About 4.5 thousand people took part in the Rage of the Communist Party on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. This was reported by the metropolitan police department. According to police officers, four thousand supporters of the Communist Party, as well as 500 activists of the “Left Front” and nationalists, took part in the action. Police called the situation at the rally "stable." The Communist Party of the Communist Party began at 11 in the morning near the monument to Pushkin.

The massive detentions of the inhabitants of the city, walking with white ribbons, as well as journalists who were nearby or also walking. On Pushkinskaya Square, the editor of the Russian reporter science department Grigory Tarasich (Krasnoselskoye Department of Internal Affairs), the editor -in -chief of the magazine Poster Ilya Krasovchik, the producer of the Great City Alevtina Elsukova (were at the Perovo police department), etc.

May 24, 2012 (Thursday), as part of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru project, was a professor of computer sciences of computer sciences and engineering at the University of California (San Diego), director of the Center for Computing Mass Spectrometry of the National Institute of Health, the winner of the 2010 megagraner competition, the head of the laboratory of algorithmic biology in St. Petersburg University of St. Petersburg University Pavel Pevzner .

The magistrate of the site number 375 of the Presnensky district of Moscow arrested 15 days blogger Alexei Navalny and the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, detained on Wednesday night on the "festivities" of the opposition. This was reported by RAPSI . Both were detained for violation of the article “Imaginance by the legal requirements of a law enforcement officer” (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Official Washington expressed concern about violence in Moscow during protest performances on May 6 and the detention of civilians during “festivities” in the following days. This was announced during the briefing by the press secretary of the US State Department Mark Toner. “We are concerned about the testimonies of how the police treats peaceful demonstrators during protests and after detention.

The coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov announced a dry hunger strike in protest against illegal detention. This was reported by lawyer Nikolai Polozov. “Udaltsov is left to the Basmannaya ATS to the court, which will take place no earlier than May 10,” Polozov writes on his twitter. He also calls on citizens to come to the police department and support the opposition Udaltsov was detained on Wednesday night, May 9, on the patriarchal ponds during a conversation with his supporters.

There is such a city in Poland near the Ukrainian border: Przemyshl. By Polish standards - a province. But even for Poland, in which there is Krakow, Gdansk and Star Maso in Warsaw, it is a surprisingly beautiful city. Very quiet, calm, friendly, cozy - a reserve of Austrian imperial architecture. For those who understand - such a small vein. Or Lviv, if you wash, restore and offend. Przemyshl is not just small, but very small.

The case of the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov on violation of the rules of rallies will consider the court on May 11. About this " Interfax " told the lawyer Violett Volkova. In her opinion, the detention of the opposition for 48 hours is an “absolutely illegal decision”.

On Red Square in Moscow at 10:00 a military parade began in honor of the 67th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The transaction of the parade is available on all federal television channels The parade is commanded by the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Valery Gerasimov, and is accepted by the parade - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov.

In the area of ​​Moscow, Perovo on Tuesday, May 8, from the blow of lightning, 25-year-old native of Tatarstan died. This was reported by the metropolitan police department. The girl died from acute heart failure at about 15:50 in the emergency room where her husband delivered her. Lightning struck the deceased at the moment when the girl spoke on a mobile phone on the 2nd Vladimir Street.

Russian hockey players defeated the German national team in the framework of the next round of the group stage of the world championship held in Sweden and Finland. The meeting ended with a score of 2: 0 (1: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0) in favor of the Russian team, the victory of which was provided by goals performed by Nikolai Zherdev and Alexei Tereshchenko. This is the third victory of the Russian team in the framework of the current World Cup. Previously, she beat Latvia (5: 2) and Norway (4: 2).

About 3.5 thousand people take part in the march of Communist Party supporters along Tverskaya Street. This was reported by the Moscow Police Department. The procession started from the Pushkin monument and will end with a rally on Lubyanka Square. Along with the communists, other oppositionists take part in it, including members of the “Left Front” and supporters of the “For Fair Elections” movement.

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a term for abuse of powers when signing gas contracts with Russia, was transferred from the Kachanovskaya colony in Kharkov to a city hospital. This was reported by UNIAN . The daughter of the politician Eugene said that Tymoshenko will first be removed from the hunger strike for ten kilograms, the Ukrainian Pravda reports. According to her, this will take at least ten days. After that, doctors will begin treatment.

Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stopped a hunger strike. This was reported by Interfax from the words of the German neuropathologist Lutz Harms. According to the doctor, he examined Tymoshenko and drew up a “certain” treatment plan. “We will begin to gradually take it out of the state of the hunger strike. At first it will be water and juices, a little later it will begin to eat hard food, ”Harms said at a press conference in Kharkov.

The Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 Sukhoi aircraft disappeared from the radar screens during a demonstration flight in Indonesia. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The representative of the aircraft control of the airspace of Indonesia told the agency that the aircraft requested a decrease from a height of 10 thousand feet to 6 thousand. The board received permission, began to turn right and decline. After that, the plane disappeared from the radar screens, and the connection with it was lost.