On December 13, 2011, the first meeting of the organizing committee of the rally was held. The organizing committee includes: Boris Akunin, Gennady Gudkov, Elena Lukyanova, Boris Nemtsov, Sergey Parkhomenko, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Yuri Saprykin, Anastasia Udaltsova. I evaluate very positively the participation in the work of the organizing committee of the famous representative of the SR G. Gudkov and L. Parfenov.

Mikhail Prokhorov's decision to nominate his candidacy for the post of President of the Russian Federation, publicly announced by him on the 19th anniversary of the adoption of the country's fundamental law, caused an information tsunami. Oddly enough, the intentions of one of the most influential and richest people in Russia to return to politics were subject to obstruction, precisely from the liberal camp. And again, their arguments do not sparkle with novelty.

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In 2012, the authorities of the Moscow region will increase food costs for schoolchildren by more than 1.5 times. According to Interfax , more than 1 billion 345 million rubles are planned to be allocated from the regional budget for school meals.

Those who remember the tragic events of the autumn of 1993 also remember the provocative position of Mr. Zorkin, who then occupied the same position, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court. 18 years have passed, the Constitution has changed, and something has changed in his head. True, I can’t say it’s for the better. See for yourself. This is what the Chairman of the Constitutional Court writes in his article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published on December 12, Constitution Day.

The Kostroma prosecutor's office is conducting an investigation into the fall of a New Year's tree on a young mother and child, senior assistant prosecutor of the Kostroma region Tatyana Rotcheva told Interfax on Tuesday, December 13. “The check should be completed by the end of this week,” the agency’s interlocutor clarified.

Even on the morning of Monday, December 12, the main question remained what tactics the authorities would choose in the context of the current crisis. By lunchtime this tactic, at least the first version of it, began to take shape. The AP acted quickly, interrupting the discussion of the results of the Saturday rally on December 10, the upcoming release of Navalny and further actions of the opposition with two technical information dumps.

The sinkhole that formed in Berezniki (Perm region) has approximately doubled in size recently. The dimensions of the funnel are 40 by 30 meters. “Initially, the dimensions of the crater were 22 by 15 m. As a result of the collapse of the sides (mainly northwestern and southeastern), its dimensions increased,” the press service of the city administration said in a statement .

An authorized rally took place in Perm on Tuesday in support of the policies of Dmitry Medvedev, as well as the candidacy of Vladimir Putin for the post of President of the Russian Federation. According to Interfax , about 1,000 people attended the event. The meeting took place opposite the Organ Hall. Buses arrived at the scene of events, bringing protesters from different parts of the region, including very remote ones.

During nine months of anti-government protests in Syria, more than five thousand people died, including 300 children, said UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillai, Ekho Moskvy reports. According to the UN, during this time 12.5 thousand Syrians emigrated from the country.

In my opinion, one of the important steps of the protest movement in Russia should be the nomination of a citizen candidate for the post of President of Russia. I described this idea of ​​a president-for-a-day in detail, but I will repeat only the key points. This candidate should have only one point in his program: hold free elections and, after they are held, immediately transfer power to the elected deputies and the president. Personally, I think Alexei Navalny is the best candidate.

Yesterday, for some reason, I couldn’t find the printed version of Vlast, chalking it up to postal confusion. As a result, I read the number on the website . They dealt very seriously with Edra and the rigged elections there. And today they suddenly report that the long-time editor-in-chief of Vlast, Maxim Kovalsky, who made this magazine one of the best on the market, has been dismissed. And along with him is the director of the entire Kommersant holding, Andrey Galiev.

A little over a week ago, using the example of the story of Roman Badanin, I wrote about how the motives of the actions of journalists differ from the reasons of media managers, whom Demyan Kudryavtsev personified at that time. Today, the general director of the Kommersant publishing house submitted his resignation after the dismissal of the editor-in-chief of the Kommersant-Vlast magazine, Maxim Kovalsky.

Mikhail Dremin begins working on the streets of Yekaterinburg. He moved to Yekaterinburg from Izhevsk.

In Karelia, a sentence was passed on 35-year-old Alevtin Starkov, who was found guilty of committing a crime under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of a minor, known to the perpetrator to be in a helpless state). By a court verdict, Starkov was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 20 years and 10 months to be served in a maximum security colony. The murder occurred on July 30, 2009 in the city of Belomorsk (Karelia).