The New Times asked experts about the protests Was there a chance? — The New Times asked the experts Lev Gudkov, director of the Levada Center : There was none. Because the opposition had neither a program of action nor authoritative leaders who could negotiate with the authorities. Sergey Guriev, Rector of NES : I was. The protesters came out not to change the regime, but to demand fair elections. If 4-5 times more people took to the streets, then, probably, they could achieve this.

The riot in IK-6 in the city of Kopeysk is by no means a unique case. From January 1 to November 1 of this year, human rights activists received 1,534 complaints from convicts or their relatives about violence in the FSIN system Despite talk of humanizing law enforcement, the overall number of complaints is on the rise, according to a letter sent last month by the Foundation for the Protection of Prisoners' Rights to Director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko.

The NEW Times publishes the official response of the European Court of Human Rights to the complaint of Leonid Razvoszhaev Click to increase the picture Razvoszhaev was kidnapped in Kyiv on October 18, 2012. On November 28, lawyer Anna Stavitskaya sent to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) his complaint. The official answer came in two days later.

Director Pavel Bardin finished shooting a new multi -part film, part of the action takes place in Dagestan. Preparing for the filming, Bardin traveled a lot around the republic, which has long become a source of bad news. The New Times publishes fragments of his notebook Wedding in the vicinity of the village of Kubachi - groom Zaur Yuharanov and bride Zarina Karizhova During the Caucasian War, Alexander Dumas traveling around Russia went to the Caucasus.