TODAY: World responses to the Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev. Angela Merkel to be Medvedev’s first foreign meeting. Yabloko head on hunger strike in jail. Maxim Reznik, a Russian opposition activist and member of the Yabloko party, jailed for two months for taking part in anti-Kremlin protests, has gone on a hunger strike. An investigator in Moscow’s police’s tax crime department has been arrested on suspicion of trying to extort more than $3 million from a local businessman. An article in the Russian press focuses on freedom of the press under Vladimir Putin. More speculation on who will be invited to join Dmitry Medvedev’s “inner circle“. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to be the first foreign leader to meet with President-elect Dmitry Medvedev following his election victory.