June 28, 2010 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 28, 2010

FRONT-3-G20.jpgTODAY: Clinton voices concern over Magnitsky case; pro-Kremlin journalist found murdered; official throws cash away; ‘Etiquette for Foreigners’ guide under fire; 5 detained at St Petersburg pride rally; servicemen protest. Medvedev makes gloomy assessment of Kyrgyzstan referendum; Moldova irks with Soviet occupation day; Stalin firmly off his pedestal in Georgia; cigarettes and alcohol 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a U.S.-Russia civil society summit that justice must be served regarding the death in detention of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.  A 26-year-old journalist for the pro-Kremlin Expert cable television channel has been found stabbed to death in his Moscow apartment; apparently investigators currently believe that the crime has no link to his professional status.  Huguette Labelle, chair of the Transparency International watchdog group, is interviewed here about extirpating corruption in Russia.  An official from the Fisheries Agency threw $322,700 of out his car window during a police chase in an attempt to avoid bribery charges.  Students in Moscow have protested for greater autonomy in their education.  Meanwhile a small number of teachers in the Volga region are on hunger strike.  300 demonstrators, many of them servicemen, have demonstrated in Pskov against the reforms currently under way in the military.  The new Muscovite code for foreigners is less for foreigners as a whole, than for Central Asian migrant workers, this commentator on RFE/RL suggests.  Gay activists have managed to stage a brief rally in St Petersburg, despite a ban: at least 5 demonstrators were detained.  Prominent human rights activists and the liberal Yabloko party have voiced their support for ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who has received harsh criticism from United Russia over the latest Strategy 31 rally.
 

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