The president thanked veterans for what was done by them and also for that contribution which they brought in relations between Russia and China. In their turn the Russian and Chinese veterans shared memoirs about events of World War II, about how they struggle with Medvedev. "We admire the Soviet supreme commander in chief comrade Stalin but never had possibilities to see him and the more so to take photo with him. Now, when we already lived long life we met the president of Russia and we are inexpressibly glad, we would like to take photo with you", - one of the representatives of the Chinese veterans told at the end of the meeting.

Leaders of liberal opposition Michael Kasyanov and Boris Nemtsov agreed about creation of coalition "For Russia without Arbitrariness and Corruption". The coalition included the Russian People's Democratic Union, movement "Solidarity", movement "For Democratic Choice" of Vladimir Milov and Republican Party of Russia of Vladimir Ryzhkov. It is supposed that political party will be created on the basis of coalition.
Participants of a coalition haven't agreed about a figure of the uniform opposition candidate yet.

While employees of Public Prosecution Office think "where to begin", I will propose them "Primakov's list" published by "New Newspaper" already in 1999. It's "interesting" that surnames of Luzhkov and Baturina are already present in the list. How is it possible to explain the fact that professional of the "second oldest trade" underwent sudden clarification only yesterday? Why do they see only two surnames? To what extend "Primakov's list" which contains 162 surnames is topical after 11 years?  

Chief of Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow V.Kolokoltsev declared to the journalists that it's necessary to tighten responsibility for carrying out of meetings in Moscow not agreed with authorities considerably. At that V.Kolokoltsev proposed to use experience of some European countries having made reference to the fact that bit penalty and even imprisonment threatens there for non-sanctioned actions. "If to take France - up to 3 years of imprisonment and penalty up to 45 thousand Euro, how could we react using only methods of persuation?" - V.Kolokoltsev said.

The session of working group on problems of civil society headed by the adviser of the president of the USA Michael McFaul and Vladislav Surkov from the Russian part will take place today. Michael McFaul already suggested to bring a question about freedom of meetings in the summons of forthcoming session of the working group. There was inconvenient situation yesterday at a meeting of McFaul and Burns with legal experts: - Where's Lev Ponomarev? - He is occupied now, he washes toilet...

Not less than 300 people took part in action "Strategy-31" on Triumphal Square, about 100 people are detained. Militia acted more rigidly in comparison with last action. It was almost impossible to walk along Bolshaya Sadovaya from metro station Mayakovskaya. Almost all organizers of a meeting are detained. Coordinator of the movement "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov, Boris Nemtsov, Konstantin Kosyakin and Eduard Liminov are detained.