Live8 Festival in Hyde Park. Photo from the website coldplaying.com Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offers to create a place like the London Hyde Park in Moscow, where people could gather and “openly express their opinion,” RIA Novosti reports.

Natalia Sindeeva. Photo from the site www.openspace.ru The Director General of the Rain television channel Natalya Sindeeva suggested that the head editor of Echo Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, begin negotiations on the redemption of the share of the radio station at the Gazprom-Media holding. "Let me send to Gazprom-Media a proposal to redeem their shares in CJSC" Echo Moskvy "? Your colleagues will not object to partnership?" - wrote Sindeeva on Twitter Venediktova.

Vladimir Putin at a meeting with students. Photo by Skynews The working group on information disputes under the Central Election Commission did not find agitation in the films "Bridge above the Abyss" and "Pack into the Five", which were shown in January on Channel One and NTV, ITAR-TASS reports. "The working group came to the conclusion that the authors of the films considered the historical retrospective, starting from the 90s to the present.

Rasul Mirzaev. Photo: NTV The Moscow prosecutor's office appealed the decision to free the world champion of mixed martial arts of Rasul Mirzaev, accused of the unconditional murder of student Ivan Agafonov, ITARSELS reports. “The prosecutor’s office was initially against changing the preventive measure to the defendant and consistently insisted on extending the term of its detention,” the department noted.

Alexey Venediktov. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru The editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, considers a decision to be politically motivated on the early resignation of the board of directors of the radio station, but still does not connect him with criticism from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He stated this on the air of the radio station.

'' 'Gazprom-Media' '. Photo from the holding website The company "Gazprom-Media" demanded an early resignation of the Board of Directors of Echo of Moscow and the change of composition of independent directors. This was announced on Twitter by the editor -in -chief of the radio station Alexei Venediktov. Gazprom-Media owns 66 percent of the shares of the radio station. As RIA Novosti reports, there are no comments of Gazprom-Media yet.

Logo NTV. The NTV channel will show the documentary "Putin, Russia and the West" by the Air Force, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the portal "Around TV". The film will be aired on February 25 and 26 at 22.50 and 22.55. This four -part film was shown in Germany in December 2011 and in the UK a month later. In Germany, the film was unnoticed, but in the UK brought criticism from Russian emigrants who accused the authors of the film of taking a passing position.

Alexey Olesinov on the dock. Photo by Elena Sannikova The famous Moscow anti -fascist Alexei Olesinov was detained in St. Petersburg. According to his friends, on Monday, Olesinov, on Monday, was taken to Moscow to the police department in the Basmanny District. A criminal case has been instituted against him under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism) in connection with a fight in the Moscow club "Air".

Femen action at Gazprom. Photo from LJ movements The activist of the Ukrainian Femen movement Oksana Shachko, arrested after the protest at Gazprom headquarters in Moscow, was fined 1000 rubles, UNIAN reports. "The Russian citizen, who was detained for the campaign of Gazprom, was released last night. She was fined 1000 rubles for petty hooliganism.

'' 'Gazprom-Media' '. Photo from the holding website The new composition of the board of directors of the Echo Moskvy radio station may include the general director of Svyazinvest Vadim Semenov and the former general director of Lenizdat Yevgeny Trubin.

The pre-election debate between the representatives of Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Prokhorov aroused great interest. Nikita Mikhalkov, the "besogon", took the rap for Putin, and his sister, philologist and publisher, for Prokhorov. Bloggers, well-known and not so, are delighted with the results of the duel: by all accounts, the intelligent Irina Prokhorova defeated the patriot master.

Eduard Limonov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The political situation that has developed in our country between the elections is unpleasant for me. She worries me. This situation is harmful to the country, because it leads to false confrontation. Now I will explain what is the matter. There was an undesirable, negative and fraught with consequences the false polarization of society.

Vladimir Abarinov It is completely incomprehensible how various sadders learned the opinion of the people about the people before the appearance of scientific methods for studying this opinion. It is even more surprising that in our time, publicists and politicians allow themselves to judge the moods of society and its structure, having almost no sociological material at their disposal.

Alexander Lashmankin In Samara, a human rights activist and journalist, one of the organizers of the shares for honest elections, Alexander Lashmankin is beaten. According to the Open Information Agency, Lashmankin was attacked on the street at about 18.30. It was hospitalized in a neurosurgical department with a closed head injury, a fracture of the nasal bones and numerous abrasions on the face.