RFE/RL reports that the perpetrators of the Baksan hydropower plant (video footage here) have been identified.  Having recommenced negotiations on child adoptions with the US, Russia insists that it will not allow same-sex US couples to adopt Russian children, because it does not recognize same-sex marriages.  RIA Novosti reports on a case in point, in which a Russian lesbian couple are appealing to the European Court of Human Rights to get their marriage registered.  A small group of ‘blue bucket‘ protesters who staged an ‘absurd walk‘ against the sirens used by government officials to get through traffic have been detained in Moscow.  Moldova has renewed its call for Russia’s 1,200 troops to get out of Transdnestr, with a parliamentary speaker blaming the ‘occupation army‘ for Moldova’s economic problems.