TODAY: Response to North Korea should be measured, says Lavrov; Swiss authorities investigate Viktor Vekselberg; Sibir Energy launches lawsuit; Khodorkovsky urges Kremlin to keep promise on judiciary; local activism just a PR stunt?

‘Hasty conclusions’ should be avoided in the response to the North Korea rocket launch, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says, according to ITAR-TASS.  Russian Deputy U.N. Ambassador, Konstantin Dolgov, hopes to achieve a unanimous Security Council proposal concerning the incident, but reiterates, ‘we are not yet there‘.  U.S. negotiator Rose Gottemoeller has hinted that the deadline for Russia and the US to reach a new nuclear arms agreement could be delayed.  Kremlin economic aide, Arkady Dvorkovich, has apparently downplayed the importance of the new reserve currency idea, formerly a Medvedev ‘priority‘, reports the Moscow Times.  According to Reuters, however, Dvorkovich says that Russia will request the IMF to investigate the possibility of a supranational currency.