TODAY: May Day rallies; government may waive visas for UK football fans; Russia-Georgia tensions continue, Nato alarmed; remains of Czar’s children identified. Kasparov a “nuisance”? Russia is marking May Day with a number of rallies. United Russia is marching in Moscow together with trade union activists, and the Communists and the Other Russia movement will hold demonstrations against the government. High-level discussions are reportedly taking place within the Russian Government over scrapping visas for UK football fans who want to visit Russia for the Champions League, as “a gesture of goodwill at a time when political relations with Britain are at their worst since the end of the Cold War.” A letter published in the Wall Street Journal criticizes Garry Kasparov for his failure to “promote a social and economic model that combines freedom and governability,” and says that, if the Russian government would imprison Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “an entrepreneur who attempted to work out a feasible economic alternative to the country’s archaic traditions”, but not Kasparov, it must see the latter as nothing more than “a nuisance”.