TODAY: Activists sentenced over December race riots; nationalists and opposition members among those jailed; Interior Ministry toughens stance on Luzhkov; Putin offers hard line on graft; President Medvedev and daylight saving chaos.  Kyrgyzstan election seems likely to end in victory of ‘another Putin’; Syrian gratitude; liberal Serbs call for expulsion of Russian ambassador.  Kasparov on reset; Russia takes aim at Internet

One year on, the Washington Post reports on the grisly fall out of last year’s Halloween-themed Strategy 31 protest, which saw a number of organizers detained.  A Moscow court has sentenced a Muslim man from the North Caucasus to twenty years in a high-security prison for the murder of an ethnic Russian following a football match last year, the culmination of a trial which has highlighted ethnic tensions.  As a new wave of nationalists marches loom, two city courts have also jailed eleven other radical activists accused of participating in December’s race riots.  Three members of the Other Russia opposition group, which has no links to nationalism, were among those sentenced, prompting outrage from the organization.  The Interior Ministry has threatened it will take action against former Mayor Yury Luzhkov if he continues to ignore appointments for questioning as part of an investigation into an alleged $430 million bank fraud.  Prime Minister Putin has told an audience of financial police officers that anyone who is guilty of corruption should have their face ‘smashed.’  The Moscow Times looks back at President Medvedev’s hapless forays into promoting his own agenda.  Could the decision to not put the clocks back, which has apparently created waves of confusion across Russia, end up being the salient feature of his legacy?