Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region on Wednesday adopted in the second reading the draft law “On the regional budget for 2012 and for the planning period of 2013 and 2014.” According to the press service of the parliament, 32 deputies voted “for” the project, no “against” and two abstained.

Something happened that the Kremlin was afraid of and tried to prevent at all costs. Something happened that brought the regime to the brink of complete collapse. For the first time in the modern history of Russia, all opposition political forces joined forces and jointly supported the general civil protest movement. Just look what's happening... The Kremlin’s “targeted work” with the leaders of parliamentary parties no longer works.

Probably the majority of those who were at the police station from which Navalny came out felt this atmosphere, that now the future president of the country had come out from behind bars. And it’s not about the flowers, not about the applause, and not about the crowd of reporters, it’s also about Navalny himself. In what he said, how he spoke and with what passion he spoke. He actually went to jail in one country and was released in another.

Involving collectors in collecting debts on utility bills creates the preconditions for massive violations of citizens' rights, says Alexander Kapustin, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Smolensk Region. Speaking on Wednesday at a meeting of the regional public chamber, Kapustin said that in September 2011 an open competition was held in Smolensk for the provision of collection services to collect debts from citizens for housing and communal services.

Alexey came out very on time and everything worked out very cordially. Maybe it’s good that he wasn’t involved in this ugly dispute that was going on

Yesterday evening, in one of the largest banquet halls in Chelyabinsk, a “government tree” was held - a New Year’s reception for the authorities of the Chelyabinsk region. I quote Ura.ru : " The celebration brought together leaders of the region, departments of federal departments and regional ministries, security officials, heads of city districts and municipal districts. Not everyone received invitations ..

Pro-Kremlin youth movements have united into the Headquarters of United Actions under the slogan “V for Vladimir,” Lenta.ru reports. He will “coordinate the political and ideological work of organizations, conduct large-scale actions and direct actions, campaigns on social networks” in support of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections. The new project involves “Local”, “Young Russia”, “New People” and “Group of Changes”. They chose a white glove as their symbol.

Investigative authorities of the Saratov region have brought final charges against local resident Kadriya Mizinova, a suspect in the abduction and subsequent murder of the 12-year-old daughter of local businesswoman Ilnara Yagudina. Mizinova was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: “Abduction of a minor,” “Murder involving kidnapping” and “Extortion on an especially large scale, ” Interfax reports.

Today, in the City Duma, in the presence of colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Strokoye and Fadeev, agreements were reached on a rally and procession in a place proposed by the organizers (the passing part of Kuibyshev St. at the Ural Volunteer Square): The picture was sent by scout_museum The start of the rally at 14:30. The collection for the demonstration at 14:00. The nomination of the demonstration towards the rally at 14:20. Only 100 people are announced to the demonstration!

One more touch to the issue of financing the opposition in general and the upcoming rally by the enemies of our people. Yesterday, the Yandex.Money company released an application for users of the social network Facebook, with which you can easily and quickly raise money for a charity event or rally.

Representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev with a request not to send troops into Moscow on the day of the rally on December 24, Gazeta.RU reports. “We ask you to show respect for the residents of the capital and refuse to send additional police and army units into Moscow on the day of the rally on December 24.

I’m ready to argue with many things that Ksenia Sobchak says in an interview with Elephant . Her assessment of the protest movement is reflected by a complete lack of familiarity with this very movement. She really did not notice that all those people from the past who today take the wave that arose after the elections as their comeback to power and politics do not have the slightest influence on the minds of the protesters and the general course of events.

In Stavropol, public assistant to the head of the city administration Leonid Kozlov, suspected of attempted fraud, was arrested. On Wednesday, the court granted the investigation's request to select a preventive measure for Kozlov in the form of detention. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Stavropol Territory, he was also charged with committing a crime under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 4 art.

On December 24, on the day of the rally on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, a number of public transport routes will be changed, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans. On December 24, from 12:00 until the end of the event, trolleybuses of route No. 14 will run from the Severyanin platform to Banny Lane, then along the route of trolleybus N9 to Lubyanka Square, trams of routes No.

The executive director of the News media holding, which includes the Life news portal, Ashot Gabrelyanov, believes that it is better for law enforcement agencies to check for illegal actions of Solidarity co-chairman Boris Nemtsov, rather than publishing the “wiretapping” of his telephone conversations, Interfax reports. “First of all, I want to note that we are law-abiding citizens, a law-abiding company, and we will comply with any order from government bodies,” Gabrelyanov said.