TODAY: Russia denounces lack of progress in NATO missile talks; Britain rejects Litvinenko offer; Yak-42 crash leaves one survivor; Sochi residents protest eviction and demolition; Anna Politkovskaya; Khodorkovsky pretrial detention was illegal; Liberal Democrats, Sobyanin.

Russia is dissatisfied with the ‘absence of progress’ made in talks with NATO regarding the US-led missile shield, which is progressing on the ground, with Romania this week agreeing to host interceptors which will be deployed within four years.  A Russian proposal to open a joint investigation into the 2006 death of Alexander Litvinenko has been rejected by the British government.  Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Moscow should be seen not as an attempt to resume relations, but as ‘two middle-ranking, post-imperial powers groping for some sort of modern relationship, with each other and with Europe,’ says the FT.  Alexander Sizov, the sole remaining survivor of the Yak-42 plane crash that killed the Yaroslavl hockey team, has regained consciousness in hospital, amid reports that the crash was caused by the pilots’ failure to remove the parking brake during takeoff.  Kontinental Hockey League President Alexander Medvedev says that the crash could improve strained relations with the NHL.