TODAY: Terror attempt thwarted in Stavropol; F.B.I. sending personnel to Sochi for Games; European Court orders Chechnya payout; Ukraine signs price reduction with Gazprom; Mokhnatkin charged; Pussy Riot attend trial broadcast; bank loses license.

Police are hunting for suspected terrorists after five (or six, depending on the source) dead bodies were found in vehicles in the Stavropol city of Pyatigorsk, ‘booby-trapped’ with bombs.  (Pyatigorsk is about 300km from Sochi.) Cossacks will be patrolling the Sochi Olympics next month, with security forces now on terror alert.  A senator is proposing an amendment to the Criminal Code that would allow law enforcement officials to be jailed for 15 years should a terrorist attack be carried out successfully.  A private U.S. ‘crisis-response firm’ will be on standby in the event of an emergency situation during the Games; the F.B.I. also reportedly is sending personnel to Sochi.  A newborn baby in the resort city has been registered with the name ‘Olympiada’.  The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay $2.6 million to Chechen families who have lost loved ones to disappearances that Moscow has failed to prove it was not responsible for.