TODAY: Gay rights groups gather to protest law; one opposition member hospitalised, another alleges his son was questioned by police; Magnitsky probe to continue; Putin’s campaign costs push on budget; opposition members say Kremlin are turning assassin plot into a spectacle; Wikipedia leaks documents about Prosecutor General; Astrakhan explosion kills six. 

Gay rights groups all over the world will protest today against St Petersburg’s pending law against homosexual ‘propaganda’.  A Solidarity member and opposition protester, who called for the destruction of the Lubyanka, which houses the FSB headquarters, has been put into psychiatric care for refusing to talk to police, and a Moscow court has ruled that the hospitalisation was legal.  Members of the all-female punk band Pussy Riot could face prison time.  An Other Russia activist has sued the Interior Ministry for allegedly detaining his six-year-old son for questioning.  Moscow’s City Court has ruled that the posthumous investigation of Sergei Magnitsky is legal, and can continue.  A video depicting election fraud at next week’s elections has supposedly been leaked as a means of discrediting the opposition.