One year passed from the moment of Vladimir Putin's ritual election as the president of the Russian Federation (he remained actual head of the state even on the post of the prime minister): Putin won on March, 4, 2012 the third presidential elections having gained 63,6% of votes – on the background of mass protests against him, mass protests which Russia didn't know for 20 years, actually, since disintegration of the USSR. Though whether it was possible to imagine 63 percent got by Gorbachev in 1991?

Putin's recent performance in the Ministry of Defence put everything on their places. Serdyukov won't be punished. He won't incur punishment for the theft in the Ministry of Defence. He won't be responsible for what he done in the Armed Forces.

Ensuring of reliable defense capability of Russia is a priority of state policy of the country leaders against growth of instability and conflicts in the world. It was declared by the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin at the concert devoted to Defender’s Day. "Instability grows in huge regions of the world. We have to be ready to protect our country and its citizens at any time, to be able to predict situation in the perspective and to develop military potential according to it," — Putin told.

Do you know what for this day is necessary in general? Now I will tell - it has to promote "poverty eradication, providing people with full employment and decent work, achievement of equality of men and women, as well as establishment of social welfare and social justice for all..." Enough, nothing more, otherwise I am afraid I will drop poor man's tear.

On Tuesday February, 19 Presidential Council on Inter-Ethnic Relations will discuss a question of development of the Declaration of the National Unity of people of Russia. The offer was made by the deputy of the State Duma from "United Russia" and a member of council Alexey Zhuravlyov. According to him, declaration has to become a social pact and consolidate the concept "Russian nation" and "multinational population". Zhuravlyov is convinced that peoples of Russia have to agree that they make one nation.

The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin demands to act resolutely at neutralization of extremists and to block attempts of radicals to use possibilities of the Internet for promotion. "It's necessary to work most resolutely at neutralization of certain extremist structures , to block attempts of radicals to use possibilities of information technologies, resources of the Internet and social networks for promotion," — Putin told at enlarged meeting of FSB board.

The State Duma forbade to smoke in restaurants, entrance halls and even in long-distance trains, having adopted on Tuesday in the last, third reading rigid "antismoking" law. The law which officially is called "About Health Protection of Citizens from Influence of Surrounding Tobacco Smoke and Consequences of Tobacco Consumption" was adopted almost unanimously: 441 deputies from 450 voted pro, only one was contra.

Defendant Ivan Moseev gave evidences today in Octyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk where case on initiation of hostility to ethnic group "The Russians" is heard. He presented extrajudicial linguistic research carried out by specialists of the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Lobachevsky in which, as well as earlier in the report of the expert of Northern (Arctic) Federal University, is stated that in attributed to him phrase there are no "appeals to discrimination of citizens on the basis of their ethnic origin". Moseev reported about it to the Interregional Human Rights Association "Agora" himself.

Mass media found out that Vladimir Putin, having made indicative roast in Sochi for failure to meet terms of building of the Olympic objects and overexpenditure, dismissed wrong Bilalov. Object "Mountain Roundabout" inspected by the president is erected by the company called “Krasnaya Polyana” and Mahomed Bilalov acts as minority shareholder. However the president dismissed his older brother Ahmed, “Dozhd” reported on it on Thursday evening.

103 criminal prosecutions of network users, 208 facts of administrative pressure and 609 cases of restriction of access to sites were registered by legal analysts of Interregional Association of Human Rights "Agora" in 2012. They recorded 47 cyber attacks, 26 civil suits in reference to bloggers and 49 proposals of politicians and officials on Internet regulation for a year. For comparison in 2011 there were registered 38 criminal prosecutions, 173 facts of administrative pressure, 231 cases of restriction of access, 31 cyber attacks, 11 claims and 5 offers on Network regulation. Total number of the revealed violations of freedom of the Internet in comparison with last year grew almost 2,5 times (500 - in 2011, 1197 - in 2012).

