Photo: Valentina Romanova/PublicPost A rally was held on the Champ de Mars in St. Petersburg against the inaction of law enforcement agencies. The organizer of the action was the National Democrats movement, and the reason was the tragic death of St. Petersburg resident Grigory Kochnev. He died on December 17, 2011 on the Ring Road under unclear circumstances. According to law enforcement officers, Kochnev committed suicide by stabbing himself five times in the chest.

From Facebook by Vladimir Frolov: "Today, a conference was held by the Orenburg regional branch of the Just Russia party in the building of the RSM. The former chairman of the RO Mitin Council on the eve of the conference, on January 25, was expelled from the party by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the party. He was not admitted to the conference. He held" his "conference", restored himself in the party and "elected" in the foyer of the second floor, and he was "elected" to the party.

Once, one architect took a job at home and, until late at night, tried to glue a model of a future skyscraper-sword from cardboard. But his dream was silent and it was not possible to finish the matter. In the morning, the little son of the architect saw an incomplete model on the table and decided to help his father, sticking children's cubes to the project.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading another shameful law. It will be a decide whether residents of the region’s direct elections of their governor are worthy of the regional election or is worth taking this right from them, there will be deputies of regional legislative assemblies. http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2013/01/23_a_4938353.shtml Kostroma deputies gave their answer to this dubious initiative, refusing to support it.

According to Evgeny Chuprunov in his material , a sociological study is being conducted in Veliky Novgorod, the purpose of which is to find out the preferences of the townspeople on the eve of the mayor’s elections. However, from the proposed candidates, only two can be called real applicants for the mayoral chair - Bobryshev and Buketov. Most of the Novgorodians simply do not know the rest, for example, Varukhin Jr. only has a surname known thanks to his father.

In Moscow, a drunk policeman caused a fatal accident. As reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the shift manager of the duty unit of the Special Purpose Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was involved in an accident on Leninsky Prospekt at about 8 am. The policeman, having lost control, drove into oncoming traffic, where he collided with two cars and a trolleybus. As a result of the incident, one person died.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The law on the prohibition of "propaganda of homosexuality" adopted by the State Duma in the first reading outraged not only the LGBT community, but caused a violent reaction of journalists and bloggers. On the eve, while the State Duma supporters of the new law beat gay activists, no less passions were boiling on blogs. PublicPost selected the most balanced opinions of journalists and bloggers. Grigory Okhotin, journalist : “We live in prison.

At the first “Civil Forum” in 2013, a small revolution took place. For the first time in the history of the Global Fund meetings, the authorities suffered a fiasco. We can say a lot that the “Civil Forum” is aimed at dialogues and communication, but let’s be realistic - people come to the forums to tell the authorities about problems, to be heard and to understand what the authorities want outside of offices, official comments and all this pretense.

Photo: ITAR-TASS One of the veterans of the human rights movement, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Valery Abramkin, died in Moscow. The head of MHC Lyudmila Alekseeva reported this to Interfax. According to her, Abramkin had been ill for a long time. “He had not left the house for a long time, he had a severe form of tuberculosis, but he fought,” Alekseeva said. “Very sad, wonderful person,” she added.

The United Russia faction in the YaOD has decided on a candidate for the post of chairman of the regional Duma. This candidate was Ilya Osipov, a member of the YaOD, acting. O. Secretary of the regional branch of the United Russia party. The vote was not unanimous. 22 out of 33 votes were cast for Ilya Osipov. Andrey Krutikov was considered as an alternative candidate. It was interesting to read the comments on Facebook about this faction’s decision.

Attended the Belgorod Civic Forum (active bloggers and social activists of the region + specially invited city administration officials). Forum topic: “The situation with the possible transfer of the Lenin monument from the central square to the central boulevard and the preservation of historical diversity as such.” I am sure that in an average Russian city, an unadministered meeting of bloggers and officials on any stated topic would focus on posing and discussing urban problems.

Photo: Reuters The Egyptian army has been deployed to Port Said, where riots broke out after the death sentence was handed down to those accused in the stadium pogrom case in February 2012. According to Al Jazeera, all entrances to the city are blocked. Seven people were killed in the clashes, including two police officers. According to the BBC , after the verdict, relatives of the accused tried to storm the local prison.