January 30, 2008 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 30, 2008

300108.jpgTODAY: Medvedev calls on Russian lawyers. Communist Zyuganov accuses Medvedev of undermining the election. Nashi is targeted by Estonian immigration as it is reported that its activities could be wound up. Journalist who blackmailed Deripaska is arrested. An Etonian Kremlin leader? Dmitry Medvedev, a lawyer by training, has called on the Association of Russian Lawyers to take a more prominent role in society and to battle the “legal nihilism” he says grips the country. The campaign leader of Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov has accused Medvedev of undermining the election with his refusal to join televised debates and threatened that Zyuganov could follow suit. “In a democratic state, a candidate’s withdrawal from debates would have meant his withdrawal from the race,” he said.