Photo: Publicpost Text: Maria Eismont The 28th day in Omsk they are on a hunger strike against lawlessness in law enforcement agencies and courts: of the 56 people who went on hunger strike on January 27, 15 remain on the ranks. Women are on hunger strike in the house of one of the participants in the action, men - in their apartments. On the 21st day of the hunger strike (they drink only sweetened water), the protesters switched to a rotational method: one week after another.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation received an appeal with a request to conduct a prosecutor's investigation into the fact of a "punk prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. According to Interfax , the author of the appeal is Muscovite Dmitry Pakhomov, vice-rector of the Orthodox Missionary School at the capital's Church of the Apostle Thomas, founded by priest Daniil Sysoev, who was shot dead by an Islamist in November 2010.

By evening, the ugly content of the song sung by feminists in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior became known. Coming to the house of an elderly and unfamiliar person in order to insult him obscenely is hardly a sign of intelligence or high culture (and the Moscow cathedral church is precisely the home of the Patriarch of Moscow). But for me, the question is not the qualification of this action on a good-bad scale. Everything is obvious here. Questions in the reaction of church people.

Topic: Lermontov rebelled. PublicPost spoke with parliamentary candidates who went on a hunger strike and, together with local residents, occupied the city hall in Lermontov as a sign of protest.

In Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), the memory of Artem Katsian, who made the first flight over Vladikavkaz on September 4, 1911, was immortalized, Interfax reports. “The honorary right to open it was given to the chairman of the Republican Council of War Veterans Soltan Kabolov, the chairman of DOSAAF Ruslan Bedoev and the chairman of the Erebuni national cultural center Vitaly Litvinov,” the press service of the mayor’s office reports.

Probably everyone already knows. If suddenly not, read http://www.pro-volgograd.com/novosti/rossiya/vg.-lermontov-proizoshel-zahvat-merii-zhitelyami.html A small provincial town rebelled. Ordinary townspeople, without the use of weapons, armed with their own willpower and belief in their rightness, seized the mayor's office. They achieved the fulfillment of all their initial demands solely by the power of words and their righteousness. The police went over to the side of the people.

Photo: Tatyana Ilyina The Fotodoc documentary photo at the Sakharov Museum announced the photographic contests "Civil Protest" and "Minorities" . PublicPost - an information partner of the competitions - spoke with the curator of Fotodoc Alexander Sorin about documentary photography in Russia and the problems that she explores. - What is the Fotodoc documentary photo center?

This post is part of Olga Allenova’s project “ What does the Caucasus think about the case of Mirzaev and Manezhka ” I'm not a very sporty person. The only sport that I like is too far from martial arts. Neither football nor wrestling ever caught my attention. But recently, my consciousness has almost been forced to be chained to these sports. My attention was drawn to football, or rather to big football fans, by the murder of one of them, Yegor Sviridov.

Baburin and Udaltsov reported at Finama that Medvedev admitted the rigging of the 1996 elections. Yeltsin did not win then. Then what was it, a coup d'etat, usurpation? Then the entire Russian statehood is going to hell, starting with the announcement of the results of the 1996 elections and ending with the upcoming March? Why did DAM do this?

United Russia proposed to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev candidates for the post of leader of the Republic of Tyva. As Interfax reports, the candidates were proposed by the chairman of the political council of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov, during a meeting with the head of state on Wednesday.

Happy upcoming holiday, dear defenders of the Fatherland! But in our country we have five of the most expensive defenders who have been tearing each other apart for the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of this very Fatherland for several months now.

The supervisory board of the CSKA hockey club on Tuesday dismissed the team's head coach Julius Shupler, who had led it since the spring of 2011, Interfax reports. Shupler's assistant Vyacheslav Butsaev was appointed acting head coach of the Army Men. It is he who will lead CSKA to the away match against Dynamo Moscow on Wednesday. The press service of the “army” club refuses to make any comments, urging them to follow the club’s official website.

The purchase of absentee ballots for voting in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation has been prevented in Michurinsk, Tambov region, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Leonid Ivlev told Interfax on Wednesday. According to him, the investigation into the situation began after one of the polling stations quickly ran out of absentee ballots.

This post is part of Olga Allenova’s project “ What does the Caucasus think about the case of Mirzaev and Manezhka ” The case of Rasul Mirzaev and Ivan Agafonov, in my opinion, is a domestic incident, of which there are, if not hundreds, then certainly dozens throughout Russia. And it attracted the attention of the masses only because, firstly, it took place in Moscow, and, secondly, one of the defendants was a famous Dagestan athlete.

At a meeting on Wednesday, the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region adopted amendments to the 2012 budget in three readings. As Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional government, deputies approved an increase in budget revenues and expenses by 3.6 billion rubles and 4.1 billion rubles, respectively.