will be held on Sakharov Avenue. As one of the members of the organizing committee of the rally, State Duma deputy from Just Russia, Ilya Ponomarev, said on his Twitter, the application for this place was agreed by the Moscow City Hall.

The group "Arkady Kot". The text is Alexander Brener, vocals, guitar - Kirill Medvedev, video - Yan Kalnberzin. Filmed on December 10, 2011.

Fragment of the pre -election poster of the party '' Apple ''. Photo from the site '' Youth Apple '' The Moscow authorities agreed on the Yabloko rally against the falsification of the results of the Duma elections, the Echo of Moscow reports. The action will be held on December 17 in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. The declared number of participants is up to 10 thousand people.

Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region, December 13, 2011

Andrey Luchin in court. Frame Russia-1 The Moscow City Court canceled the decision of the Simonovsky court to extend the preventive measure in the form of detention to the director of the State Puppet Theater named after Obraztsova Andrei Luchin. According to the "faces" of the spouse Luchin Natalya Peshenkova, the court decided to free her husband on bail of two million rubles. Luchin spent 15 months in a pre -trial detention center.

Leo Rubinstein. Photos of faces It is almost impossible to write about the current moment in recent days: events are developing rapidly, and what seemed the most important yesterday has lost its relevance today. These days, the main and most exciting genre of literature is the report. But some trends are what is happening is still felt.

The man of the year. Time magazine cover According to the magazine, a “protester” became the man of the year. On the cover of the room, an image of a person with a half-closed face and the inscription "From Arab Spring to Athens, from Wall Street to Moscow, is placed. Thus, the magazine noted each participant in mass protests, who swept this year the Middle East, the USA and the world.

Boris Gryzlov. Photo from the site www.molgvardia.ru The State Duma speaker of the fifth convocation Boris Gryzlov leaves the lower house of parliament, RIA Novosti reports. “Today I decided to abandon the deputy mandate. I believe that having worked in the State Duma for eight years in a row, I managed to realize a lot of what was planned, what we planned to do with my colleagues,” Gryzlov said.

Alisher Usmanov. Photo dp.ru The owner of the Kommersant Publishing House Alisher Usmanov said that he had acted correctly, having fired the editor -in -chief of the magazine "Power" Maxim Kovalsky for "Hooligan publications" in the last issue. Thus, Usmanov reacted to an open letter from journalists of a publishing house, Gazeta.ru reports. "I believe that I did the right decision and do not intend to refuse it.

Eduard Limonov, after declaring himself a presidential candidate. Photo by Dmitry Borko The leader of the "other Russia" Eduard Limonov passed the documents necessary for registering him as a presidential candidate in the centrizbirk. The CEC must decide on registration or refusal to register until December 20, the press service of another Russia reports.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo: Russian look The European Parliament recommended that the Russia-ES summit opening in Brussels ask President Dmitry Medvedev a number of questions regarding violations in the parliamentary elections and brutal suppression of the protests in the country, the Air Force reports. This was also stated by the Supreme Representative of the European Union on foreign policy Katherine Ashton. “We will voice our fears,” she said.

European Parliament. Photo by the Air Force The European Parliament called on Russia to hold new "free and honest" parliamentary elections after registering all opposition parties.

Alexander Gerasimov. Photo from Newizv.ru The editor-in-chief of the City-FM radio station and the general director of the M-PUL+holding, Alexander Gerasimov, was dismissed from his posts, but continues to work in the Gazprom-Media holding, Interfax reports. As Gerasimov himself explained, the shareholders made the decision that he was leaving these posts. “But I stay in the holding and I will just deal with other projects,” Gerasimov said.

Sergey Mitrokhin and Grigory Yavlinsky, members of the Political Council '' 'Yabloko' '. Photo '' Novaya Gazeta '' The Yabloko has consultations about the nomination of Grigory Yavlinsky as a single democratic candidate for president. According to Echo of Moscow, this was stated by party chairman Sergei Mitrokhin. According to him, negotiations are underway with representatives of "solidarity", the party of folk freedom and other organizations.

Michael McFol. Photo: StanfordDaily.com The director of Russia in the US National Security Council Michael McFol is conducting secret negotiations on the pro -Kremlin, the group of American senators claims. According to Kommersant, the senators again demanded to postpone McFol's statement to the post of ambassador in Russia.