TODAY: Plans for Navalny rally gather strength; Oleg Kashin takes complaint over case to ECHR; Ekho Moskvy to receive Sochi treatment? Rouble rebounds somewhat with soft capital controls; S&P warning over junk status; Ukraine’s rejection of non-aligned status met with Kremlin disapproval.

29,000 people have now used a new Facebook page announcing a rally in support of embattled opposition activist Alexei Navalny, to pledge they will attend, with 4,500 more saying ‘maybe.’ Journalist Oleg Kashin who was the victim of a vicious attack in 2010 which left him in a coma, has filed a complaint against Russian investigators with the European Court of Human Rights for ‘inaction‘ during their investigation.  The shareholders of liberal-oriented radio station Ekho Moskvy have elected a new CEO: Mikhail Demin, the former PR director of the Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, despite efforts of minority shareholders to elect former chief executive Yury Fedutinov, who was fired earlier this year.  The Russian government has instituted a new set of new media restrictions on works ‘promoting a cult of violence and brutality‘, a move criticised by the head of the Kremlin’s rights council, Mikhail Fedotov.  62% of Russians believe governmental order is more important than ensuring the protection of human rights.  HRW reports on how the ‘foreign agent’ law has affected NGOs in Russia.