TODAY: START moving forward; Anna Chapman for UR youth role; Britain and Russia in spy expulsions; Putin holds meeting with football fans, indicates possible strengthening of immigration rules; Magnitsky-inspired ruling approved; Belarus crackdown continues; Stalin’s birthday; resurgence of Islam; divorce.

START has won a decisive vote in the Senate, of 67 to 28, to end debate on the treaty, which ‘now heads to a seemingly certain final vote of approval on Wednesday’.   President Medvedev has voiced support for New Delhi’s bid to secure a permanent seat on an expanded U.N. Security Council as Russia attempts to maintain a special relationship with India.  Glamorous ex-spy Anna Chapman is to become a leader in the youth wing of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, according to reports this week in Moscow.  In the first tit-for-tat expulsions since 2007, Britain has expelled a diplomat from Russia’s embassy in London for espionage and reported that Russia had responded in kind.  See here for a Reuters factbox on bones of contention between the two countries.