Documentary about a search with an activist of "another Russia" Yuri Old Board on December 11.

On the Saturday of the Civil Promotion on Lubyanka, despite the frost and threats of the authorities, from 5 to 10 thousand people took part in a total of 5 to 10 thousand. Many left, putting the flowers to the Solovetsky stone, others talked, stood in single pickets, repulsed illegal detentions ( chronicle , responses ). The results of the action are evaluated in different ways. Photo report and responses. Video Andrei Novichkov: Lubyanka: detention and rebuff

Investigative Committee. Photos of the newspaper.ru State Duma deputies from United Russia prepared a bill to increase the salary to employees of the Investigative Committee by 175 percent, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the apparatus of the lower house of parliament.

Photo by Dmitry Borko Dozens of people were detained on Lubyanka, where opponents of the authorities laid flowers to the Solovetsky stone. The action was held instead of the "march of freedom", which the city hall did not agree. After laying flowers, many remained in the square. Among the detainees, Sergey Udaltsov, Alexey Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Ksenia Sobchak, Antifashists Alexei Gaskarov and Philip Galtsov. The police call them "instigators." ( Video, photos and responses )

Taisiya Osipova in court. April 2012 Activist of "Other Russia" Taisiya Osipova, sentenced to eight years in a colony on charges of drugs, was transferred from Smolensk to the Tver region. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Smolensk region. “I can say for sure that she had departed from us and arrived in Tver. But we are closed by the law on the protection of personal data and have no right to report her location.

About 30 activists of the anarcho-nationalist organization "Volnitsa" with a banner "For your and our freedom!" held an uncoordinated procession along the Arbat. They planned to come to the "Freedom March", but after the breakdown of negotiations on the coordination of the action, they decided to hold the procession in an unexpected place without warning. Activists burned flares, smoke bombs, chanted "Freedom for political prisoners!", "Down with the KGB system!".

The city hall refused to coordinate the procession to Lubyanka or any other of the central squares (Borovitskaya, the Square of the Revolution, Manezhnaya, Slavic). December 15 at 15:00 protesters will go to Lubyanka.

Konstantin Vanshenkin. Photo: mk.ru On Saturday in Moscow, at the age of 86, the poet Konstantin Vanshenkin died, according to Russia 1. He is known primarily as the author of the words of popular songs "I love you, life", "Alyosha", "Waltz of parting", "How the steamers escort" and others. Music for most of these songs was written by Eduard Kolmanovsky and Jan Frenkel. The poet was born in the family of the chemist engineer Jacob Weinhenker. In 1942, Konstantin Vanshenkin went to the front.

On December 15, 1977, 35 years ago, Alexander Arkadyevich Galich (Ginzburg) died in an accident in Paris as a result of an accident. There is a version that Galich was killed by KGB agents, but she does not find actual confirmation. A Parisian friend of Galich, the poet Vasily Betaki, who, together with the editor of the Continent, Vladimir Maksimov, came to Galich's apartment 20 minutes after his death, testifies: “There were firefighters and a doctor in the apartment.