TODAY: Media watchdog may backtrack on blocked websites; Russian Railways fined for manipulating market; Medvedev denies Putin’s ill health, says he backs current development; Daghestani lawyer wins rights prize; BP and AAR end litigations; Gazprom loses out on supply deal; physicist spy sentence cut.

The Mass Media Inspection Service acknowledged that its mechanism for blocking websites ‘needs fine-tuning’, and promised to reinstate the more popular sites that had been added to its new blacklist, including Rutracker,org, the filesharing site, and Librusek, an online library.  Russian Railways will be fined $69 million by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service over complaints that it created an artificial shortage of freight cars.  The Audit Chamber is alleging that billions of rubles allocated for infrastructure projects ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vladivostok were misused.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is the latest person to deny that Vladimir Putin is suffering from a serious back injury; he also stated that he backs the current political development of his country, praising its ‘active civil society’.  Putin apparently repeated his invitation to U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Russia during his congratulatory telephone call to the re-elected leader.  Sapiyat Magomedova, a female Daghestani lawyer, has been awarded the Per Anger prize in Gothenborg.