Heidi Hautala, the head of the European Parliament parliament’s subcommittee on human rights who attended last week’s Strategy 31 protests in Moscow, told journalists that ‘Russia would be better off without Putin‘ and criticized the country’s prison conditions as its ‘main catastrophe of human rights‘.  A weekend Washington Post editorial draws attention to the treatment of protesters at last week’s rally.  Nashi’s lawsuit against opposition leader Ilya Yashin has been thrown out by a Moscow Court, which means that Yashin will not have to retract his accusations about Nashi’s ‘doctored‘ anti-opposition videos.  The 22-year prison sentence for mother-of-four Yulia Kruglova has been suspended until 2022, following a campaign that included members of the public as well as the prosecution.