26 Khimki Forest activists, including campaign head Yengenia Chirikova, have been arrested at a rally in the nearby town.  Wages in Moscow are considerably higher than elsewhere in the country, drawing an inflow of around 1 million migrants in the last eight years.  A BBC report on the treatment of asylum seekers reveals some unpleasant case studies and accusations of official racism.  The WSJ interviews Sergei Fetisov, a volunteer soldier who left the Russian Army amid ‘poor morale‘ and ‘menial, humiliating‘ work, and reports on an overall drop in the numbers of young men volunteering.  ‘Ethnic tensions‘ in the military are often behind the abuse of conscripts (known as ‘hazing‘), says this report.  The Moscow Times says that the Pulitzer Prize win for two Moscow correspondents who wrote a series of articles about corruption indicates ‘that the influence of foreign media is growing in Russia‘.  The second reading of a bill that would fine officials up to 100 times the size of a bribe has survived in the State Duma, but will need a final reading in order to be signed into law.