Fighting local significance. In the morning of March 4, only four observers: two from candidate of Vladimir Pokhorov, in the “increased comfort zone”, in the “increased comfort zone” of the Leningradsky station, only four observers: two observers.

For whom and why entrepreneurs voted Catherine Carmack, 28 years old, Kaluga, owner of the travel agency "Catherine Travel" (the travel company has been operating on the market for 7 years, it employs 7 people): “I voted for Putin, because, in my opinion, there were no competitive alternatives on the list. Under Putin, we somehow developed, and what will happen under the rule of Zyuganov or Prokhorov is a big question.

Not only state employees and employees of the State Businesses, but also people consciously supporting him go to rallies in support of Putin For Putin! The main electorate of the prime minister is people who are low -income from small cities. But the youth votes for him. Their arguments were recognized by The New Times Yuri Volkovich, 26 years old, works in IT-Bureau, Moscow under Yeltsin was free, but I do not need such freedom.

Between two evils. On March 4, the vote of small business representatives aroused particular interest. On the one hand, it is generally accepted that it was they who are the basis of the “angry townspeople” who raised a protest wave last December. On the other hand, these people have something to lose to a much greater extent than, for example, state employees. The New Times found out the political preferences of the entrepreneurial community first -hand Andrei Grinkevich over forty.

They do not need Bentley - 2. Of the 1,500 mandates of municipal meetings in Moscow, the opposition will receive about a third according to the election results with the presidential. In the last issue, The New Times wrote about five young people who take the first steps in politics and decided to become deputies of the capital's municipal meetings. What did they achieve in the end?

On March 4, The New Times correspondents went to work as observers, members of the commissions with a decisive voice, entered mobile groups and saw with their own eyes how the victory of the freshly elected president was smuggled Butyrka wants Putin. “Six seconds, ma! Good people, ma! No problem, ma! Prokhorov called on her personally, ma! ” - Under this refrain of Major Adam Abdulaevich, I finally wake up in a passing Butyr prison.

Journalist Trudi Rubin now knows the answer Who is Mister Putin? - 12 years ago, when Vladimir Putin was at the very beginning of his first presidential term, the international observer and columnist of the PHILADELPHIA ENQUIERR newspaper Trudi Rubin at the plenary meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos asked this question. In March 2012, she arrived in Russia. The New Times asked: does she now know the answer?

PEC is a family business Tea with ticks. The precinct election commission is a family into which strangers are not allowed. They show them figs, dream of getting rid of them, but forced to reckon with them March 3, 9.00. The chairman of the polling station Rustem Engalychev brings a box of provisions to the school - several loaves of raw -button sausage, bread, cheese, sprats, tea, coffee, crackers. We sit down to breakfast. The commission has 15 people.

Arkady Bondar is a tall young guy with a big smile on his handsome face. Suitable for every newcomer sitting lost in his bunk in the adaptation squad. He will start a conversation about life, about the case that led to the zone ... Only a very naive person will support the conversation. But I want to talk, and there are many naive ones. The prisoners in the barracks look disapprovingly at what is happening, but do not interfere.