TODAY: Putin orders infrastructure overhaul; blogger charged; Rogozin praises cooperation with NATO. Abkhazia warns Georgia over blockade; criminal charges for ‘negligent’ Ingushetia police; fire at rights organization HQ.  Medvedev warns United Russia against complacency.  Flag owners beware.

Prime Minister Putin has ordered a review of all of Russia’s Soviet-era structures in light of the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station disaster.  Russia’s roads, airplanes, and pipelines have all shown signs of being dangerously outdated in recent times. Putin also promised payouts of $31,300 to each of the dead worker’s families, to be paid by Rushydro.  The New York Times reports that blogger Mikhail Afanasyev, who questioned the government’s handling of the disaster, has been charged with libel.  Envoy Dmitry Rogozin has lauded NATO’s role in the rescue of cargo ship the Arctic Sea.  Putin’s order that the government investigate the seizure of two Russian cargo ships in China has led commentators to wonder whether the government is attempting to move attention away from the Sea’s unresolved mysteries.