TODAY: Commission suggests eradication of preliminary voting; corruption in army proves costly; Rechnik residents aren’t giving up the fight.  NATO-Russia meeting signifies first breakthrough since 2008; Libya looking to buy jets; Novaya Gazeta victim of hack attack?  Russia apparently doing cybercrime proud; Soviet chocolate

Russia’s Central Elections Commission has proposed that preliminary voting be abolished at all levels, following on from a suggestion of President Medvedev, who has argued that preliminary voting creates the conditions for voting violations.  RFE/RL continues to examine the events of the State Council Meeting.  The BBC reports on how corruption among the armed forces in Russia cost the government $100 million in 2009, twice as much as the year before.  A spokeswoman for the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers has said that the military draft in 2009 was characterized by more rights violations than any other draft in the past 15 years.  ‘Illegal and brutal’: RFE/RL reports on the Rechnik demolition, with a hint of class warfare?  Now-displaced residents of the Moscow neighborhood have reportedly appealed to the United States and Germany for asylum.