TODAY: Medvedev calls for ban on use of force; opponents criticize anti-corruption measures; Lavrov calls for Georgia embargo; Soviet brand names, ‘Evil Empire’. President Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the World Policy Conference in Evian, calling for a ban on the use of force in Europe, asking the world to ‘study the new Russia’, and insisting that his country is ‘absolutely not interested in confrontation.’ Read a translation of some of his speech here. He also took the opportunity to accuse the US of undermining international security. The financial crisis? One journalist suggests that the Kremlin is employing the tactic: ‘If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen.’ Opponents of the new proposed anti-corruption measures argue that they ‘would increase the FSB’s ability to conduct criminal investigations with less oversight.’ How will the Kremlin cope without its pharmacy?