President Medvedev has submitted a bill to the State Duma that would allow for the deployment of Russian troops almost anywhere overseas.  A Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman has said that the new law is an attempt ‘to place the aggression perpetrated against Georgia last year within a legal framework’.  The Ministry also says that Russia has not honored the terms of the cease-fire agreement and called Medvedev’s thanking of Sarkozy, who helped to broker the peace deal, ‘a cynical move’.  The Washington Post reports in-depth on the displaced civilian populations in Georgia.  An op-ed piece in the Moscow Times examines the gap between the superannuated nature of Russia’s armed forces and the grandeur of its ambitions.  Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin has said that the new NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has a style which is ‘very interesting and new’ for the alliance.