TODAY: Occupy Abay camp dispersed; 20 detained; analysts discuss the new direction of the protest movement. Udaltsov released to face trial; new report finds Russia Europe’s main perpetrator of homophobia; ECHR awards mother in conscript death case. US-Russia diplomacy looking strained; Obama says will not attend Vladivostok APEC summit; new cabinet proposed but no names as of yet; Patriarch Kirill hits social media.

RFE/RL reports that a Moscow court has declared the Occupy Abay street camp illegal, providing the police with justification to dismantle it.  Apparently more than 20 people have been detained as law enforcement swept in on the encampment.  The Moscow Times reports on what the dispersed protestors plan to do next.  The most important development following the peaceful writer’s walk in Moscow on Sunday is that ‘whatever decision the authorities make, it will work against them’, says test march participant Yulia Latynina.  ‘[T]he regime is threatened by peaceful rallies with clearly defined political demands, where organizers maintain order and hand over provocateurs to the police’.  Not all commentators support these tactics; Lev Gudkov of the Levada Centre warns the Economist that actions like the test stroll ‘risk miring the opposition in a sort of “political infantilism.”   Andrew Ryvkin in the Guardian is another such naysayer.