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Confusion surrounds the trial of three men for the trial of Anna Politkovskya; it has been closed to the public and delayed (Al-Jazeera). Russian bloggers are exercised by the participation of one of the jurors in a radio programme last week, in defiance of the law. The juror, Evgeni Kolesov, complained that the judge's decision to close the trial to the press was not taken at the jurors' request, which contradicted the explanation given by the judge himself (Polit.ru, in Russian).

Is the curtailing of BBC Russian broadcasts (IZO, earlier) a "perverse concession" to the Kremlin (Russia Profile)?

Big cuts have been made to the BBC Russian Service radio broadcasts. All "analytical and cultural features" have gone (Moscow Times). That would include Zinovy Zinik's excellent West End, in which I sometimes took part.

Katya Gordon (IZO, earlier) has replaced Sergei Minaev (IZO, earlier) on the RSN evening show (Glossip, in Russian).

Fashionable author Sergei Minaev has been sacked from his job presenting a radio programme on RSN radio (rasstriga, in Russian). Minaev's own position is set out on his blog (amigo095, in Russian).

herr_und_knecht offers a lacanian analysis of the Gordon-Sobchak conflict (herr_und_knecht, in Russian):

The symbolic order represented by Katya Gordon, the moral values, the education, the very capacity to classify and differentiate, clashes traumatically with the Real - Ksyusha Sobchak, a force which it is impossible to "put in its place"...

Full transcript of the discussion plus audio file (Radio Mayak).

A round-up of Russian radio stations (Russia InfoCentre).