TODAY: Siemens to pay up over bribes to ‘Gazprom’ heads; Navalny’s assets frozen; nationalist shooting; rights groups condemn UN Rights Council decision; Council of Europe wants overhaul of Russian justice system; Putin speaks to South Korea station about power; Rosneft signs deals with BP, Vietnam; Borodin laundering case; Tolokonnikova whereabouts revealed.

A subsidiary of Germany’s Siemens will pay almost $11 million in fines after admitting that it failed to prevent the paying of bribes into the Swiss bank accounts of senior executives of the unnamed company that reports say is almost certainly Gazprom.  In connection with the money laundering cases against them, the assets of both Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg have been frozen.  In the latest example of Russia’s growing nationalist sentiment, a leader of the Migrants Federation was shock in the back yesterday.  Various rights groups have condemned the news that, together with China and Saudia Arabia, Russia has been elected to the UN’s Human Rights Council in spite of its human rights record.  The Council of Europe urged President Putin to overhaul Russia’s judicial system.  In a new interview largely discussing issues of trade and energy, Putin revealed to a South Korean network that a recent accolade from Forbes magazine (who called him the world’s most powerful person) made him ‘cautious’, and that it could limit him ‘let’s say, in making decisions,’ if he did not take care to ignore it.  Russia wants Poland to apologise after a far-right attack on the Russian embassy in Warsaw.