‘Several dozen‘ protesters were arrested at yesterday’s Strategy 31 rallies in Moscow and St Petersburg, and the latter rally was apparently picketed by anti-opposition activists.  The Other Russia says the Moscow protest saw 26 arrests, (‘including, as has become customary, Other Russia party leader Eduard Limonov‘).  Rustam Makhmudov, the Chechen man accused of killing Anna Politkovskaya, has been arrested by F.S.B. and military forces.  Russia’s placing on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ ‘impunity index‘ has improved, as no journalists were murdered there in 2010.  United Russia is proposing that its own candidates chair the boards of state-controlled companies, and Vladimir Putin has apparently already given his preliminary approval to the plan.