Everyone was very nervous The rally on December 10, 2011 on Bolotnaya Square is the most massive and surprising protest of the opposition in many years. Tens of thousands of participants, all of them people of different ages and professions. There are no arrests - the police seem to be scared and behave in an emphatically correct manner. Non-political stars among the speakers: Leonid Parfenov, Dmitry Bykov, Tatyana Lazareva and others.

Fair elections are a theory State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Ilya Ponomarev on Pushkin Square on March 5, 2012 again tried to use his status to protect civil activists and oppositionists from the police.

American actor Harrison Ford has put up for sale an estate in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. According to the Realtor portal, he intends to earn $8.295 million for the property. The total area of ​​the main mansion and three guest houses, built in the early 1950s, is approximately 665 square meters. They have seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a spacious living room, kitchen, dining room, several fireplaces, a library and a bar.

White ring of smiles, white ring of hopes The “Great White Circle” action, which even the opposition predicted would be a resounding failure, unexpectedly turned out to be the brightest and kindest action of the protest winter - after the first Bolotnaya Square. Complete strangers held hands, smiled and waved white ribbons to passing cars. It doesn’t matter at all whether they eventually managed to close the Garden Ring.

The Bolshoi Theater presented a landmark premiere - "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss. This opera became the Bolshoi's second turn to the modern European repertoire after Alban Berg's Wozzeck and, unlike it, much more moderate. The choice of singers, the direction, the sets and costumes all give this treatment a solidity that is outstanding in each of its elements, but which proves a little bland as a whole.

In Russia, on Monday, April 9, sales of the updated Renault Scenic minivan began, Avto.ru reports. The cost of a new car starts from 785.5 thousand rubles. According to the publication, on the Russian market the Scenic is available with 1.6 and 2.0 liter engines with a manual or continuously variable automatic transmission. According to Renault's website , the 1.6-liter engine produces 110 horsepower, while the two-liter model produces 138 horsepower.

Nobody disrespected the “Voice” Dmitry Orlov is a political scientist and political strategist who has been collaborating with the United Russia party for a long time as a consultant. Orlov is considered one of the authors of the ideas of the “Putin Plan” in the 2007-2008 election cycle and the All-Russian Popular Front in 2011-2012.

The organizing committee is no longer needed After the rally on Pushkin Square, Alexei Navalny found himself in the fountain with Sergei Udaltsov. This did not look like a conscious step, but Navalny decided not to retreat and supported his colleagues in the coalition “For Fair Elections.” In an interview with Lenta.ru , Navalny explained why a “remake of Chistye Prudy” was impossible on that day, and predicted that the mobile phone would destroy the Putin regime.

Until December 2011, Russian nationalists would not have appeared on the same stage or rally with liberals, much less leftists or anti-fascists. They considered themselves the main opposition force in the country. But in the interval between Chistye Prudy and Bolotnaya they realized that the wind was blowing in the other direction - and it was impossible to remain aloof from the new mass protest.

White ribbon Together with the beginning of the “Snow Revolution, or Pure Creative” action, the civil movement acquired its own symbol - a white ribbon. The authorship is attributed to the writer, Internet technology specialist Arsen Revazov, who on the night of December 5-6 suggested using white ribbons on his Facebook so that the authorities could see how many people are dissatisfied with them.

Letting out your guts is already too much The coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov is a real street fighter. He was detained at rallies and demonstrations more than a hundred times, and he spent a total of several months under arrest. He was also arrested on December 4, the day of the parliamentary elections. And at the height of the December civil protests, Udaltsov, who went on a hunger strike, received an additional 15 days - in connection with the mossy October case.

We have the right to vote for Putin The Nashi movement and other pro-Kremlin activists, which had been quiet since the December mass rallies, became active again in February. Now, however, they are not conducting their own actions, but counter-actions. Thus, youth activists were spotted during the motor rally “For Fair Elections” along the Garden Ring: several dozen young people on Zemlyanoy Val whistled at the rally participants and showed them their middle fingers.

The magistrate's court discontinued proceedings in the case of insult inflicted on Blue Bucket activist Ivan Kuznetsov by the driver of the presidential administration, Nikolai Shulginov, RAPSI reports. Shulginov’s guilt was proven, but in December 2011, amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation came into force, according to which insult is no longer a criminal offense.

On April 7, many countries around the world celebrated Pillow Fight Day, an international event that has been held on a regular basis since 2008. Pillow fights were held on Saturday in the USA, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, China and many other countries. Hundreds of people took part in the fun battles with bedding items. "Lenta.ru" presents a photo report about the Day of Pillow Fights. Shanghai Budapest Taipei Taipei NY NY Berlin NY Berlin Budapest London

Cancellation of stop lists One of the tangible results of civil rallies in Russia is the breaking of the “information blockade”: people suddenly began to appear on federal television channels who had not been invited to appear on television for many years, or never at all. Thus, Alexander Gordon invited Vladimir Ryzhkov and Lev Ponomarev to his program “Citizen Gordon” on Channel One.