One of the main participants in the 2012 revolution, the coordinator of the Left Front movement A. Sakhnin told the full version of the events on Bolotnaya Square. When in 2011 it became known that V.V. Putin would be the main candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation, battles began to boil on the Internet, but it was quiet on the streets. Very quiet. Although even then the protest movement in Russia became widespread, and soon the whole country learned that it had an opposition. Soon she learned about the fate of the revolutionary in Russia... The whole history of the opposition movement of 2011-2012 is told in A. Sakhnin's book "Swamp Revolution."