Oleg Mitvol says that his dismissal by acting Moscow Mayor Vladimir Resin is ‘completely illegal‘, as the law states that officials cannot be dismissed whilst on sick leave.  Former Mayor Yury Luzkhov may have already found a new job at the University of Moscow in the Major City Management department.  Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that Luzhkov failed to publish a quarter of his decrees (many of which apparently related to tenders won by his wife’s construction company), which is against the law.  Bloomberg reports on VTsIOM’s survey which suggested that Luzhkov’s dismissal was supported by 66% of Russians, and credits the Kremlin’s media campaign for swaying public opinion.  Yulia Latynina says that ‘it was Luzhkov […] who helped transform the Moscow mayoral post into Putin’s hand puppet.‘  The next Mayor will have better relations with the government than his predecessor ‘because the next mayor will be appointed by the president‘.  The leader of the Yabloko opposition party, Sergei Mitrokhin, was detained earlier this week for protesting the construction of a highway on the outskirts of Sochi, but was not charged.