TODAY: Pro-Kremlin youth group approach Boris Nemtsov; negative outlook for demonstrations; eyes turn to Belarus as government threatens to separate opposition family; EU considers sanctions. Viktor Bout’s wife claims to have been pressured by US; will appeal for his release on bail

Ria-Novosti reports on how pro-Kremlin nationalist youth movement ‘Stal”s overtures towards jailed opposition leader Boris Nemtsov have stoked rumors that he may have been sexually abused in jail.  Left Front co-leader Sergei Udaltsov has told the Moscow Times that he foresees difficulties of the same ilk as those experienced last week for the opposition ahead of the State Duma elections in December and presidential vote in March 2012.  The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall, alarmed by the ‘latest disturbing manifestation of Putin’s ever more menacing police state’ suggests that David Cameron should cancel his planned visit in protest.