The events of the end of 2011 – the beginning of 2012 have allowed to talk about the Russia’s breakthrough in the development of the civil society and the real political opposition. Above all, it comes to the protest movement in Russia after the December elections, which, as everyone knows, remembered that not only the results, and the protests against the results of these elections. However, these protests were significantly different from those, which were in previous years in Russia – they were the most massive in the last 20 years. Of course, there are many reasons for this phenomenon, particular it should be mentioned about the changes, that have affected the forms of the protest behavior in Russia.

The events of the end of 2011 – the beginning of 2012 have allowed to talk about the Russia’s breakthrough in the development of the civil society and the real political opposition. Above all, it comes to the protest movement in Russia after the December elections, which, as everyone knows, remembered that not only the results, and the protests against the results of these elections. However, these protests were significantly different from those, which were in previous years in Russia – they were the most massive in the last 20 years. Of course, there are many reasons for this phenomenon, particular it should be mentioned about the changes, that have affected the forms of the protest behavior in Russia.