TODAY: Opposition parties struggle to register for elections; allegations that Grzylov violated income declaration; police semantics cause confusion; protester-beating policeman deemed ‘impolite’; Medvedev suggests using Miranda rule equivalent.  Activists in Moscow courts; Iran calls Russian S-300 volte-face humiliating; Russia offers Poland Katyn files; Vice President of Abkhazia attacked

According to Central Elections Commission statistics, apparently more than half of the independent candidates who were planning to run in the October 10 elections for six regional legislatures have been denied registration.  The opposition party Yabloko is calling for an investigation into the earnings of State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov on suspicions that he failed to comply with income declaration requirements.  United Russia’s failure to come the defense of its co-founder, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (aside from its Moscow contingent) could be the ruin of the power structure the party seeks to protect, argues one analyst in Bloomberg.  As part of an initiative to quash police corruption, President Medvedev has suggested that Russia employ a law akin to the US’ Miranda rule, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights.  In an online discussion of the revised police bill citizens have reportedly complained that changing the name of law enforcement agency from ‘militsia’ to ‘politsiya’ is too confusing.  Some would call the actions of ‘Pearl Ensign’, the officer who assaulted Strategy 31 protesters, police brutality; apparently St Petersburg police call it ‘impolite’ and ‘not tactful’.