TODAY: NGOs targeted; Razvozzhayev charged with 15-year-old robbery; Putin’s WTO pessimism; wind farm plans; Shoigu in China; Rushydro to be recapitalised; OMV reconsiders relationship with Gazprom; Khodorkovsky criticises Dudley; YouTube removed from web blacklist.

At least four non-governmental organisations were harassed with graffiti and pickets after the new law, under which foreign-funded NGOs must register as ‘foreign agents’, came into force yesterday.  Rights group Memorial found its building spraypainted with ‘Foreign Agent’ graffiti.  Lev Ponomaryov, the head of For Human Rights, continues to insist that his organisation will ignore the law, which could provoke a fine.  Opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev has been charged with stealing 500 fur hats – 15 years ago; the charge (which Razvozzhayev denies) was made two weeks before the 15 year deadline after which such cases expire.  ‘The authorities are determined to lock up their political opponents and are trying to do so in anyway they can.’  President Vladimir Putin is pessimistic about the outcomes of the initial period of Russia’s new World Trade Organisation membership, warning economists to expect higher unemployment and budget revenue shortfalls.  RUSTEC, a large new wind farm plan being developed by the International Finance Organization, ‘could kick-start the country’s renewable energy industry’.