TODAY: NATO notes Russia’s resumption of military build-up on Ukraine border; Naftogaz says Gazprom seeking an end to compensation contract; Australia unveils its Russia sanctions; Moscow promoting disinformation about fracking; Novak says South Stream partners under pressure; erotic LGBT movie scenes deemed child pornography.

In what NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called ‘a very regrettable step backwards’, Russia apparently is resuming its military build-up around the Ukrainian border, adding ‘at least a few thousand more’ troops to the area.  The renewed build-up is being interpreted by NATO as Russia’s desire to ‘keep the option to intervene further’.  Rasmussen also said that weapons and equipment used by separatists were coming from Russia, and accused it of destabilising the region.  The Daily Beast says that Vladimir Putin ‘is just getting started’ in Ukraine, and that the suspension of gas deliveries and the ensuing explosion at a pipeline in Poltava were both in direct retaliation for Ukraine’s advancements in battle.  Ukraine’s Naftogaz says Gazprom wants to end the contract under which Kiev is compensated if it has to use its underground gas storage sites to provide supplies to the EU; but Gazprom says that EU supplies traveling through Ukraine are safe.  In what the Human Rights Commissioner called ‘an unfriendly move’, Australia has introduced 11 sanctions against Russian companies and 50 against individuals, similar to those already imposed by Europe and the U.S.