TODAY: US congressman to make move on Magnitsky case; Stalin continues to cause outrage; focus turns to living conditions for veterans today; Medvedev calls Stalin regime ‘totalitarian’.  Obama keeps finger on reset button; puts civil nuclear agreement back on the table; Kadyrov pedestrian? new FSB law has sinister implications; Yury Luzhkov; gambling

The US is weighing in on the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, with one congressman pledging to introduce legislation that may repeal the visas of around 60 Russians connected with his death.  As preparations for Victory Day gain momentum, this article looks at the decades-long wait some veterans faced before receiving their state-pledged free apartments.  Reuters interviews a Red Army veteran who campaigns for the rights of ex-Soviet soldiers who did not take Russian citizenship, and therefore receive no state pay outs.  The Guardian has a picture gallery of the Victory Day rehearsals.  The parades will apparently see 10,500 Russian soldiers march for the first time alongside troops from the United States, France, Britain and Poland.  In total, more than 102,000 Russian troops will take part in military parades around the country.  An overview of reasons why the 65th anniversary celebrations are so monumental can be found here.  Memorial is asking that the St Petersburg Stalin bus be removed as the use of the leader’s image is ‘leading to a schism in society’;  a statue of the man of steel is also causing outcry in Ukraine.  Is the Stalinmobile even legal? asks this article.  Activists have also demanded that President Medvedev openly condemn the Soviet titan.  The President has told a TV interviewer on accusations of Stalin rehabilitation: ‘it cannot be said that Stalinism has returned to our everyday life… This is absolutely ruled out,‘  and commented that ‘ […] the regime that was built in the Soviet Union… cannot be called anything other than totalitarian.’   The President has also reportedly urged for the opening of secret military archives.  The Guardian offers an interesting look at war correspondent Vazzily Grossman, one veteran whose memory the government has not chosen not to honor.