TODAY: Police on hunt for rights worker attacker; Khodorkovsky seeks parole again; freedom for fines for economic criminals; NTV broadcasts program made by Magnitsky supporters.  Bomb in Siberia; Georgia-Russia tensions mount; Russia-NATO in counter-terrorism exercise; Russia’s envoy talks to Libyan rebels; Putin woos construction workers with song

Police in Moscow say they are searching for a group of unknown assailants who attacked Memorial human rights worker Bakhrom Khamroyev on Monday.  ‘Russia has an obligation to carry out a prompt, effective, and impartial investigation’ says Human Rights Watch.  Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has appealed for a second time to a Moscow court for release on parole.  According to the Moscow Times, a senior investigator who led the probe into the second Yukos case has been assigned to check reports that the verdict of the case was illegally imposed on the judge.  A court in central Russia has taken two months off the prison sentence of former Yukos executive Vladimir Pereverzin; his lawyers were aiming for a two year reduction.  A new bill liberalizing the Criminal Code would grant freedom to economic criminals if they pay a fine five times more than the value of the damage they have caused. In an unexpected move, state-controlled NTV television has broadcast a report condemning the luxury lifestyles of officials implicated in the case of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.  The victories gained by Medvedev in his battle against graft.  Yulia Latynina suggests that if corruption continues, a devaluation of the ruble may well be around the corner.