TODAY: Independence for Kosovo ruffles Russia. Nashi forms a children’s movement. Medvedev defends power of presidential role, even with Putin as prime minister. Protesters rally in support of Yukos prisoners. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk urges EU to work out a common policy for Russia. Dominating the news today is Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Vladimir Putin pre-emptively warned that the declaration would be “illegal, ill-conceived and immoral”, and Russia’s Foreign Ministry are currently saying they expect NATO and the United Nations “to annul the decision”. The Nashi youth organization last year set up a children’s movement called Mishki, which supposedly has “no political associations” but wants “to teach children to be in charge of their own lives”.