TODAY: Editor of Lenta.ru replaced; Navalny violates house arrest for Ukraine blog post; Putin dissatisfied with growth rates, investors wary; Russia to allow Ukrainian inspectors along the border; Kerry to meet Lavrov in London; Moscow sending warplanes to Belarus.

The owner of independent news website Lenta.ru has fired its chief editor, Galina Timchenko, in connection with complaints over the site’s coverage of Ukraine, and will be replaced by the ‘malleable former editor of ‘a staunchly pro-Kremlin website’. Lenta’s editorial team issued a statement in response which called the move ‘a violation of the law on mass media, which rules out any censorship’; many journalists are apparently planning to resign to avoid working with Timchenko’s replacement, and said that the move did not come entirely as a surprise.  Reporters Without Borders says Russia’s model of internet freedom is ‘absolutely terrible’.  Opposition figure Alexei Navalny has violated the terms of his house arrest by posting a blog entry condemning Russia’s occupation of Crimea.  President Vladimir Putin is not satisfied by current and forecasted growth rates.  Sberbank has postponed a high-profile investment conference due to volatility caused by the situation in Ukraine as investors attempt to predict the result of the various economic sanctions that are currently being threatened.  The Independent notes the sway that the BRICs have on the world economy, saying that the Ukraine crisis underscores the political risks of doing business with Russia.