TODAY: Russia to ban adoptions by same-sex couples; Pussy Riot members ends hunger strike; freedom of assembly protesters detained; Russian Railways joint venture; Putin rebukes governor; U.S. delegation discusses security and Boston bombing; nuclear patrols to resume in southern seas; Rosneft loan banks still waiting for payback; exiled Guriev wins Sberbank seat.

An amendment to the foreign adoptions law, limiting adoptions to ‘traditional’ families – i.e., banning same-sex couples from adopting Russian children – will be submitted to the Duma this autumn.  Three men have been detained in Kamchatka on suspicion of carrying out a homophobic murder.  Maria Alyokhina, a jailed member of punk group Pussy Riot, has ended her hunger strike protest after 11 days, with collaborator Pyotr Verzilov alleging that prison officials ceded to her demands.  Roughly 25 people were detained in Moscow on Friday for taking part in an unsanctioned protest against restrictions on the freedom of assembly.  An approved opposition march in support of political prisoners has been scheduled for June 12.  Russian Railways plans to sign a joint venture with Belarus and Kazakhstan later this month to handle container operations.  Pictures allegedly showing the sprawling mansion owned by the state-run railway company’s head (and close ally of Vladimir Putin), Vladimir Yakunin, have been removed from a blogging website.  President Putin publicly rebuked the governor of Nizhny Novgorod last week in an argument over workers’ wages, ordering him ‘never to interrupt me again’.