Most Muscovites view the hastily adopted amendments to the law on rallies negatively. Of the city residents surveyed by the Levada Center, 39% were "somewhat negative" and 28% "strongly negative"—67% in total. Supporters of the initiative account for 19% in the capital; of these, 8% view the higher fines and tougher law "entirely positively" (13% were undecided). 21% of respondents believe that in this way the authorities are "trying to maintain order and calm," while 68% are convinced that "the authorities are afraid of growing protest activity" (11% were undecided). The sociologists also found that protest actions create "serious problems" for only 3% of Moscow residents, and some inconvenience for 14%. Meanwhile, 64% see "no problem at all" with holding rallies in the city center. And 15% said that "these problems are invented by the authorities in order to obstruct protest actions." Notably, government representatives have explained the difficulties faced by protest organizers precisely as a desire to preserve residents’ peace and quiet. For example, Vladimir Putin warned that citizens are angered by demonstrations held where "people want to go to their dacha on Friday" (a country house or summer cottage) (see Kommersant, May 31, 2010). After the winter protests, the Moscow authorities began calculating the damage rallies had allegedly caused the city (see Kommersant, March 12), and one of the pretexts for breaking up the opposition camp "Occupy Abai" was complaints from residents of Chistye Prudy (see Kommersant, May 17). It is worth noting that 7% of Muscovites disapprove of the peaceful May protests, 5% say they are "fed up" with them, and 21% are indifferent; at the same time, 15% respect the participants’ position, while 18% view them with approval and another 18% with interest. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1962381 Yet another confirmation that the authorities in general, and deputies in particular, now represent no one except Churov (Vladimir Churov, then head of Russia’s Central Election Commission). The Moscow City Duma has 35 deputies, 32 of them are from United Russia. To put it mildly, this does not very accurately reflect Muscovites’ political preferences. Within the DMP, we need to make a leaflet for mass posting around Moscow, with roughly the following text: 300,000 rubles (about 300,000 RUB) is the fine that United Russia will impose on you for taking part in a rally or picket. 150,000 rubles (about 150,000 RUB) is the fine to which United Russia sentenced its own party member Tsepovyaz, who took part in the murder of 12 people (including children who were burned alive) in the village of Kushchyovskaya. And every time the crooks-and-thieves crowd fines someone under their new law, the response should be a new wave of distributing such leaflets and stickers.