TODAY: Pussy Riot video to be banned; posthumous charged filed against Magnitsky; Perepilichnyy had been warned he was on hit list; Kopeysk prison strike highlights abuse of prisoners; planes beating trains. 

A Moscow City Court has declared that Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ music and political protest video is ‘extremist’, which means that media outlets can be closed for broadcasting it – YouTube in Russia, for example, will have to remove it from their servers. ‘The judge did not watch any of the videos.’  Charges of tax evasion have been posthumously filed against anticorruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in pretrial detention in 2009, and his Britain-based former client, William Browder.  Alexander Perepilichnyy, the Russian businessman and former informant to Magnitsky, the cause of whose death has still not been determined, tried to ‘make peace’ with the officials he had accused of money laundering, according to The Independent.  Perepilichnyy had apparently been warned last year that his name was on a criminal gang’s hit list, and was thought to have had links to criminal gangs before moving to London.  Mary Dejevsky applauds the Magnitsky List, saying it is ‘just what [Britain] need[s].’