TODAY: Putin to attend NATO summit this week, wants to build “bridge” between US and Russia, plans to become leader of United Russia. Anglo-Russian investment strong. Anna Politkovskaya’s killer identified, say Russian prosecutors. Between Britain and Russia, poor political relations are not disrupting healthy economic relations, and British tourist numbers are “booming”. Russia believes that the British Foreign Office’s announcement of the retirement of Sir Anthony Brenton, the Moscow ambassador most disliked by the Kremlin, is a “humiliating climb-down”. It is being reported that President Vladimir Putin plans to become the official leader of United Russia and will announce his decision to join the party at its congress next month. According to this report, Putin wants to build a 64-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait between Chukotka, in the Russian far east, and Alaska, to act as “a real bridge” between Russia and the US. The cost is of such a venture is estimated at $66 billion.