Public Chamber. Photo from the site FA.RU The creation of an Orthodox party in Russia is contrary to law. According to Interfax, this was stated by a member of the Public Chamber, Director of the Association for the Protection of Voter Rights "Civil Control" Georgy Fedorov. “According to the law, the Orthodox party cannot be created,” he said.

Cheese. Photo from the site www.azbukavkusa.ru Ukrainian cheeses should be classified as a "cheese product", and not as a "cheese" due to an increased amount of palm oil. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in the document published on the website of Rospotrebnadzor. According to the head of the department of Gennady Onishchenko, in recent months the quality of the cheese has declined sharply.

Rasul Mirzaev. Photo: NTV Investigators softened the accusation of the world of mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev, from which 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov died, RIA Novosti reports. "Today, the investigation was charged with Mirzaev Article 109 of the Criminal Code" Causing death by negligence ", which is softer than the previously sane article 111 of the Criminal Code" Intentional infliction of serious harm to health that caused the death of the victim, "said the lawyer Mirzaeva.

Speech by Sergey Stepashin. Photo from the site of the Accounts Chamber Over the past year, violations in Russia have been identified in the field of spending budget funds for a record amount of 718.5 billion rubles. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to the report of the head of the joint venture Sergei Stepashin to the speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

Colonel Mikolai pshiba. Hard of video from Gazeta Wyborcza The employee of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Poland, Colonel Mikolai Pshibil, who tried to shoot himself during a press conference, was placed in a psychiatric hospital, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the head of the medical institution of the city of Bydgoshch. The reason for the stress of the colonel was the investigation of corruption in the Polish armed forces entrusted to him.

Ilya Milstein Now it already sounds like a spell, in Russian, saying a mantra. “The court will release,” Yavlinsky predicts, and it’s scary to even imagine the fate of the judge who refuses to comply with the order from the Kremlin, where Grigory Alekseevich will work as president. And Prokhorov simply has mercy on the prisoner: this will be his "first, humanistic decision", as soon as Mikhail Dmitrievich will be declared a guarantor.

At the place of fire of the restaurant. Frame RT A man died who received almost 100 percent of the body burns as a result of an explosion in the Italian restaurant Il Pittore in the south-west of Moscow. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the capital's department of health, Leonid Pechatnikov. "In hospital No. 36, a patient died who received a 100 percent body burn," the agency’s interlocutor said. He added that the rest of the patients are recovering.

Mikhail Prokhorov. Photo: Dmitry Lekai/Kommersant The mass rallies held in Russia in December marked the end of the "era of controlled democracy." The country needs changes, but it is necessary to go to them with an evolutionary, not a revolutionary way. This was stated by entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov in an article published in the British Guardian.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the official site Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will not participate in the election debate, reports the Moscow Komsomolets with reference to a senior source. According to the publication, the reasons for such a decision "have already been set out by Vladimir Vladimirovich himself in the answers to the question: he intends to debate with opposition candidates or not." “Such a conversation is not on equal terms.

Irina Pavlova Unlike the Russian progressive public, I do not see a political crisis in Russia. In my opinion, there is just an euphoria in which participants in the December rallies are still injected from such crowding.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo by ar In the decision in the Yukos case, the European Court of Human Rights went to forced concessions to the Russian authorities, refusing to recognize the political motivation of the case. This opinion was expressed by the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

Vladimir Putin and Nikita Belykh. Photo from the site Belykh.ru Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised after the election to the president’s post to dismiss some governors, blaming them with a sharp increase in tariffs at the housing and communal services, RIA Novosti reports. The prime minister stated this at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government, recalling that he is a presidential candidate.

Site "Putin 2012": Screenshot Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied reports of removing from the list of the most popular offers to Vladimir Putin on his election website to resign and remove his candidacy from the presidential election, Gazeta.ru reports. Peskov said that the messages disappeared from the site as a result of a technical failure. “When an emergency number of appeals occurred, the system has crossed our system, so they flew away,” he explained.

Agitmaterials "United Russia". Photo from the site www.nnm.ru The draft document, published on the website of Vladimir Putin, launched on Thursday as a presidential candidate, is not his election program. According to Radio Liberty, this was stated by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, the document published on the site was prepared by the United Russia party, which nominated Putin as a candidate for the post of head of state.