It’s truly impossible to comprehend police logic with the ordinary mind. The notorious purges of the opposition - repeatedly appealed and condemned, seemingly at the very top - are being repeated exactly as before the G8 summit. Nine months later, a blotter of summer absurdity, law enforcement officers are once again wasting a powerful resource on elderly “rebels” and are bringing the families of peaceful representatives of the human rights workshop almost to a heart attack.

The top officials of the state fall into pioneer childhood Entire cottage towns have grown up in the Leningrad region on land that is listed as children's health camps. It is almost unthinkable to resettle cottages: too influential people live in estates with family coats of arms on the facade. Although it is possible that weak attempts to dispossess the owners of illegally built mansions will still be made.

The coalition of opposition forces “The Other Russia” met the day before the St. Petersburg March of Dissent - not only to discuss issues related to its implementation, but also to develop a strategy for voting in the St. Petersburg parliament. In its attempts to maintain power, the Kremlin is ready to support even radical opposition Following the meeting, the leader of the United Civil Front, Garry Kasparov, made a sensational statement: the Kremlin is ready to support the “Other Russia”.

“I came to the March of Dissent after Valentina Matvienko spoke on television and called not to participate in the “forbidden rally.” I heard similar words on March 3 from many people - after seeing the mayor’s speech on prime time television, they decided for themselves: let’s go! In fact, she was the true organizer of the March. It was her policies that brought people to the streets. And she was also the one who provided advertising for the event.

Under-arrow The killer arrow no longer hangs over the roof of the house on Kamyshovaya Street, 2. She has already done everything she could. Fragments of the collapsed crane were removed from the scene late last week. Residents of the destroyed entrance returned home. The authorities left them no choice Six apartments are for renovation, six are for resettlement.

113 people were detained - such data were announced by law enforcement agencies following the results of the Dissent March. True, the scale of the arrests suggests that there were significantly more people in the police departments. Four remained in the cells: St. Petersburg resident Oleg Petrov, who was given two days of arrest, as well as three National Bolsheviks: Dmitry Sidorenko, Dmitry Koryunov and Nikolai Medvedev, who received 15 days each.

Smolny's fear of a popular referendum is stronger than common sense The city election commission decided to do as the Committee on Legislation of the city parliament advised it: to return all the documents for holding a referendum on Gazprom City to the initiators, as allegedly “incorrectly executed.” They say that something is missing, and in general, as the commission believes, the initiators... did not put forward the initiative to hold a referendum, as required by law.

The organizers of the March of Dissent kept their promise: they scared Smolny. Fear was clearly felt in the streams of lies that were poured out on its participants before and after the march, and in the accumulation of paddy wagons on Nevsky Prospekt, and in the unjustified cruelty of the riot police.