Protesters gathered to rally against Mayor Yury Luzhkov in an unsanctioned meeting sparked by Moscow’s ‘unpreparedness for the heat wave and the wildfires‘.  A reported 35 of them, carrying black scraps of paper to symbolize mistrust, (including activist Lev Ponomaryov), were detained by police.  The BBC reports that doctors in Moscow are being told not to diagnose heatstroke, as one doctor admits, ‘we were told that the figures for heatstroke in Moscow had gone off the scale‘.  Tornadoes and hurricanes on the cards for next week?  A new poll from the Levada center gave respondents ‘a list of Putin’s possible failures‘ and asked them to choose his biggest, revealing strong feelings about corruption and bribery.  Ceremonies across Russia are being held to mark yesterday’s 10th anniversary of the Kursk submarine disaster in which 118 people died, but the official response was lacking, according to relatives of the dead, with silence from the Defense Ministry, the President, and Prime Minister.  The disaster taught Vladimir Putin a valuable lesson, says this article: ‘When disaster strikes, take control — most importantly of television.‘