Soundbites from Dmitry Medvedev’s Singapore appointments: climate change poses a ‘catastrophic‘ threat; Russia’s rejuvenated navy wants to up its presence in the world’s oceans; stop rewriting history on WW2; state financial problems will have no impact on arms procurement.  Journalists continue to bemoan the lack of ‘a bridge between his wonderful strategic plans and his concrete proposals‘.  Discrepancies between Medvedev’s words and actions happen because ‘true modernization never succeeds without a corresponding major change in political leadership,‘ says one Moscow Times columnist.  Boris Gryzlov’s idea to create an electoral monitoring committee in the State Duma to deal with complaints about fraudulent results has been scrapped, according to The Other Russia, in favor of plans to create the committee under the president, in line with Dmitry Medvedev’s proposed reforms.  Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia has adopted Russia’s international dialing code.