TODAY: Clinton decries state of human rights in Russia amongst other nations; family of murdered Forbes Russia editor to sue?; mayor imprisoned after taking on FSB; Olympic medals cost fortune. Clinton signs Russia-irking missile defence deal in Poland; Caucasus worries all round; attempts to undermine US-Russia reset pointless says Medvedev, as spy scandal continues to make headlines.  President concerned about demographic decline in Far East; no drink driving; vodka to stay cheap

‘We must be wary of the steel vice in which governments around the world are slowly crushing civil society and the human spirit,’ Hillary Clinton has told a meeting of the Community of Democracies in Poland, putting Russia on the list of countries which she says undermine right groups.  The family of murdered American journalist Paul Klebnikov has announced it may sue Russia in Europe’s human rights court for failing to locate and prosecute his killers.  The New York Times has a disturbing in-depth report on Tatyana Kazakova, the mayor of a village in Siberia, who was imprisoned after suing an FSB-owned resort for endangering the town’s water supplies.  Opposition activists continue to protest outside the state Duma against the new bill to increase the powers of the FSB, says RFE/RL.  The judge who ordered the arrest of Vera Trifonova, the businesswoman who died in pretrial detention in April, has been officially listed as fired, meaning that she will lose her judge’s pension.  Richard Lourie looks at Elie Wiesel’s recent backing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  Sports, Tourism and Youth Politics Minister Vitaly Mutko has come under heavy fire for his hotel bill from the Vancouver Olympics, which concluded that he spent $4,500 on 97 breakfasts in his 20-day stay.