TODAY: Putin backs amnesty for prisoners; Medvedev calls for order in Ukraine and Lavrov warns against interference; Kerry promises support for Moldovan winemakers; Supreme Court rejects Navalny election appeal; Serdyukov to be charged; Yota’s smartphone attracts attention; Duma fistfights, HRW.

The Kremlin’s human rights adviser Mikhail Fedotov apparently speculated that an amnesty for prisoners, publicly backed by President Vladimir Putin on television yesterday, could very well include former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the jailed members of Pussy Riot; but Putin’s spokesman warned that Fedotov’s suggestions were ‘premature’.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wants ‘stability and order’ in Ukraine; Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ‘encourage[d] everybody not to interfere’.  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t merely show his support for Moldova by paying the country a visit; he visited one of the wineries whose imports Russia banned earlier this year, promising to bring Moldovan winemakers to the U.S. for marketing opportunities, and generally pledging U.S. support.  Reports say Kerry and Lavrov greeted each other ‘warmly’ before talks in Brussels yesterday, but no details of their discussion have emerged.  Regional elections watchdog Golos is one of the nongovernmental organisations to receive a Kremlin grant.