The action of the CEC. Frame of the video shooting "Novaya Gazeta". Participants in the protest rally detained on Tuesday evening at the Central Election Commission are brutally beaten on buses on the road to the police department. According to the Grani.ru correspondent, about 30 people took part in the “stop the dictatorship” campaign, mainly activists of another Russia. At 19 o’clock they lit several smoke bombs, Bolshoi Cherkasy Lane was shrouded in red smoke.

Auto rake on a garden ring. Photo from the site www.i.drom.ru Camping during the Ring Ring Auto Right was provoked by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism. This was announced in his blog by one of the coordinators of the "Society of the Blue Vederes" Daniil Lindel. “As it turned out, the traffic jam was also provoked by the center for countering extremism, deliberately slowing down the flows of cars,” Lindel wrote.

Foreign Ministry. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Russia does not see for itself the opportunity to take part in the meeting of the "Group of Friends of Syria" in Tunisia. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. “The composition of its participants and the invited or the agenda officially told us officially. The main thing is that the real orientation of this initiative is unclear.

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Vladimir Putin at a meeting with students. Photo by Skynews The electoral rating of Vladimir Putin does not indicate an unconditional victory in the first round of the presidential election. According to Gazeta.ru, this is evidenced by the results of the first sociological study conducted by the initiative group of Russian sociologists in the framework of the Open Opinion project. Its results on Tuesday will be represented in the Public Chamber.

New newspaper According to the results of the audit of the National Reserve Bank, Alexander Lebedev, his personal account was blocked, from which he carried out donations to the new newspaper. As Dmitry Muratov, editor -in -chief of New Muratov, said Gazeta.ru, the newspaper will go out, all employees continue to work. “We are now considering various options, in particular, the suspension of paying salaries for one month,” Muratov said.

A car with a white ribbon. Photo: Ligaizbirateley.ru The site "Big White Circle" dedicated to the opposition shares on February 26 in Moscow was closed. According to Lenta.ru, one of the organizers of the rallies "For Honest Elections" journalist Ilya Klishin announced this. According to him, the site was closed by the company-owner of the server FIRSTDEDIC.RU, while erasing all the data.

Protesters in St. Petersburg. Photo by Anton Tushin/Ridus.ru The authorities of St. Petersburg agreed on the route of the procession "For honest elections" on February 25. According to Interfax, this was announced by the Executive Director of the United Civil Front Olga Kurnosova. "We were offered to go along the previous route of the march from the Oktyabrsky BKZ to Konyushennaya Square. We decided to agree. The main thing for us now is to hold an agreed event and save people," Kournosova said.

Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Activists of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot appeared before the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Gazeta.ru reports. A photograph of girls in colorful stockings on the head standing in front of the altar was published on his twitter an eyewitness to Alexander Kashin.

Chulpan Khamatova on the television channel "1+1". Frame from site 1plus1.ua Protest rallies are necessary to return self -esteem. This opinion was expressed by actress Chulpan Khamatova in the program "Tkachenko.ua" on the Ukrainian television channel "1+1". According to Khamatova, she participated in a rally on Sakharov Avenue on December 24, where she managed to "show that we are and we need to listen to us." “For me, this is not politics, these rallies,” said Khamatova.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Opponents of the current regime should support the candidacy of Mikhail Prokhorov in the presidential election, according to the former Soviet political prisoner Vladimir Bukovsky. In his opinion, Prokhorov, who was made by the Kremlin, is able to become a “defector” and play the role of “Russian Yushchenko”.

Ilya Milstein Imagine, the president’s views have changed. Another year or two or three ago he thought about the state system in a completely different way than today. And recently he has been thinking about her so differently that he is in a hurry to carry out political reform before he leaves his post, and promises to delve into the list of political prisoners. He will "give an order for each person." How to transfer this from the presidential into Russian?

Igor Sechin. Photo: D. Azarov/Kommersant The Government and the Presidential Administration agreed on a list of candidates for councils of directors of state -owned companies. According to Kommersant, the most serious changes affected the structures of TEK.

Ilya Ponomarev on Pushkinskaya Square 12/29/2011. Radio Freedom Video Translation Frame The deputy from Fair Russia Ilya Ponomarev filed an application with the police demanding that the incident investigate the Moscow City Hall during the submission of applications for the holding of shares on March 5, Interfax reports. According to the lawyer of the deputy Nikolai Polozov, the application was submitted to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Tver district.

Igor Jurgens. Photo by peoples.ru Dmitry Medvedev should not occupy the premier post in the future government. According to Kommersant, in an interview with Bloomberg, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society, the head of the Institute of Modern Development, Igor Yurgens, said this. According to Jurgens, Alexei Kudrin, who will be able to carry out political reforms, will better cope with the work of the prime minister.