Lev Ponomarev says that the activists ceasing to protest under the Strategy 31 banner will turn their attention to banning United Russia.  In a move widely thought to be connected with planned action on Triumfalnaya Square today, the group’s Moscow offices have been raided by police ‘armed with automatic weapons‘, who detained four activists.  The People’s Freedom Party, headed by opposition figures (and former ministers) including Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Ryzhkov, have released a new report on corruption, to be distributed at today’s rallies: ‘We have bad roads. This is because of corruption.  The fact that prices are going up on utilities in our country, this is because the tariffs are going up on gas, and the tariffs on gas are going up because Putin’s friends have taken $60 billion worth of property.‘  Is the Prime Minister intending to use the revived, and now state-run, Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper to ‘widen his appeal‘? Some sources are reserving their judgement for now: ‘Reporters Without Borders said the revival of the newspaper may show that Putin’s ruling elite is more open to criticism.‘