TODAY: Activist lawyer faces stripping of status;  Lyudmila Alekseyeva to receive German award; Tsibili to name street after Politkovskaya; Gorbachev and Havel reminisce; new poll shows generation gap; extremism on the up; Medvedev cracks down on organized crime; leeches.

Solidarity member Evgeny Arkhipov is facing the threat of being disbarred by the qualifications commission of the Moscow City Bar, according to a November 3 press release from the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights.  The press release reports that the commission is of the opinion that lawyers do not have the right to undertake activism.  According to the Other Russia, Arkhipov believes that his status as a Solidarity member, and his role in organizing a local rally against widely-decried toll roads have impacted the decision.  The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, will be honored with the German Commander’s Cross for services to the Federal Republic of Germany.  An article in the Telegraph about Georgia’s use of the Russian language informs us that Tsibili authorities allegedly plan to name a street after slain activist Anna Politkovskaya.