Photo: Andrey Stenin/RIA Novosti On April 6, a rally in support of the “prisoners of Bolotnaya” was held in Novopushkinsky Square in Moscow. The promotion was announced on Facebook, although not very actively. The organizers managed to coordinate the rally. In the end, everything went without incident. Members of the Constitutional Court of the opposition Sergei Davidis and Pyotr Tsarkov, relatives of those arrested in the Bolotnaya case, and their lawyers spoke.

Law enforcement agencies came to check the Murom branch of Memorial, Pavel Chikov, head of the interregional human rights organization Agora, said on Sunday. “In Murom, prosecutors came to the Memorial office. All employees are 75-80 years old. They demanded abstracts for a speech at a rally in memory of the repressed,” Chikov wrote on Sunday on his Twitter .

After the graduation of the solemn service in many churches of Khabarovsk, with the blessing of the Lord Ignatius, Metropolitan of Khabarovsk and Amamorsky, hundreds of airy balls were released into the sky. I note that this local tradition has been for several years. On the eve of the holiday, the information site of the Khabarovsk diocese reported: "The Annunciation means" good news.

Photo: Alexander Kryazhev/RIA Novosti Instead of a text written by writer Dina Rubina, on April 6 in Ulyanovsk they wrote a dictation about a local artist. "Total Dictation" - an all-Russian literacy test - has been taking place since 2004. All over Russia and in embassies abroad they write the same text. And only in Ulyanovsk, Governor Sergei Morozov decided to replace the dictation approved by the organizers. Allegedly, he was embarrassed that there was obscenity in the writer’s works.

Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany for a two-day visit. There, the Russian president will face protests and a difficult conversation with Chancellor Angela Merkel. In fact, according to the plan, Merkel and Putin are supposed to discuss the economy, but Merkel is expected to start talking about inspections of NGOs.

On March 31, elections for the head of the Zhukovsky urban district (city) were held in the Moscow region. Voting took place at 50 permanent polling stations and two temporary ones: at the city hospital (No. 659) and at the water utility company (No. 3573). About 250 people from the Citizen Observer, Sonar, and Voice projects were sent to the polling stations as observers. To coordinate actions, a joint headquarters and call center for observers were organized.

The Street Street Street Exhibition opened this time in the Kaliningrad Cinema "Zarya". By tradition, we not only introduce the audience to the work of street artists, but also conduct lectures and master classes. On the first day of our interactive program, the Zukclub team spoke about the history of Street Art, and Kaliningrad artist Alexei Medvedev taught to make 3Ds on the asphalt using a camera, crayons and ingenuity.

Viktor Prasolov talks about how the rally against the reconstruction of Leninsky Prospekt took place. PublicPost special correspondent Maria Eismont tells in her material how Yaroslavl celebrated the anniversary of the victory of the opposition candidate Urlashov in the mayoral elections and why the townspeople did not live better under the new mayor, but it was more fun.

The story of replacing the text of the total dictation in the Ulyanovsk region, it seems to me, is not a curiosity, not stupidity, and not a trifle. On the contrary, this is a very significant thing. This is the principle of functioning of today's government in miniature! Judge for yourself. What is total dictation?

A year ago, independent candidate Yevgeny Urlashov, a former member of United Russia, became the mayor of Yaroslavl, defeating the election of a candidate from United Russia. Today he states that the "EP" must generally eliminate in the territory of the Yaroslavl region.

Participants in Sunday's Ukrainian opposition rally gathered in Taras Shevchenko Park in the center of Kyiv, Interfax reports. According to observers, about 5 thousand participants gathered for the rally. They are holding state flags and flags with the symbols of the Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Front of Zmin and Svoboda parties, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reports. Interfax

Photo: Reuters The IV Congress of the Solidarity opposition movement opened on April 7 in Moscow, Interfax reports. One of the main issues of the congress will be elections to the governing bodies of the organization. At the same time, it is already known that one of the previous leaders, world chess champion Garry Kasparov, will definitely not be included in the political council, Alexander Ryklin, a member of the Solidarity political council, told Interfax.