PublicPost correspondent Veronika Komarova talked with the participants of the rally on Sakharov Avenue and found out how they see the future 2012.

His Excellency is the main revolutionary Kudrin (in combination, the chief architect of Putin region) tells us about our standing on Bolotnaya: ... people entered the rally (including, by the way, of the employees of numerous state-owned companies and institutions) who, it seems to me, wanted to say the following: “Dear power! Many of us came here for the first time, quite consciously and completely independently. We have something to lose.

After the Greek court decided to arrest the rector of the Vatopedi monastery, Archimandrite Ephraim, from where the belt of the Virgin Mary was brought to Russia, today the archimandrite himself will come to the internal affairs bodies, Interfax reports, citing a representative of the monastery. Greek police suspect him of economic offenses.

Well, a new victory! When planning, we underestimated the turnout for Bolotnaya by about three times; and then they also underestimated the turnout for Sakharov by three times. In my opinion, it was between 150 and 200 thousand. If you remember, the Nazis brought out their own people there, and people stood according to the markings, loosely, did not occupy the entire avenue, and this was called 50 thousand. But this is not the main thing: it is clear that there were a LOT of people.

On December 24 in Ufa, despite snowfall and wind, about 200 people took part in an authorized rally organized by the regional branch of the Yabloko party and a number of public associations in Bashkiria, according to police, Interfax reports. The protesters gathered in the parking lot in front of the Russian Drama Theater in Ufa, opposite the city mayor's office, since the favorite recent venue for mass protests - the area near the main staircase of the theater - turned out to be fenced off.

On December 24, an authorized picket of Cossacks of the Novocherkassk Cossack District under the leadership of Ataman Andrei Demchenko took place on Ermak Square in Novocherkassk, reports the portal 161.ru. The organizer was also the youth Cossack association "Donets" NPO "VKO VVD", which is headed by Ilya Loboda. The total number of picket participants was up to 100 people.

An authorized rally against the election results took place on Saturday, December 24, in the center of Tyumen on the Square of Harmony and Unity, Interfax reports. The rally was organized by a council of initiative groups and citizens of Tyumen; according to them, about 800 people took part in the event.

The organizers of the rally for fair elections claim that more than 20 thousand people gathered on Sakharov Avenue, the police say about 15 thousand, Interfax reports. “There is no doubt that there are already at least 20 thousand participants at the rally, even more,” said one of the organizers of the rally, his co-host Vladimir Ryzhkov. Almost every participant in the rally holds in his hand either a white balloon, a poster or a flag of the organization to which he belongs.

The authorized rally “For Fair Elections” took place in Perm without violations and, according to police officers, gathered about 500 people. “About 500 people took part in the protest. About 200 police officers were involved in protecting the event. It took place without violations,” a representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory told the Interfax agency.

Everyone decided that the government’s response to the rallies was Medvedev’s vague proposals in his farewell message and a strange bill submitted to the Duma. So this is not so. And Medvedev is in the past, and elections are in the past, and initiatives are in the past. And the rallies have something to do with the past.

In the Novosibirsk region, where fragments of the Meridian spacecraft crashed the day before, eight fragments of the satellite were discovered, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies in the region. According to him, eight fragments of the Meridian satellite have already been discovered in the Ordynsky district of the Novosibirsk region.

The Samara opposition held an authorized rally against fraud in the State Duma elections on December 24 in the city center, near the Sports Palace, not far from the buildings of the regional government and the Duma. “The rally was agreed upon. It passed without incident or arrests. According to our data, no more than 600 people were present at the rally,” the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Samara Region told the Interfax agency.

While a rally of thousands was taking place on Sakharov Avenue, members of United Russia commented on it on the party’s website. Most of the "United Russia" supporters noted that the opposition is weak due to the absence of a leader and that the wave of rallies is subsiding, since people have received a dialogue with the authorities.

Three authorized rallies against election fraud were held in Kurgan on Saturday, December 24, Interfax reports. The first rally was held by the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; it began at 11.30 (Moscow time) and lasted about half an hour.

Law enforcement officers detained several activists of the Coalition of Participants of the Orange (Orange) Revolution (KUPR), who were holding a theatrical rally in the Kiev “Passage” in support of opposition protesters in Moscow, Sergei Melnichenko, chairman of the board of KUPR, told the Interfax agency by telephone.