RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 7, 2011
TODAY: Medvedev’s corruption legislation hasn’t affected his own bills; Kremlin releases terror names; rights council releases Magnitsky officials’ names; Nagorno-Karabakh. New restrictions for FSB officials; abortion statistics; second Tupolev makes emergency landing this week; Blueberry Hill, the remix.
President Dmitry Medvedev ‘didn’t know‘ that dozens of his own bills had gone unchecked by his 2009 anti-corruption legislation. ‘A check by Transparency International indicated that at least 17 provisions of the new police law were open for abuse.‘ The Kremlin has declassified its terror list of 2,000 names in a bid for ‘more transparency‘. The Kremlin’s human rights council has gone public with the names of officials implicated in the case of Sergei Magnitsky. ‘The Kremlin council’s report stresses that the investigators who carried out the inquiry against Magnitsky should not have been involved in the case because they were the same people Magnitsky had accused of fraud.‘ The Washington Post looks at the history of Nagorno-Karabakh.