TODAY: Press keep mum on whether rights activist attacker will face charges; Medvedev visits Dagestan, urges ‘dagger blow’ against terrorists; 2 killed in car bomb in the troubled region; Strasbourg fines Russia over Ingushetia disappearance.  Nurgaliyev misses deadline; military concerned about conscription-evaders; rapping.

Apparently the police have refused to say whether the man detained for attacking 82-year-old human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva will be prosecuted.  European Parliament Member Joseph Daul has voiced concern about the assault.  ‘We have twisted off the heads of the most odious bandits, but it looks like this is not enough’: Medvedev vows revenge in a surprise visit to Dagestan.  See the five components of the President’s plans to crush terrorism here.  The New York Times senses a Putinesque tone in Medvedev’s calls for tougher action.  The director of the Sova Center suggests in an article on RFE/RL that Putin-style ‘over-the-top rhetoric is destructive’ and is doing little to aid social cohesion.  A blast has killed two people in Dagestan and a bomb near a graveyard has been defused in the village of Oguzer near Kizlyar, where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.  ‘Deputies are already preparing a bill that would allow the death sentence for convicted terrorists’, says a Georgy Bovt op-ed in the Moscow Times.  The Independent has a useful Q+A.  A profile of Doku Umarov.  The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia almost $98,000 over the disappearance of a man in Ingushetia, who they claim was kidnapped unlawfully by the FSB.