The head of the Moscow Electoral Commission has proposed rebuilding Russia’s electoral legislation ‘from scratch’.  Russian rights activists are petitioning for a memorial plaque for lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova who were gunned down in Moscow last year.  Residents of a Moscow suburb have sent a letter of complaint to the International Olympic Committee decrying the destruction of ‘private homes with people inside‘ to make way for a highway to serve the Olympic Games.  A Communist Party deputy has been stripped of his speaking rights after his request for a financial inquiry into Russian regions’ representations to the federal government was deemed ‘unethical’ by fellow deputies.  Is Russia about to change its stance on the European Court of Human Rights reform, Protocol 14?  An article by Paul Goble examines the claim of academician Nikolay Shmelyev that Russia has become ‘the most socially unjust’ country in the developed world.