TODAY: Putin calls for defense against extremism, announces creation of payments system to replace Visa; U.N. rejects Crimea secession vote, region to get new constitution; U.S. bans military exports to Russia; Sberbank says it’s ready for zero growth; Rosatom says no change to Ukraine deliveries; Dozhd fighting for survival; Berezovsky death receives open verdict.

President Vladimir Putin called for an analysis of all of the colour revolutions and the recent Ukraine crisis as a means of defending Russia from the ‘tyranny’ of terrorism and extremism.  Putin also announced that Russia will create its own national payments system to limit reliance on U.S.-based payment networks Visa and MasterCard which have withdrawn their services as part of punitive sanctions over Crimea.  As the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Crimea’s secession vote invalid,  lawmakers in the region have begun drafting a new constitution that will incorporate it into the Russian system, and will turn its attention to the Crimean banking system next month.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for the preparation of an initiative to make Crimea a special economic zone.  The U.S. has imposed a ban on licenses for military exports to Russia.  Sberbank says it has plans in place and will be able to cope if economic growth falls to zero due to sanctions. ‘[W]e don’t see anything coming at us from the horizon that can unseat us.’  The Kremlin may not be taking the sanctions seriously, but Russia’s oligarchs are; the Guardian reports that Russia’s richest are moving money out of Europe and into Singapore.