Blitz interview with Putin's support participants on February 23, 2012. Video Radio Liberty.

Vladimir Putin at a rally in Luzhniki In Moscow, a rally of supporters of Vladimir Putin was held at the Luzhniki stadium. According to the metropolitan police, 130 thousand people gathered in the large sports arena ( Who is Putin: Video Radio Liberty ). Before that, a march of Putin's supporters on the Frunze embankment took place. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported 30 thousand participants.

Internal Affairs Directorate of Gelendzhik On the night of Thursday in the Gelendzhika Internal Affairs Directorate (Krasnodar Territory), police officers tortured local human rights defenders. According to the New Gazeta with reference to the lawyer Sergei Bogdanov, thus the police tried to get the detainees from the confession in the extortion case.

The building of St. Petersburg State University. Photo from the site www.astronomer.ru The rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev has the right not to declare his income on the grounds that the university was created by Peter I, and the requirements of the presidential decree that determines the procedure for declaring income officials does not apply to it.

Ilya Milstein It is unlikely that anyone has doubts about who won the presidential election in 1996. This was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. So, according to Baburin and other witnesses with names and not to believe an anonymous source in the Kremlin, Medvedev said, meeting with the opposition. Dmitry Anatolyevich discovered this Kremlin secret, as you can understand, by ranging, in the heat of discussion about honest elections. Of course, the scandal broke out.

A table for Putin. Photo from the site '' Echo of Moscow '' Supporters of Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in the evening began to distribute the sets of accessories of the "quiet fighter behind Putin" in the center of Moscow, Gazeta.ru reports. Photos and scans of the set was posted on the website of "Echo of Moscow", entrepreneur Konstantin Rabinsky. The sets are folded into canvas bags, which depict the eye of Putin.

Vasily Aleksanyan. Frame NTV The Moscow City Court refused to remove the arrest from the property of the deceased vice president of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan. According to New Gazeta, back in December, the Simonovsky court of Moscow decided to remove the arrest, but this decision was protested by the prosecutor's office. The defense side of Aleksanyan's relatives appealed this protest in the Moscow City Court and was refused. The case was sent for a new consideration to the same court.

The action in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Photo: nazbol.ru Activists of the Party "Another Russia" held a protest in the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg, demanding to free the political prisoners. According to the press service of another Russia, two activists were chained inside the Tulle Museum in the Trubetskiy Bastion.

In parallel with Putings in Luzhniki, anti -Orange, led by Sergey Kurginyan, held a separate rally at VDNH. The demoniac political scientist outlined his ideological discrepancies with the "Wester" Putin. The slogans of the rally were formulated as follows: “Against the“ Orange ”! Against the Kremlin course! Against the collapse of Russia! For honest elections! For a red project! For Great Russia and the USSR 2.0!”.

Anatoly Chubais. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The allegations that Boris Yeltsin’s victory in the 1996 elections was tucked, groundless and harmful to the current government, said the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais. Violations and fraud were in favor of both parties, mainly at the regional level, Chubais writes on his blog. Zyuganov enjoyed the support of many governors and security forces, recalls Chubais, who headed the Yeltsin’s election headquarters.

Andrey Borodin. Photo from the site www.rospres.com The new criminal case was instituted against the ex-president of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin and former vice president of the bank Dmitry Akulinin. According to Kommersant, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation stated on Wednesday.