TODAY: Rights activists look to US senate for blacklist on officials involved in Yukos case; European Court of Human Rights to face huge claim by defunct oil giant.  Pilot in June air crash found to have been drunk.  Could Prokhorov return to Right Cause?  Yabloko has bold plans for December elections; Putin’s return unlikely says insider.  Discord remains over US-Russia Syrian stance; Moscow demolishes Mother Teresa site, forests face uncertain future.

RFE/RL reports on how human-rights activists and opposition politicians have called on the US Senate to blacklist 305 officials involved in the prosecution of the Yukos oil firm and its founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  Today the European Court of Human Rights deals with the costliest demand in its history as it rules on a claim by Yukos for $98 billion in damages from the Russian government, after it was dismantled and absorbed by the state.  The navigator on the TU 134 passenger airliner which crashed in northern Russia in June, killing 47 people, was found to be in a state of ‘light alcoholic intoxication’, the New York Times reports.  Despite the findings, and the series of disasters which have befallen Russian airspace in recent months, Ria-Novosti reports that United Russia will not raise the issue of Transport Minister Igor Levitin’s resignation in parliament.