Moscow Region, Khimki, Yubileiny Prospekt, May 22, 2012. A gathering of local residents against the illegal development of Dubki Park. Photographed by Andrey Novichkov.

Comparative video from two inaugurations: Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollande.

Maxim Efimov. Photo: karelinform.ru For three days, lawyers and human rights activists have not been able to contact Blogger Maxim Efimov, who was forcibly placed in a hospital for a psychiatric examination as part of a criminal case on the publication of the material "Karelia is tired of priests." This was reported in the Interregional Human Rights Association "Agora". According to human rights activists, Efimov does not answer calls and letters from Monday.

Alexander Podrabinek. Courtesy Photo Something does not come out with democracy in the vastness of the former USSR. Only the Baltic republics have successfully got out of the Soviet pit, but Georgia seems to get out of solid soil. The rest either hung in uncertainty, or gradually move back. Belarus and Turkmenistan is already at the bottom, Russia is soon finished, and after it is Ukraine.

"Navalny card". Image from the site navalnycard.ru The National Reserve Bank can issue a bank card, the interest on which they will go to the Fund for the fight against the corruption of Alexei Navalny, Izvestia reports with reference to the owner of the bank Alexander Lebedev. “I really like this idea, I’m ready to discuss the details of the project after the release of Navalny from prison,” Lebedev said.

Ilya Kostunov. Photo: voronezh.er.ru The company "Yandex" was called a fake about frauds with an electronic wallet of Alexei Navalny, to which the uninosos deputy Ilya Kostunov refers. As the press secretary of Yandex.Money said to Lenta.ru, Asya Melkumova, "mythical documents from the mythical former employee of Yandex, which deputy Kostunov was talking about, can only be fake." Kostunov sent a request to the FSB and Rosfinmonitoring to verify the financial activities of Navalny.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Premier.gov.ru President Putin advised the head of the Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov to ask him directly, and not through the media, RIA Novosti reports. So Putin commented on Fedotov’s statement that if the parliament accepts the law, hundreds of times raising fines for violations during rallies, the Council will ask Putin to apply a veto on him.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Rain Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the allegations that after the transition of a number of former ministers to the presidential administration, all decisions will be made only in the Kremlin, RIA Novosti reports.

American students from the College-100 Association began a campaign in support of the Magnitsky Law.

Live8 Festival in Hyde Park. Photo from the website coldplaying.com The Moscow authorities determined potential sites for organizing the Moscow Hyde Park, which Putin proposed to create in February, Interfax reports. “We stopped in four places - the Gorky Culture Park, Luzhniki, Bolotnaya Square and Sokolniki,” said Alexei Mayorov, head of the Moscow regional security department.

Andrey Lukyanov leaves the police department. Photo from the Facebook page OVD info The police released from the Presnya police department the scriptwriter detained on the Kudrinskaya Square and the head of the creative group of the DDB advertising agency Andrei Lukyanov, who was kept in the department for more than 12 hours, confusing with the activist of the war group Oleg Vorotnikov, who was wanted.

Ilya Milstein What is the honest writer doing under authoritarian authorities? He writes to the table: novels, novels, satirical plays, lyrical eight -style plays. And for earnings he works in some publishing house, editing the writers of dishonest, or, if it is completely uncompromising and prohibited, sweeps the Litin-Profitsky courtyard or watching a sharashka. Moreover, there are times when a whole generation goes into the wipers and watchmen.

Evgeny School. Photo of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs President Vladimir Putin appointed his assistant to the chairman of the board of directors of the Uralvagonzavod Yevgeny Shkolov. According to the Kremlin press service, entrepreneur Alexander Abramov and director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum Vladimir Tolstoy were appointed advisers to the president.

Andrey Lukyanov. Photo: ddb.ru Screenwriter and civilian activist Andrei Lukyanov, stolen on Tuesday evening during festivities on Kudrinskaya Square, was found in the morning in the police department. “They just said in the Presnensky Department of Internal Affairs that they had Andrei, detained under an administrative article,” his wife wrote on Twitter.