TODAY: Putin says Snowden must stop releasing U.S. secrets; Navalny launches mayoral campaign with speech; Justice Ministry says NGO checks are necessary; rights groups respond to new anti-homosexuality laws; Putin urges gas producers to team up against shale challenge; rocket crash.

President Vladimir Putin said again that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden must find a country in which to seek asylum and then leave Russia as soon as possible.  Putin says he will not hand Snowden over to the U.S., but that he must stop leaking sensitive information and ‘harming our American partners’.  The Federal Migration Service is denying reports that Snowden is seeking political asylum from Russia itself.  Opposition candidate for Moscow mayor, Alexei Navalny, launched his campaign yesterday with a half-hour speech slamming state theft and hypocrisy and pledging that he is ‘totally serious about this election’, before boarding a train to appear at his trial in Kirov. Some reports say he was joined by ‘100 supporters’, others say ‘hundreds’. The mother of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has spoken of her ‘contempt’ for Russia’s ‘KGB government’.