The protest on Lubyanka on March 5, 2012 was carried out without coordination with the authorities. Activists of "another Russia", "solidarity" and other movements went to the CEC building with a protest against dishonest elections. The protesters were dispersed by police special forces. According to various estimates, from 30 to 100 people were detained.

Alexander Skobov Immediately after the completion of the special operation to falsify the presidential election, a person who still holds the president’s post is carefully hinting at the opportunity in the future of release of the political prisoners, convening a constitutional assembly, revising the refusal to register the parties of the authorities and the termination of the authorities of public protests (assignment to understand the validity of refusals in agreement ”).

Moscow, March 5, 2012. Video "Novaya Gazeta".

A rally on New Arbat in March 1991. Photo from the archive of Yuri Luchinsky The organizers of the rally "For honest elections" on March 10, which is planned to be held on the New Arbat, refused to consider the alternative options proposed by the mayor. This was announced on his Facebook page by a member of the organizing committee, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko.

Petersburg, March 5, 2012. Eyewitnesses called this acceleration one of the most tough since the 90s.

On March 5, Moscow was in suspense, the city center was scored by riot police, the authorities made formidable warnings, the opposition were afraid of provocations. There were indeed provocators-to-and-offers on Pushkinskaya, but the main events began after the agreed rally, when the call sounded not to diverge. OMON began stripping, the leaders of the protest movement kept the defense in the famous fountain.

Judge Olga Borovkova. Photo: nolique.livejournal.com On March 15, the peace of the Tver judge of the Tver district of Moscow, Olga Borovkova, will consider an administrative case against civil activist Alexei Navalny, detained the day before after the action on Pushkinskaya Square, Interfax reports with reference to Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev. "The consideration of the case is scheduled for March 15 at the court plot No. 369 of the Tver district of Moscow.

March 5 at Pushkinskaya. Photo by V. Maximyuk When accelerating a rally on Pushkinskaya Square on Monday, the police acted legally and highly professional, said Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The opposition’s action consisted of two parts - the police showed a high level of professionalism, legitimacy and efficiency in terms of compliance with the rule of law,” RIA Novosti quoted RIA Novosti, and in the case of legal and illegal parts.

Dispersal of an opposition rally the day after the election. Moscow, March 5, 2012, photographed by Dmitry Zykov and Evgenia Mikheeva.

Vladimir Putin at a rally in Luzhniki The indignation of activists of a number of parties is not related to the results of the presidential election on March 4. As reports RIA Novosti, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said about it.

Photo from the blog of Kirill Insurance Participants in the Consolidated Protocol project to check the counting of votes in the presidential election revealed large -scale falsifications in favor of Vladimir Putin. In particular, in a number of sites in St. Petersburg , discrepancies were revealed between the final protocols, copies of which were issued to observers, and the final data of the GAS-Rights system.

Alexander Reimer. Photo from the site right.ru The Investigative Committee will not start a case against the head of the Federal Punishment Service Alexander Reimer, against which his former secretary wrote a statement, accusing Reimer of sexual harassment and wiretapping, Interfax reports.

March 5 at Pushkinskaya. Photo by V. Maximyuk On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, several people were detained who, with white ribbons, tried to go to the monument to Pushkin. According to RIA Novosti, the police saw an unauthorized action in this. People were asked to disperse, they did not react, after which several of them were detained and sent to a police bus, the agency reports.

Femis on the new building of the Supreme Court. Photo from the site www.newizv.ru The Supreme Court requested the materials of the second criminal case of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev, RIA Novosti reports. It is reported that the case was destroyed due to the fact that the defense of Khodorkovsky filed a supervisory complaint against the verdict of the Khamovnik court.

Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior On March 8, civilian activists plan to hold single pickets in the building of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate in support of the arrested participants in the feminist punk group Pussy Riot. According to Gazeta.ru, the lawyer of one of the detainees - Maria Alekhina - Nikolai Polozov said this.