June 2, 2011 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 2, 2011

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TODAY: Navalny anticipates revolt; Serdyukov assures students on conscription; Lib Dem bill would put cameras in pretrial detention; gay rights protester attack investigated; All-Russia People’s Front gathers momentum; U.S. releases arsenal data; Troitsky benefit canceled; Medvedev backs media privatization.
Alexei Navalny says that the Russian political system is weak due to systemic corruption, and that Vladimir Putin could face a revolt within five years if he fails to implement reforms: ‘There is a shaky balance between the different interests.‘  Moscow police have launched an investigation into the attack of a Novaya Gazeta reporter at Saturday’s gay rights demonstration.  Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov is reassuring postgrad students that they will not be conscripted after a group complained to the President.  A Liberal Democratic Party bill would equip pretrial detention centers with surveillance cameras, as a measure to prevent human rights abuses.  Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that the All-Russia People’s Front is at an ‘advanced stage‘ of formation, with 450 social organizations and activist groups ready to join.  Hermitage Capital employees are protesting the involvement of Prosecutor General Yury Chaika in the Sergei Magnitsky case, implicating him as having had a hand in the lawyer’s death.  Anna Politkovskaya’s daughter says that the people who ordered her mother’s killing are still at large.