President Dmitry Medvedev is praising Mikhail Prokhorov’s labour initiatives, put forward in his new role as leader of the Right Cause party, as ‘quite revolutionary‘; the President is also backing Prokhorov’s call to decentralize power in Russia.  The Guardian has a profile on the new party leader: Prokhorov is Russia’s third-richest man, is Kremlin-approved, and has major designs for reforming the workplace.  Many anticipate that his ideas for labour reform could ‘spell disaster for the Russian workforce‘.  The Interregional Committee Against Torture, a rights group with bases in Chechnya and Nizhny Novgorod, says its activists are coming under threat for their critique of law enforcement activities.  New legislation is being introduced by the Federation Council which, if passed, could avail Moscow of its obligation to the European Court of Human Rights and potentially lose Russia its Council of Europe membership.