Moscow’s St Patrick’s Day parade has been canceled this year, ostensibly to avoid traffic congestion, with speculation that the cancellation relates to security concerns in light of recent bombings.  A Russian-built passenger plane has crashed during a training flight over Belgorod, killing all six people on board.  Seven prison staff in St Petersburg have been jailed for torturing prisoners.  Activists and rights defenders are mourning the death of antiracism campaigner Galina Kozhevnikova.  A member of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s defense team says that an open letter signed by fifty-five Russian public figures complaining that Khodorkovsky supporters are dragging Russian society ‘into a campaign to discredit the judicial system‘ was ‘commissioned by the authorities‘.  Eduard Limonov is not optimistic about any future reconciliation between the two factions of the Strategy 31 campaign.