Today: The world press gives its opinions on Dmitri Medvedev; excerpts from comments made by Medvedev at the World Economic Forum earlier this year; Russia will create an atomic power giant, Atomenergoprom, which is to be the nuclear equivalent of Gazprom; markets respond well to Putin’s endorsement of Medvedev; US refuses to comment; General Motors in talks to tie up with Gaz. Response to President Vladimir Putin’s naming of Dmitri Medvedev as his preferred presidential candidate has been mixed. The British press see him as “more liberal and less hawkish towards the west than Sergei Ivanov,” whilst observing that “you do not need an election to know the name of the next president.” Others hope that Medvedev’s liberalism would help Russia to move away from the “strident nationalism of the Putin era and exercise a more responsible role on the global stage.”