TODAY: Estemirova murder remains unsolved two years on; magazine critical of St Petersburg governor pulled; Putin blames Bulgaria disaster on greed; orders ministers pay for statue to Tsarist era PM.  Medvedev suggests civil service hub of corruption; Hollywood stars attend fundraiser, but where are the funds? Moscow to double in size

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the slaying of rights activist Natalya Estemirova: the findings of an independent investigation into her murder led by Memorial, Novaya Gazeta and the International Federation for Human Rights have concluded that that the secret services have obfuscated the truth and protected the rights worker’s killers.  Ria-Novosti reports that police have ‘repeatedly refused’ to allow the murdered activist’s sister access to key case materials.  In addition to this, the report finds that DNA evidence demonstrates that the two men charged with the assassination did not commit the crime.   From breast-baring to clapping, Ellen Barry in the New York Times considers some of the innovative new protest methods employed by activists in post-Soviet states.   A major Russian publisher has accused the authorities of confiscating copies of business weekly Kommersant Vlast after its July 4 edition mocked St. Petersburg’s outgoing governor, Valentina Matviyenko, over her failure to deal with the city’s deadly iceberg problem.