February 9, 2011 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 9, 2011

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TODAY: Transport official sacked; tensions over run-up to and fall-out from Domodedovo attack; Lithuania concerned about Russian warheads; Lavrov wants Japanese protesters prosecuted; Navalny to be investigated; Yabloko activists detained. Medvedev wants to keep daylight savings all year round; Valentine’s Day banned in Belgorod.
Gennady Kurzenkov is no longer the head of the Federal Transportation Inspection Service; his dismissal by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin comes ‘at his own request‘, but the Moscow Times reports that he was ‘singled out as a scapegoat‘ for security failures at Domodedovo.  Terrorist attacks are not just about strong fundamentalist movements, writes Yulia Latynina, but ‘the shameful weakness of the West‘.  The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall criticizes Putin’s ‘blinkered policy‘ of ‘unthinking aggressiveness‘ in the Caucasus for ‘turn[ing] a containable local insurgency into an escalating regional war‘.  The brother and sister of the suspected Domodedovo bomber have been arrested.  A man injured during the attack says the government discharged him from the hospital before he was healed in order to avoid paying compensation.  A Dagestani man wanted in connection with a football murder claims that Moscow is rife with nationalists and hostile to foreigners.
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