TODAY: New charges pending for Greenpeace activists; Putin submits proposal to dissolve Supreme Arbitration Court; next year’s Olympics ‘could flop’; Netherlands apologises as Russia threatens to extend embargo; IMF says economy out of ideas; massive wealth inequality.

Russian investigators are expected to press new charges against some of the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists detained in connection with a protest at the Prirazlomnaya oil rig, after allegedly finding narcotics (‘presumably poppy straw and morphine’) aboard the Greenpeace vessel.  Greenpeace Russia ridiculed the allegations: ‘The Investigative Committee ‘found’ narcotics. We are waiting for it to find an atomic bomb and a striped elephant.’  Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace International, has written to President Vladimir Putin requesting a meeting to discuss the recent developments.  Putin has submitted legislation that would abolish the Supreme Arbitration Court and replace it with the Supreme Court.  The criminal probe against VKontakte founder Pavel Durov has been halted.  Gazprom will supply discounted gas to a Ukrainian tycoon (36% cheaper than the gas supplied to Ukraine) for underground storage.