The Foreign Ministry has responded to the U.S. State Department’s report on its human rights record, accusing it of ‘double standards‘ and noting that ‘Americans prefer not to recall their own record‘, citing Guantanamo and Bagram prisons, human trafficking and child pornography.  President Dmitry Medvedev offered support to Belarus in investigating the Minsk subway bomb blast which killed seven people yesterday.  It has been established that Russia has no plans to cut off Skype, Gmail or Hotmail, but it is thought that the state will begin to impose more restrictions on encryption technology (bringing Russia in line with many other countries including India and UAE).  ‘Neither Putin nor Medvedev is likely to support any ban on encrypted websites,‘ says this FT blog.  If visa-free travel between Russia and Europe is taking its time to be approved, it’s because of technical, not political issues, says an E.U. lawmaker, as two E.U. Parliament members in Moscow call for free and fair elections this year.