TODAY: Putin chooses new Cabinet, keeping former presidential officials in charge; tentative reports suggest Politkovskaya’s killer has been charged; EU, US and Canada weigh in on Georgia tensions; Zenit football club. In a busy first week as Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin has moved several of his most powerful former presidential officials to the Russian government, “bolstering the view that he will remain the centre of national power as prime minister,” and leaving Dmitry Medvedev “cast adrift within his own administration,” as one UK journalist put it. Several members of the siloviki were reportedly demoted. Major changes include the promotion of Igor Shuvalov and Igor Sechin as deputy prime ministers and the appointment of nuclear energy businessman Sergei Shmatko as energy minister. Medvedev has replaced the Federal Security Service’s longtime director with a veteran security agent who “could strengthen Medvedev’s hand over the law enforcement agencies.”