Deputy Prime Minster Sergei Ivanov is in the U.S. to discuss economic relations, where he has acknowledged corruption and a lack of confidence in the Russian judicial system.  A new VTsIOM poll notes Russians’ increasing political apathy, with a third of respondents saying that they ‘totally ignore political life in the country‘, and the overall percentage of politically-interested citizens falling.  Blogging platform LiveJournal was hacked and frozen for seven hours earlier this week, with bloggers insisting that state resources must have been involved.  A Deputy Defense Minister is warning that the Western military campaign in Libya could backfire if extremists come to power in the region, backing earlier claims by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the rebels included a terrorist element.  Yulia Latynina likens Dmitry Medvedev to Vladimir Putin’s shoelaces.  VOA profiles Alexei Navalny, who warns that corruption ‘has the whole economy by the throat‘.