TODAY: Medvedev’s new (old) foreign policy; China and Russia end territorial dispute; Muslim council protests literature ban; troubled Abkhazia rejects German peace plan. Dmitry Medvedev’s stance on foreign policy “suggests a resentment of unilateral actions by the United States and a determination to shape a multipolar world order regulated by the United Nations and international law.” The Moscow Times says “the text of Medvedev’s foreign policy speech […] was drafted while Putin was still president.” Russia may send military aircraft back to bases in Cuba in response to US plans to deploy elements of a missile defense system in Europe. China and Russia have resolved a 40-year-old dispute over their border, with Russia pledging to return 67 square miles of territory. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. A Moscow court has ordered former Yukos vice president Vasily Aleksanyan, who is being treated for AIDS-related lymphoma, to remain under armed guard until October 23, despite his lawyers protestations that any attempt to flee the hospital would be an “act of suicide,” due to his poor health.