TODAY: Presidential election results rigged? Russia’s Communist Party investigating validity of Putin’s United Russia plan. Putin in Sardinia with Berlusconi, writes off $4.5 billion Libya debt. Georgia responds angrily to Russia’s support of breakaway regions. Sochi head resigns. A computer programmer conducting a study on the Presidential election results says his findings show that up to a third of votes were likely to have been rigged, and that turnout was 56%, not the 69.7% declared by the Central Election Commission. Russia’s Communist Party has requested a copy of the amendments to the United Russia’s Charter that the Congress endorsed on April 14, suspecting that Vladimir Putin’s leadership of the party was only made possible by bypassing the law. The Economist wonders whether or not a Putin-Medvedev joint rule will work. Putin is in Sardinia with his “old friend and political ally” Silvio Berlusconi, having just written off Libya’s $4.5 billion Soviet-era debt, receiving in exchange a number of contracts with Libya which could secure billions of dollars for Russia’s state corporations. The French Foreign Minister has joined Germany in urging Russia to back reforms for the European Court of Human Rights. Georgia has demanded that Russia drop plans to forge closer ties with two rebel regions of Georgia.