An average Russian human rights activist has a very hard fate. The society does not understand him, he defends abstract rights, and he is devoid of the Western grants and is never invited to appear in TV programs. However, some of them contrive to break the information blockade. “I think that military vehicles at the parade are unnecessary for the country that tries to show its peaceful course of development,” one of them said. Putin responded immeidately

02.05.2008
Russia’s second President Vladimir Putin, whose presidency ends on May 7, was included on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of the world. It is worthy of note that the magazine has already named Putin Person of the Year in 2007. In addition, Putin was put on the second place in the “Leaders and Revolutionaries” after the Dalai Lama

28.04.2008
Russia’s outgoing and would-be presidents have recently participated in a ceremony to unveil a memorial to Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin. Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev came to Moscow’s Novodevichye Ñ emetery to pay homage to Boris Yeltsin who died a year ago. In his speech Putin marked the place of his predecessor in the history of the country, and in fact he acknowledged the importance of Yeltsin’s epoch for the chosen way of development. According to Putin, Russia is still following that way

24.04.2008
“On behalf of the mayor and the government of Moscow I herewith declare that the government of the city will act decisively, as it did during the previous years, to cease the attempts of holding these public events, because the society in it’s absolute majority does not accept this kind of manifestations, the gay lifestyle and their philosoly,” a high-ranking Moscow official said