Today: Medvedev offers Putin a new job; Russia wants almost all operations of the British Council to be shut down; the OSCE urges Russia to reconsider its freezing of the CFE Treaty; Putin says “no state capitalism”. The biggest story in the UK today is that Russia has ordered the British Council, a non-governmental organization that acts as the cultural department of the British Embassy, to shut down all operations outside Moscow – “virtually its entire operation in the country” – by the start of next year. The order came after the Russian foreign ministry said the council, which promotes British culture, was operating illegally. The marketing director for the British Council’s main Moscow office was quoted as saying: “We have no plans to shut down [the regional offices].” The debate will “fuel tensions between the two countries sparked by last year’s murder in London of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko.”