Ilya Milstein The rally on New Arbat gathered twenty thousands of disagreements in return for the declared fifty - and this is not a failure, but rather luck. It could be worse. Since the elections have passed, and everything that should be said about them has already been said. It is said loudly, clearly, using the entire treasury of the native language and sound -integrating equipment, but - hopelessly a deaf interlocutor, also armed to the teeth.

Filming by Veniamin Dmitroshkin and Kirill Sakharnov. Detention of Sergei Udaltsov after the rally

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua Perhaps it is even good that this is our human nature: we are never satisfied with what has been achieved. Skeptics, looking at rallies on the Pushkin and New Arbat, will tell you that the euphoria of the December protests has come to naught in early spring, that the "party" of the dissatisfied will decrease every day and will soon cease to pose a danger to the authorities.

Vladimir Abarinov Many years ago, even under the Soviet regime, one friend of mine was supposed to translate a competitive film at the Tashkent International Film Festival. The film was Indian, and the audience expected to see the spectacle of the beloved genre - a heartbreaking melodrama with songs and dancing. My friend also hoped for this - there, as a rule, there is nothing special to translate.

Medvedev dances "okay". Photo from the site www.lifenews.ru President Dmitry Medvedev satisfied the joint request of the famous TV presenter Svetlana Sorokina and journalist Irina Yasina and, with his decree, excluded them from the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights, RBC reports. They announced their decision to leave the Council of Yasin and Sorokin in early December last year, immediately after the parliamentary elections.

Georgy Poltavchenko. Photo: Dmitry Kostyukov/Kommersant St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko signed a bill prohibiting the "propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia," Interfax reports. Now the law will enter into force after 10 days. Prior to this, the bill was approved in three readings of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly.

Tskhinvali. Photo from the site www.mk.ru The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine withdrew the rental license from the film "Augustus. Eighth" directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, reports "Echo of Moscow". This decision was made after the appeal of the nationalist public organization “Freedom” and the Georgian diaspora.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Rain The elected President Vladimir Putin has a clear plan for the country's development and a clear idea of ​​how to embody it. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the press secretary of the head of government Dmitry Peskov.

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. Photo AP Immediately after the presidential election in Russia, the US administration transferred the G8 Summit to the Camp David, which was supposed to take place in Chicago the day before the NATO summit. According to Kommersant, this is a step towards Vladimir Putin, who refused to participate in the NATO summit in the absence of progress in negotiations in the pro.

Vsevolod Chaplin. Photo from the site Simvol-Veri.ru The punishment of the participants of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot should be inevitable, the church does not intend to "give in to the pressure of the aggressive group, now beating pity." According to Interfax, this was stated by the head of the ROC department on the relationship between the Church and the Company Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin. "The challenge of the Orthodox Christians is challenged.

Natalia Magnitskaya. Photo from the site www.pravo.ru The investigating authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received an official refusal of relatives of the Hermitage Capital, lawyer of the Sergey Magnitsky, lawyer from familiarization with the materials of the criminal case against him, Interfax reports.

Alexey Kudrin. Photo from the site www.guardmag.com Former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin announced the creation of his own fund. “I’m going to create a fund. I will offer laws that must be adopted, and I will also support rational initiatives,” Kudrin wrote on his Twitter.

The troops of the coalition of Afghanistan. Photo by ar The American soldier opened fire on civilians in the province of Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan. According to the Air Force, according to official figures, 16 people were killed as a result of shooting. According to some reports, the fighter had a nervous breakdown. After the execution, he voluntarily surrendered to the American military and was detained.

Sergey Magnitsky. Photo from the website russian-ountochables.com The lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergey Magnitsky did not reveal any corruption schemes in the authorities of the Russian Federation. According to RIA Novosti, the deputy head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry Alexander Yagodin. "Based on the results of the investigation, it can be stated that Magnitsky did not open and did not reveal any corruption scandals," he said.

At the Presnensky court on March 11. Photo by Anton Matyukhin The state prosecutor asked to sentenced to five years the colony of entrepreneur Alexei Kozlov, accused of fraud with the shares of the Moscow Plant, RIA Novosti reports. The court began on Sunday to the debate of the parties in the Kozlov case.