TODAY: New reports on media freedom and population; Abramovich was an “undeclared member of President Putin’s regime”?; WTO talks progress despite Georgian and Lithuanian reservations; Sochi land evaluation commission will be lighter than promised. A new report by US-based democracy watchdog Freedom House says media freedom in Russia “saw continued and substantial declines” in 2007, and that the country has the same level of press freedom as Sudan and Yemen. Russia is doing too little to reverse a critical decline in its population driven by increasing alcohol abuse, poor diet and social change, according to a new report from the UN. The case brought by Boris Berezovsky against Roman Abramovich has reportedly brought documents to light which show that Abramovich “was an undeclared member of President Putin’s regime in Russia when he bought Chelsea Football Club in 2003”.