The rally “For Fair Elections” was held on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. The participants protested against ballot rigging in the elections to the State Duma on December 4.

The officials of Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the meeting was attended by about 30 thousand people. According to the organizers of the rally about 120 thousand people came to protest. The symbols of protest were white chrysanthemums and white ribbons. Photos by Ilya Varlamov.

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Our first post about Soviet space propaganda received a lot of attention so we decided to make the second part. All the posters are available in high quality (clickable).

Glory to the Fatherland of Heroes!

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Several interesting posters of historical epoch.

Second part of Soviet space propaganda posters.

Fatherland! You lighted the star of progress and peace. Glory to the science, glory to the labor! Glory to the Soviet regime!

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LiveJournal (LJ) is a popular in Russia blog platform. In recent years the community has become actively involved in social and political life of the country strengthening growing Russian civil society. LJ is the regular object of various attacks.

Another attack by hackers began on April 4 about 14 pm Moscow time. Main objects of attack were top bloggers and communities. Thus, it can be said that the attack was aimed directly at the service itself. And the reason for the attack in this situation is more than obvious – someone wants very much to decrease the growing power of LJ society. It is believed that a DDoS-attack on LJ is coming from the structures related to Russian government.

According to public opinion polls, television controlled by the government remains the main source of information for the overwhelming majority of people and the Internet has become an outlet for those looking for independent evaluations and uncensored information.

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Great cartoon on the topic of the day made by Zhgun.

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Tags: music video · Russian TV

Russian artist Valentin Kalininskiy gives us the unique opportunity to see that the rulers of present day Russian have something in common with the rulers of Russian Empire of the past.

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The following fridge magnet with the leaders of the country helps Russian people to be inspired with the idea of so called “tandemocracy”.

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While being in Singapore the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev had a video conference with the situational center of Russian Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters  about the explosion of ammunition depot in Ulianovsk city. The President was using the new system of visual communication.

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The general outside and inner views of Russian Parliament (State Duma).

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