TODAY: E.U. asks Putin to ‘tone down’ anti-protester rhetoric; police in Nazarov attack blame their superior, who has been fired; Krasnodar refuses to register gay rights group; environmentalists detained, further member of Pussy Riot detained, Udaltsov and Kozlov sentenced. Putin’s tiger stunt faked, reports say.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution criticising ‘shortcomings and irregularities’ in the presidential election earlier this month, and calling for Vladimir Putin to ‘tone down his rhetoric against […] protesters’.  The Other Russia has published the full statement.  The four former policemen implicated in the death of Sergei Nazarov are all blaming a senior lieutenant for the brutal attack on the detainee.  Sergei Yefremov, head of the Dalny police station where the incident occurred, has been fired, and the Interior Minister says the case is a ‘betrayal’ of police values.  The beating of Dagestani journalist Sapiyat Magomedova by police in 2010 has not prevented her from fighting for the rights of other detainees, The Guardian reports.  A court in Krasnodar has refused to register Pride House, the gay rights organization (started by activists from the GayRussia.eu website), on grounds that it aims were against ‘public morality’, citing its ‘ideological influence’.