TODAY: Medvedev calls for BRIC summit; presidential term amendment approved; Politkovskaya judge to stay; the Kremlin’s sway over history; Rogozin slams US over NATO fast-track suggestion.

Dmitry Medvedev’s high profile trip to Latin America yesterday saw the Russian president in Brazil, calling for a summit of the major emerging market BRIC economies.  The constitutional amendment to extend the presidential term from four years to six, first proposed by Medvedev in his state-of-the-nation address just three weeks ago, has been approved by the Federal Council.  The fact that the Kremlin ‘almost always gets what it wants […] might be acceptable during stable times, but not during a global financial crisis that is snowballing out of control‘, says the Moscow Times.