The candidate of senator-democrat John Forbes Kerri offered by Obama on a post of the state secretary got full approval in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Voting was unanimous. It is expected that the Senate will in full strength vote for his confirmation on this post later on Tuesday. Kerry will replace Hillary Clinton on the post of Secretary of State who intends to retire in the next few days.

As we already reported, Public Health Authority demanded to close nearly 600 Internet sites because they contain information about various ways of suicide. "We received 703 addresses from Rosinformation. We looked them through. 594 judgments on closing of sites and pages with information about ways of commission of suicides are passed, - quotes Interfax the head of Public Health Authority Gennady Onishchenko. - 342 pages were already removed. 187 pages are in the stage of response".

Decision on purchase of ships of "Mistral" type in France is "ridiculous", it caused loss to ship-building branch and to the state, the first deputy of Military-industrial Commission affiliated to the government of the Russian Federation Ivan Harchenko declared. "It is Serdyukov's initiative. It’s not the only loss which he caused to the branch and the state", - Harchenko told at the meeting of the League to Support Defense Industry in Moscow.

The head of the district authority of Northern Butovo Stanislav Pugachev suggested citizens to participate in snow cleaning to solve the problem of cleaning of the Moscow streets. Pugachev placed special address to the locals on portal of his region. "I have big request to you to help and support our utility services in the circumstances concerned… to come out to the yards and to help our yard keepers who really are dropping from fatigue. We wait for those who wish to spend Sunday actively, to get acquainted with interesting people, to breathe fresh air and to work in housing and communal services (even if for one day)," — the official wrote.

Just now editor-in-chief of Forum.msk Anatoly Baranov was called by our author, known political activist of left-wing views Nikolay Nikolaev and reported that he and Denis Bilunov, known political activist of liberal views and their mutual Tajik friend (citizen of Russia) was detained by police officers during lunch in cafe.

Authorities of the capital coordinated with civil activists carrying out of the procession on January, 19th in the center of Moscow in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova who were killed in 2009. The head of the department of regional security of the City Hall Alexey Mayorov reported to "Interfax" about it. According to him, some questions still remain but they can be solved routinely. Procession is authorized to proceed from Tverskaya Street to Nikitskye Vorota.

The state program of the Russian Federation "Space activity of Russia for 2013 - 2020" provides development of technologies of interplanetary flights and planetary activity of a person. In particular, creation of the “perspective piloted transport system capable to provide flights of a person to the Moon" is planned, - spoken in the document placed on a site of Roskosmos. Space missile system Angara-A5 has to be created, objects to be modernized and effective operation of the spaceports Plesetsk and Baikonur to be provided as a result of implementation of the state program. Angara should be created by 2015 and by 2018 – the second turn of objects of the new Russian spaceport "Vostochny".

Locals in the Aksaysky district of the Rostov region burned with the Caucasians, it broke out against banal household conflict because of the girl. Participants of slaughter are in hospital. Just yesterday there was a message that there was a fight between young people in the village Rassvet. According to preliminary information: three residents of Rostov and three inhabitants of the Aksaysky district peacefully drank in cafe. A quarrel flashed as a match. Squabble began, weighty "arguments" followed, knifes flashed in the hands of the participants.

Coordination Council offered Moscow Mayor’s Office compromise variant of a route of "March against Rascals", activists agree to process from Trubnaya Square along the Boulevard Ring to metro station Kropotkinskaya. Officials offered such route during negotiations on December, 15th. Then negotiations failed and the action wasn't coordinated as a result. The news are not very interesting and important, simply there are no other serious events. What’s, generally, difference what route Moscow Mayor’s office will allow?

People's deputy, the vice speaker of the State Duma Sergey Zheleznyak gave an answer to the slanderer and foreign agent Alexey Navalny on his page in the social network Facebook, the last earlier published in his diary in network a big post with data on property of the elect and information about places of study of his daughters. According to the agent and slanderer, Zheleznyak affirming that "it is important that such values as love to own country, patriotism were formed since childhood and were integral part of process of education and formation of citizen" sent three of his four daughters to study abroad — to London and Switzerland.