January 10, 2013 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 10, 2013

100112TODAY: Razvozzhayev transferred to Siberian detention centre; adoption ban protest approved; extremists target Kremlin; Russians worried about housing issues; match-fixers to face seven years; Syria talks tomorrow; resorts under scrutiny after tragic zorbing accident.

Leonid Razvozzhayev has been sent from his central Russian holding cell to Siberia, where it is thought he could face pressure to name leading opposition figures as his accomplices in an alleged plot to overthrow Vladimir Putin.  His lawyer says he was not informed of the transfer, hearing of it only through media sources, and said he was concerned about the pre-trial detention centre’s ‘bad reputation’.  Moscow has granted permission for up to 20,000 activists to hold a protest this Sunday against the ban on U.S. adoptions.  A group of unknown activists hung an extremist banner opposite the Kremlin; the poster features several logos including that of the banned National Bolshevik Party and the United Russia party underneath the heading ‘Extremist Organizations of Russia’. No one has yet claimed responsibility.  A VTsIOM poll suggests that most Russians consider low living standards and corruption as the country’s most pressing problems, in particular housing and utilities issues.