TODAY: Lawmakers put out by Nobel Prize winner; hundreds arrested at anti-migrants riots in Moscow; 67 arrested at gay rights demo in St Petersburg; Tolokonnikova alleges ‘information blockade’; Greenpeace bail request denied; Uralkali CEO charges changed; editor attacked.

Russian lawmakers were left unimpressed after the Nobel Committee failed to grant this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to President Vladimir Putin. ‘Giving the award to the OPCW [instead] is a politically sophisticated choice, but it looks like a cunning move and a way to avoid giving the prize to those who prevented a war in Syria.’  Anti-migrant and nationalistic riots erupted in Moscow yesterday after a migrant worker was blamed for the murder of a local man.  Crowds of ‘several thousand’ rallied in protest, chanting slogans (such as ‘White Power’) and smashing storefronts (click for video); the protests led to hundreds of arrests.  Extra police have been deployed in the southern Biryulevo region to keep order.  In St Petersburg, 67 people were arrested following a fight at a gay rights demonstration where LGBT activists clashed with (and were outnumbered by) anti-gay demonstrators (including ‘several elderly women who chanted Russian Orthodox prayers’).  The Kremlin’s human rights committee will put forth a proposal for a ‘broad amnesty’ which will recommend that 25% of prisoners convicted of nonviolent crimes be released, as a way of marking the 20th anniversary of the Constitution.