President Medvedev has ordered the creation of an anti-terrorism task force, and set a team of officials to prepare a proposal on new measures to combat terrorist acts, and The Times says that recent suicide bombings have ‘cast Medvedev in a new light‘, contrasting his response thus far with former President Vladimir Putin’s behaviour during his conflicts with Chechnya.  ‘Putin’s once seemingly impregnable regime may be fading in the same way as its predecessors’ regimes,‘ but a likely outcome is that his immediate circle will ‘hijack whatever new system emerges and put it to work in the service of their own interests,‘ writes Andrei Piontkovsky.  Brian Whitmore at RFE/RL argues that the Kremlin will search for a way of keeping Putin in the political game for as long as possible.  The New York Times writes on the grassroots incidents that fuel unrest in the Caucasus.  A court in Grozny has ruled that an encyclopedia entry on Chechnya published at least four years ago is ‘extremist‘, and ordered that the volume be confiscated.