“Help urgently needed!” — volunteers of the Time to Help charity foundation are now knocking on all doors. And as a result, children from shelters and orphanages in the Leningrad region, for whom “Time to Help” collects warm clothes and toys, are left without gifts for the New Year.

A split has emerged in the Yabloko faction led by Grigory Yavlinsky - last week alone entered parliament, and on Monday, December 12, “Yavlinsky’s people” found themselves left out. Their places were taken by supporters of the leader of the local party branch, Maxim Reznik. According to preliminary data, the faction was to include ex-speaker of the Leningrad City Council Belyaev and former deputy of the Assembly Amosov.

“Who did I create this film for? First of all, for Russians. They, like no one else, can understand the soul of this woman. I wanted to touch the hearts of people in our age of cynical pragmatism,” says director Marina Goldovskaya about the film “The Bitter Taste of Freedom,” dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya. This is an amazing tape. The most poignant of those dedicated to the journalist.

The Hindenburg Path and the Juan Carlos Path The people at the rallies had their say. The authorities completely ignored him. The parties that entered the Duma did not fan the flame, agreeing to work on the terms proposed by the authorities. Indeed, why do they need further democratization of the process? After all, if you insist on holding real elections, you will have to allow Parnas, the National Bolsheviks, as well as the parties that Mikhail Prokhorov and Alexei Navalny will create.

I'm having a hard time getting in touch. I don’t want to write “Mr. Kotsyubinsky.” I hope - taking into account the age difference - you will not consider my calling by name to be familiar. I read your article, Daniil, about the rally in St. Petersburg. I agree with many of the complaints about the organization, although you cannot help but know that permission to hold it was received at the last moment, so it was not easy to prepare better.

Usually deputies come “for the first time to the new Legislative Assembly” joyful. This time the holiday didn't go well Only the new United Russia members glowed with happiness when they received their mandates from the hands of the Chairman of the State Electoral Commission, Alexander Gnetov. The Socialist-Revolutionaries and Yabloko members admitted that even within their own circles they did not celebrate the victory in the elections.

It is not true that the St. Petersburg courts cannot cope with the avalanche of detainees at the rallies from December 4 to 10. They don't even try to do it. Since the end of the elections, people, randomly loaded onto buses, were first scattered to police departments throughout the city, and then they began to register and charge them. And then the process froze. For two reasons: objective - technical and subjective - political.

In the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the trial of the “pearl ensign” Vadim Boyko, accused of abuse of power - beating and insulting people on July 31, 2010 at the Strategy-31 rally, is ending. On December 14, the defendant made his last word: “Since I was 18 years old, I have served for half my life: first in the Airborne Forces, then in the riot police.

Data from the protocol of polling station No. 1629 Data from the official website of the CEC Data from the protocol of polling station No. 500 Data from the official website of the CEC

After that, our conversation went completely in the wrong direction. I thought bitterly about the prepared questions about the budgeting of libraries and schools, but my interlocutor sat on his favorite hobby - transport problems of megacities. In my mind, the conversation with Vasily Kichedzhi should have started with culture. After all, in St. Petersburg he was put in charge of theaters, schools and the media. But due to a huge traffic jam, I was late for the meeting.

Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (*according to the “Memory List”) The need to “wear” his older brother’s wife, just as he had previously worn out his trousers and jackets, seriously bothered the Kid from Lindgren’s fairy tale.

Who went to Bolotnaya and Pionerskaya? Apart from the usual activists from anarchists to fascists, these were mostly young people who still had a disdainful attitude towards politics. They are an analogue of the Western middle class among young people: businessmen, students, clerks, computer scientists. These are people who cannot imagine their life without the Internet. They intuitively know how to use any newfangled gadget.

Percent nomads While the majority of United Russia deputies easily collected tens of percent, Evgeny Nikolsky in the constituency in Lakhta fought for every hundredth. Immediately after the elections he had more than 25%. Then the votes began to disappear, and as a result, the City Electoral Commission counted Nikolsky 3.03%. Voices ran away from United Russia Evgeny Vladimirovich Nikolsky was unlucky with the electoral territory.