Following a Twitter campaign, President Dmitry Medvedev has called for an inquiry (confirmed on his own Twitter account) into the status of the Pavlovsk seed bank – the world’s oldest, currently due to be destroyed to make way for private housing.  Georgy Boos, the unpopular governor of Kaliningrad, has been ousted from the Kremlin’s new list of gubernatorial nominees.  One Duma deputy praised his dismissal as ‘democratic […] because it was a response to opposition demands to replace the unpopular governor‘.  The Kaliningrad opposition says it will nonetheless go ahead with its planned Saturday protest.  Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square, favored by the Strategy 31 opposition group as a protest site, will be closed for one month for construction, which ‘appears to offer the authorities a month-long solution to their problem of dealing with the opposition’s regular attempts to stage rallies on the square on the 31st day of every month,‘ although Eduard Limonov says it will not deter the protesters. The FT’s Neil Buckley writes on Russia’s recent ‘“sensational” shift in foreign policy‘.