TODAY: Medvedev announces expansion of human rights committee at tribute to Yeltsin; a dozen victims of 1999 apartment bombing remain unidentified; Domodedovo death toll rises to 36; judge in Markelov case withdraws.  Ireland in diplomatic dispute with Russia; Anna ChapmanTM; Russia steps to Belarus’ defense on sanctions; Kremlin denies Sochi corruption link; another satellite lost; Luzhkov to move to Britain?; Putin/Campbell

President Medvedev, in an apparent tribute to the unpredictable style of post-Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin, made the ‘spontaneous’ announcement to increase the efficiency and numbers of the Kremlin’s human rights council, ordering it to examine the cases of Sergei Magnitsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  The news came at a ceremony unveiling a monument to the deceased former President, who, the Guardian suggests, is the subject of a rehabilitation campaign.  Boris Nemtsov is among those to praise the Yekaterinburg native as ‘the founder of democratic Russia’, whose worth has been increasingly recognized as Putin’s authoritarianism grows.  The Moscow Times is shocked to report that 12 years on from the Moscow apartment bombing, which precipitated the second Chechen conflict, 12 victims apparently remain unknown, as the authorities lack the financial resources to undertake the necessary DNA tests.  The death toll from last week’s Domodedovo airport atrocity has risen to 36; 114 injured remain hospitalized.  The judge involved in the Moscow murder trial of alleged ultranationalists Nikita Tikhonov and Evgeniya Khasis, accused of killing human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in January 2009, has apparently withdrawn from the case, possibly due to death threats.