TODAY: Bolotnaya protester sent into forced psychiatric care; court rejects Greenpeace appeal; Sweden backs Russia in Magnitsky row; Putin and Kerry agree on Syria; ties with Lithuania, Ukraine, Netherlands suffering; Deripaska writes on WTO; Navalny lambasts Yakunin; Tolokonnikova lawyers go to Federal Chamber.

Despite video footage and testimonials indicating that he was not part of the violence at the Bolotnaya Square clashes last year, Mikhail Kosenko has been sentenced to indefinite forced psychiatric treatment. Kosenko had been diagnosed with a mental illness back in 2003 following a head injury, but in his final statement to the court he said he was of sound mental state.  According to a Levada Centre poll, ‘55 per cent of Russians who knew about the Bolotnaya case viewed it as an attempt to intimidate opposition sympathisers.’  A court in Murmansk rejected bail appeals for two of the Greenpeace activists currently being held in detention, as Georgy Bovt ponders the political implications of the case.  The BBC visits the Prirazlomnaya oil rig that was the target of the activists.  The Greenpeace and Kosenko cases send a loud anti-protest message, says the Washington Post.  Sweden has ‘caved’ to pressure from Russia regarding the safe transit of William Browder – an enemy of Russia mainly for seeking justice for his former employee, Sergei Magnitsky.  Sweden says it cannot issue Browder a promise of safe passage, prompting the WSJ to accuse it of ‘act[ing] as Mr. Putin’s cat’s paw’.