TODAY: 40,000 expected to march against the government tomorrow; Nemtsov and Chirikova make amends; U.S. and Russia clash over Libya; responses to Medvedev’s address; Surkov slates political system; Eurasian Union ‘a fairytale’.

Over 40,000 people are expected to turn out for tomorrow’s anti-government rally in Moscow, as pro-Kremlin youth groups such as Young Russia plan counter-demonstrations.  The Guardian has compiled a piece on ‘the faces of Russia’s protest movement’, with portraits and interviews with Yevgenia Chirikova, Alexei Navalny, Ilya Ponomaryov, and others.  Chirikova has appeared in public together with Boris Nemtsov in a bid to make amends following leaked excerpts from telephone calls in which Nemtsov insulted her; their meeting draws attention to the popular new online television channel that broadcast it, and its role as an alternative to Kremlin-run tv.  Alexey Kovalev explains why the Russian leadership remains wary of political satire. The U.S. has dismissed Russia’s call for the U.N. Security Council to investigate civilian deaths in Libya as ‘a cheap stunt’.