Vasily Yakemenko, the head of a pro-Kremlin youth group, will file a defamation suit against Oleg Kashin over claims that he was involved in an attack on the journalist last year.  According to the chief military prosecutor, thousands of soldiers suffer ‘hazing‘ abuses (including ‘some‘ deaths), with 16% more cases reported this year than last, numbers which cannot be blamed entirely on an overall higher number of conscripts.  NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin criticized the U.N. intervention in Libya, warning that the operation could go full-scale: ‘Just as we forecast, NATO is being drawn deeper and deeper into war in North Africa.‘  In an Ekho Moskvy radio poll last week, 80% of respondents apparently said they would consent to military intervention if Russia got the same treatment as Libya: this writer comments.  A Washington Post blog reports on the authorities; intimidation of the family of Khimki Forest activist Yevgenia Chirikova.