Anti-government protest organizers in Kaliningrad are forming a new coalition, with the aim of ‘break[ing] the political monopoly of United Russia‘.  Piers Gardner will continue to be allowed to represent Yukos at the European Court of Human Rights, despite Russia’s calls for the record €71 ($98) billion claim case’s dismissal.  Gardner presented a 90-minute introduction speech yesterday, explaining that Yukos was transparent in its tax dealings.  The company refers to the Kremlin’s bankrupting of the firm as ‘disguised expropriation‘.  The Kremlin claims that the case was improperly filed.  The US has returned home a stolen silver pendant that once belonged to Russia’s last tsar, in a ‘conciliatory gesture‘ that the US Ambassador thinks will help the two countries ‘build a better relationship‘.