In Moscow, a rally of United Russia will take place today "Glory to Russia!" In support of Putin and Medvedev. It will be held from 16.00 to 18.00 on Manezhnaya Square. According to the deputy secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia Andrei Isaev, the organizers are the United Russia, Moscow trade unions, the “young guard”, a number of public associations included in the All -Russian Popular Front, as well as supporters of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev .

Winter top dressing helps birds to survive in the city, but it is important to distinguish among them “needy” and at the same time not to feed pigeons. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said the President of the Bird Security Union of Russia Viktor Zubakin. “Winter feeding of birds is necessary, but not all birds need to be fed ...

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk on Monday, December 12, justified the vice-governor of the Novosibirsk Region Viktor Gergart, who accused 36 million rubles in misuse. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" . The trial in the case of the vice-governor lasted since November 2010, all this time he performed his duties.

On Monday, the metropolitan traffic inspectorate completely banned the parking of vehicles in the vicinity of the Triumphal Square. According to Interfax , all parking venues are both on the square itself and on the opposite side of Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, fenced with striped ribbons. Along the barrage tapes, traffic police officers are on duty. Meanwhile, any mass shares, including unauthorized shares, are not expected on Monday on Triumphal Square.

Representatives of the opposition filed a notification to the Moscow City Hall about the holding of a rally on December 24 against violations in the State Duma elections, Interfax reports. “Today we submitted notifications to the Moscow government on December 24 of a rally on several large squares of the city of up to 50 thousand people,” said Nadezhda Mityushkina, a representative of the Solidarity movement.

One of the participants in the mass fight in the village of Sagra, the Sverdlovsk region, Daniil Soshnikov, according to the results of a psychiatric examination, was placed in a psychiatric hospital. This was reported by RAPSI . Soshnikov is not a resident of Sagra. He was among the participants in the fight who came to the village from Yekaterinburg. The case against Soshnikov will be allocated to separate production.

The Governor of the Vologda Oblast Vyacheslav Pozgalev asked President D. Medvedev about the resignation in connection with the insufficient level of confidence in citizens after the announcement of the results of elections to the State Duma in the region. What is characteristic - reported this through Twitter. But through Twitter Lee gave a petition - did not specify. In fact, there is a story there (from the point of view of election results) is not so terrible.

The announcement of the preliminary results of the presidential elections in Transnistria is postponed, reports the RIA Novosti website . As the head of the Central Election Commission of the unrecognized republic, Pyotr Denisenko, explained, they may become known on Tuesday. It was previously planned that preliminary results would be announced on Monday morning.

On Monday, the city election commission of St. Petersburg announced the final results of the elections in the city parliament. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Of the 50 places, United Russia received 20 mandates, Socialist -Revolutionaries - 12, the Communist Party - 7 places, Yabloko and LDPR 6 and 5, respectively. In the previous composition of the city parliament, the “apple” was not represented, and EP had 23 places.

The Transnistrian elections showed that the population of the small republic advocates renewing power. But he categorically did not like the Kremlin update. Moscow once again could not affect the elections in the post -Soviet space. Soon it may stop winning the country. The Kremlin lost the elections again - the third in two weeks, this time in Transnistria.

Trading Monday, December 12, in the Russian shares market ended with a fall in the main indices by more than 3 percent on external negatives. This is evidenced by these exchanges. The MICEX index fell by 3.32 percent at the end of the day - to 1349.96 points, the RTS index decreased by 3.31 percent to 1363.67 points. Both indices have updated two -month minimums. Most of the "chips" on exchanges fell within 4 percent.

The results of the elections to the State Duma will remain unchanged, despite the mass protests, which took place on December 10 in a number of Russian cities. This was announced in an interview with Agence France-Presse by Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, possible falsifications still did not affect the final result. “Even if you take into account the so -called evidence, they will amount to about 0.5 percent of the total number of votes,” Peskov explained.

Speaking in a public conversation from the “first person” cycle, Academician Viktor Polterovich talked about how to create a long -term modernization strategy. The academician is sure that modernization cannot be carried out either from above or below - it should be interactive. The modernization strategy can be local or universal. On the one hand, both types can be successful, on the other hand, the all -encompassing strategy is more likely to lead to success.

The fourth power unit of the Kalinin NPP, located in the city of Udomlya of the Tver region, is included today, December 12, in the experimental and industrial operation by 50% of the rated capacity. The energy minister of the Russian Federation was attended by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the head of the Rosatom State Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko.

On December 10, an unprecedented in scale was held on the scale of the protest against falsification of voting results in the elections to the State Duma and for holding full -fledged elections. We publish a photo report from the action prepared by Olga Duchen.