TODAY: Policeman loses job after flagging up police corruption on Youtube address to Putin; Rusal harassing the press?; personal grudge alleged motive for Markelov murder; Moscow rights groups could lose premises.  Berlin wall collapse anniversary celebrations.  Medvedev interview with Der Spiegel tackles failed hopes of post-wall era, relationship with Putin.  Communists sweetening to the President? Land laws.

A whistleblowing police major from the city of Novorossiisk has been fired for posting an internet video appeal to Vladimir Putin urging him to tackle corruption in the police forces.  The police will launch an internal investigation into the accusations.  United Company Rusal is, according to the Moscow Times, leading a ‘terror campaign’ against journalists from the business newspaper Vedemosti, after it ran a story revealing the scale of the company’s monumental debts.  ‘Personal enmity’ is the reason that Nikita Tikhonov shot Stanislaw Markelov, according to the former’s lawyer, quoted here in the New York Times.  Journalist Anastasia Baburova was apparently not a premeditated target.  Moscow City Hall has asked the Moscow Arbitration Court to evict two Kremlin-critical rights groups, the Moscow Helsinki Group and Goryachaya Linia, the Moscow branch of the For Human Rights group, from their municipally-owned premises.