Paris of 1968, Moscow 2012-both there and there, protesting youth went out into the streets and remained on them-in May. The spontaneous folk festivities, which started on the day of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, turned into a weekly standing opposition at the monument to Abay Kunanbaeva in pure ponds, continued on Kudrinskaya Square and were supposed to end the “Summer of Freedom” on Tver Boulevard.

Sergey Guriev - The New Times "To maintain power, Putin can go to re -election." In our life there is a place for optimists. Searched - found. Sergey Guriev, professor, rector of the Russian Economic School, independent director of Sberbank, investor of the corruption Fund Alexei Navalny and a member of the open government of Dmitry Medvedev.

A survey of the Levada Center sociologists showed: there was no trace of the “Teflon” Putin. In 130 settlements of 45 regions, citizens of Russia, interviewed in the third week of April, definitely stated: the president -premier - the President, the president had arranged them, the charm has passed. If, at the end of the second presidential term of Putin, in February 2008, 62% considered his strongest side of GDP his businessiness and energy, then in April 2012 there were only 39%.

The government is deposited. The formation of the cabinet Dmitry Medvedev, which has been protected by beyond measure, has already gained the glory of the most comical performance of the latest Russian history. President Vladimir Putin does not go to the G8 summit in Kemp-David to manage the formation of the office on the spot. Prime Minister Medvedev goes there because Putin decided as far as possible to rid him of participating in this event. Like Duumvir Medvedev, in fact, deposed Putin.

Ex-correspondent NTV Konstantin Smirnov-The New Times Inappropriate to anatomy. Konstantin Smirnov worked on NTV for only a few months. With the correspondent of The New Times, he met in the Vegetarian cafe "Avocado" in pure ponds before the opposition camp at the monument Abay Kunanbaev was dispersed by the forces of the capital riot police.

Provincial news. The Kremlin carries out mass cleaning of the heads of regions. The goal is to prevent the elections there in the next five years. Where, who and how they are cleaned - April 19 on April 19 on April 19, on April 19, on his microblog on Twitter, Smolensk Governor Sergei Antufiev wrote that rumors about his resignation were “ringing in my ears”.

Sergey Samit Putin is not Stalin. Unless a parody of Stalin ... A significant part of the population, dissatisfied with the orders of criminal capitalism, voted for Putin, the leader of the mafia, criminal-capitalist state, in the stupid hope that Putin, as the ideological heir to Stalin’s Bolshevik, will fight the large capital and other spatracies, whose Putin’s heir in the Bolshevik Putin, votes. Reality is.

Is it worth starving if they don't notice it? Extreme measure. Last week, the lawyers of the leader of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov, sentenced to 15 days for disobedience to the police, persuaded him to stop a dry hunger strike. It lasted more than a week. Someone will ask: is it worth starving if the authorities do not pay attention to it?

Almost two weeks after the inauguration, the citizens did not know who would sit in the new government, there were no reassignment in the presidential administration, but Vladimir Putin had already carried out one of the most high -profile and original personnel appointments throughout his career: the head of the Uralvagonzavod workshop, Igor Kholmansky, became the presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District.

Greece will leave the Eurozone Grexit, or "With debts - to exit!" An attempt to form a capable government has failed in Greece - early parliamentary elections are waiting for the country. The population reacted to a political impasse by the massive seizure of their deposits from banks: in two days, May 16-17, € 1.2 billion was removed from the accounts. In the current situation, the exit of Athens from the eurozone seems to be practically inevitable.

The Public Chamber held public hearings on the issue of the May events in Moscow. From the Kremlin side, a good dozen public figures appeared, and each of the first spoke with concern about the radicalization of the protest - and offered his own means of combating this scourge, up to the permission of the police to blizzard people with white ribbons, without waiting for them to shout something or raise something above their heads.

Opposition festivities in Moscow and regions Protest map. The Mobile Maidan stood for a week on pure ponds, conquering the right of citizens to walk and gather on the streets of his city. These days such shares began in more than 20 regions of the country. Local opposition, under the slogan of solidarity with protesting Muscovites, go out into the streets with songs, poems and white ribbons. By analogy with Okopayabai, street camps are defeated in the regions (St.

CONTENT Feedback Short Mobile Maidan Opposition festivities in Moscow and the regions Matvey Krylov “Looking for sneaky situations is not for me” Former NTV correspondent Konstantin Smirnov — The New Times Between Moscow and the Kremlin Protests split the elite Ekaterina Vinokurova last resort Is it worth starving if they don't notice it?

The protests split the elite Between Moscow and the Kremlin. The protests of the last week led to the split and the emergence of two different positions in the elites: some - the presidential administration - were longing to laid out, others - the metropolitan city hall - wanted a compromise.

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