At the television center in Ostankin, the mass detention of participants in the spontaneous protest against the lies of the NTV channel (NTV ( PHOTO , VIDEO ). According to the Grani.ru correspondent, the police detained several dozen people with and without posters. Human rights activist Mikhail Krieger was detained at the police bus when he demanded to free the protesters. Sergeya Udaltsov was detained when he talked with journalists.

Promotion "Siege of the Kremlin" in Nizhny. Photo: Strategy31nn.livejournal.com On Saturday in Nizhny Novgorod, the court sentenced Anna Kuznetsova and Yuri Staroverov to the administrative arrests of the members of the Nizhny Novgorod Civil Council. According to the NGS press service, Kuznetsova received 8 days, and the Old Believers - 12 days.

Natalya Pelevina and Nikolai Lyaskin at the "night vigils". Photo: Benjamin Dmitroshkin On Manezhnaya Square, participants in the Association of Citizens "Breakthrough" held "night vigils for honest elections." According to the Grani.ru correspondent, the action began at 23.00 on Saturday and ended at 7.00 on Sunday. Participants in the "vigil" with white attributes will be replaced by each other all night.

Militant Orthodoxy. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church asks to attract journalists who illuminated the Pussy Riot group punk in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as everyone who contributes to the spread of "offensive information" to criminal liability under Article 282 of the Criminal Code ("Station of national, racial or religious hostility).

Vladimir Abarinov Opening a public hearing on the amendment of the Jackson-Vanik, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Bokas decided to show off with erudition and began his entrance word with a quote from Catherine II. “Catherine the Great,” he said, “once remarked:“ There is nothing more difficult, how to evade that you like significantly. ”In other words, Bokas likes the idea of ​​canceling the amendment, and he is not able to resist her.

In the center of Moscow near the monument to Marshal Zhukov, the police detained 12 people with white ribbons and balloons on Sunday. Among them are participants in the "solidarity", the "White Ribbon" movements and civilian activists. According to lawyer Elizaveta Denin, after a walk along Red Square, civil activist Boris Baylinson released balls into the sky, to which a white ribbon with the inscription "Freedom" was tied. After that, without explanation, the detention began.

Portrait of the executed Vladislav Kovalev. Photo: Charter97.org At the commemorative board the victims of the attack at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk, people installed a portrait of executed Vladislav Kovalev. As Tatyana Kovaleva, Sister Kovaleva, said on her Facebook page, he stood for about 5 minutes. "Then he was carried away by an imperceptibly drawn man in civilian clothes." Two more dressed special services remained to watch Minskers.

Detained on Saturday at the Revolution Square, the participants of the rally in defense of environmentalist Suren Ghazaryan are charged with holding an uncoordinated mass picket. According to lawyer Yelizaveta Prikhodina, there is only one picketer left in the police who refused to introduce herself. At the Krasnoselskoye police department, a psychiatric ambulance was called for her, but the doctors refused to hospitalize the activist.

Anarchists on Sadovoy. Photo by Konstantin Rubakhina/Openaction.ru Activists of the anti -fascist movement on Sunday conducted a march along the garden ring. According to New Gazeta, about 20 people blocked two lanes on the inside of the ring in the Kurskaya metro area and passed half a kilometer to Kazakova Street.

Vsevolod Chaplin. Photo from the site Simvol-Veri.ru The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is not the first church where the Pussy Riot group performed, two days before their punk-spring, the girls sang a song in the Epiphany Cathedral in Elokhov. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate on the relationship between the Church and the Society of Vsevolod Chaplin.

Venetian commission. Photo from the website of the Council of Europe Russian laws on parties and State Duma elections do not meet the requirements of the European Convention to Protection of Human Rights. This conclusion was reached by the Venice Commission - the advisory body of the Council of Europe in the field of constitutional law. According to Deutsche Welle, experts criticized the Russian system of state control over parties.

The Federal Assembly of Germany has elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from the GDR, by a majority of votes as president of the country. According to Bundestag speaker Norbert Lammert, 72-year-old Gauck won 991 votes, while his main rival, journalist and Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, got 126.