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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Special operation in Dagestan. Frame NTV The bombs laid on the Caucasus highway had to blow up the column of armored vehicles, Kommersant reports . Six homemade bombs with a total capacity of 400 kilograms in TNT equivalent were discovered on Tuesday evening. During clearance on Wednesday night, an explosion occurred, as a result of which the 43-year-old senior warrant officer of the police, the explosive technician of the Dagestan riot police, Kamil Khalilov, died.

Leo Rubinstein. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru What is the connection between the two recent events - the war -“war” carried out by the ritual burning of the police “Black Marusi” and a documented signature, like the president, is an actual ban on peaceful meetings of citizens in the historical center of the capital? It would seem that no, except that both are a clear violation of the law. One is from a group of individuals, the other is from the state.

Putin at the New Year tree. Photo from the official site Vladimir Putin will not take part in the pre -election television battles, since otherwise he will have to go on vacation. As Interfax reports, the press secretary of the head of government Dmitry Peskov stated this.