Mikhail Prokhorov ran for president. It is impossible to imagine that a billionaire is nominated without the approval of his candidacy by Putin. Mikhail Dmitrievich is clearly not going to repeat the fate of Khodorkovsky. So this is already the second attempt to implement a joint political project between Putin and Prokhorov.

WE NEED A PRESIDENT FOR ONE DAY Part 1. First results Almost one hundred cities of protest and about one hundred thousand people at a rally in Moscow are the figures for the events of December 10. Let’s not fall into euphoria; this event has almost no visible and immediate results. Political prisoners are still behind bars, there are no re-elections and no resignations yet.

None of my friends will talk about me as a “soilist” or a “Russophile”. That’s why they regularly ask me, “Why are you still here? With your language, your acquaintances...” The last time a wave of such questions washed over me was at the end of September. My serious, patriotically minded interlocutors seriously argued that since there are no personal prospects here, I need to go where it is better. But I'm not going.

Governor of the Voronezh region Alexey Gordeev signed a decree lifting the quarantine for African swine fever (ASF) in the Ostrogozhsky district of the region. Thus, as Interfax reports, the quarantine in the area lasted from November 6 to December 12. An outbreak of the disease was registered in one of the farms in the Ostrogozhsky district. The death began on November 4. To prevent the spread of ASF, 988 pigs were destroyed.

On December 11, a public mass event took place in Perm, which was officially called a picket, but it was neither a picket nor a rally, but something new for Russian political reality.

The nomination of Mikhail Prokhorov for President of the Russian Federation and new games around Alexei Kudrin are, of course, the authorities’ response to the rallies on December 10. An attempt to formalize “from above” the same “party of irritated urban communities” that came to Bolotnaya (Surkov spoke about this “party” the other day, and he accidentally crushed it quite recently at the ever-memorable “Right Cause” congress).

At the rally on December 10, we, the organizers of the rally in Volgograd, identified a meeting with the governor of the Volgograd region as one of the tasks. Our logic is simple. We are convinced that there are only two ways out of the current situation in our beloved Russia: negotiations until the loss of pulse, consciousness and virginity and (or) civil war. We categorically reject the second path.

... a few days before the large-scale protest action on Bolotnaya Square, there was a “horror story” circulating online that young people of military age who came to an opposition rally would be taken away by the police and forcibly sent to the military registration and enlistment office, and from there directly to the army. People were making fun of this on the Internet, but in vain.

I drove to the local police officer. Like everyone else who actively showed themselves at the rally on December 10, they pulled it. He wrote in his explanatory note that he went, like other townspeople, to a food fair. Well, at the same time watch the rally (which the administration tried to spoil with this fair). I see they are discussing the elections. And someone shares their opinion from the foot of the monument. I also have an opinion - I climbed onto the monument and spoke out.

Mikhail Prokhorov will take part in the presidential elections in March 2012. He announced this at a press conference at Interfax. “These two months (after leaving Right Cause - ed.) we sat and worked and created an infrastructure,” said Prokhorov. “It seems to me that in 10-15 years my position will be dominant.” Bloggers couldn't ignore this news. Opinions vary: @ganapolsky ganapolsky: I finished the cutlets and thought this: Prokhorov is going to the polls, he gets a lot - there is no doubt.

Having watched Margarita Simonyan with Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, immediately after NTV, I want to immediately add a couple of points. Firstly, I forgot to note that on the part of the authorities, all events are presented with a condescending smile - they say that traditional Russian nihilists have taken up residence on the Internet, people gathered on Bolotnaya Square just to chat, and the like. The children seem to be small, these dissatisfied ones.

I’m looking through the Internet biographies of young officials and businessmen from one of the most typical Russian regions - Tatarstan. All of them - successful ones - have different paths to success, but the beginning is the same. The fathers or grandfathers of the successful are entirely party nomenklatura of the last or penultimate conscription.

1 How do you imagine the procedure for creating a coordinating council? The approximate composition of the participants is clear - these are people who actively participated in organizing previous large rallies. In my opinion, they should gather in one place - in some editorial office - and publicly, online, discuss the program of further action. So that everyone can see and (this would be ideal) express their attitude to each performance using an “on-air cardiogram” or something similar.

A rally passed. He was a great success, I would even say a breakthrough. I think that for 100,000 participants we exceeded, which has long been in Moscow for a long time. Nevertheless, a huge number of mistakes were also made; At some point, there was a probability of a split among the organizers. Therefore, it is necessary to learn lessons. 1. We must clearly understand that people do not come to political movements.

Two detectives from one of the operational units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Orenburg are suspected of murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen against the suspects.