TODAY: Kazan officers arrested, one charged, in connection with death of detainee; Osipova given extended arrest despite health; Navalny issued anti-extremism summons; Putin to reshuffle cabinet in May; United Russia deputy under fire over anti-Semitism; Jackson-Vanik disputes in U.S. senate; Russia vows to continue selling arms to Syria.

Five police officers have been named and detained in connection with the death and alleged torture of a 52-year-old detainee over the weekend, as a female Kazan resident alleges violent treatment in detention earlier this year.  One of them has already been charged with abuse of office and forging documents.  ‘Such incidents are far from unheard-of in Russian jails.’  Activist Taisia Osipova, the wife of an Other Russia activist, has had her arrest period extended, despite supporters calls for her to be released on the grounds that she has a young child and is a diabetic.  Alexei Navalny and the entire staff of his RosPil organisation have been issued a summons by the anti-extremism department of the police – Navalny says he will ignore it: ‘From the content of the strange letters, we see no legal reason to be distracted from the work that many thousands pay us to carry out.’  The real opportunity for the opposition to succeed now is in the sphere of local elections, says RFE/RL.