TODAY: Tusk speaks out on crash report; Lavrov conveys solidarity with Poland; says no further nuclear reductions in immediate future; Russian anger at treatment of Bout’s wife; OSCE steps up pressure on Belarus; Gibbs vs ITAR-TASS; Murder charge possible for Khodorkovsky?  Shooting Medvedev

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has reportedly called the Russian IAC report into last year’s presidential plane crash ‘incomplete’ that stated that his government would not accept a ‘unilateral account of the crash’.  Tusk did however emphasize that favorable relations with Russia were ‘too good to throw away’.  Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed to have ‘full solidarity’ with the Polish Prime Minister and Polish feelings.  Regarding relations with the US, Lavrov has suggested that it will be difficult to consider further nuclear arms reductions before the terms of the START treaty itself are fulfilled.  According to RFE/RL, Lavrov has however praised reset ties between Russia and the US as responsible for the ‘increasing healthiness of the international situation’.  The Foreign Minister also emphasized that the construction of a common European missile shield with NATO would be a principal ingredient to ameliorating relations with the West.