TODAY: SCO wraps up in blaze of activity; Medvedev calls BRIC ‘historic event’; no decision from US on defense system; German MPs agree Khodorkovsky trial is trial for Russian justice; Vaclev Havel speaks out against Russia

For detailed step-by-step coverage of the SCO summit, see Ria-Novosti.  The countries endorsed the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov calling his visit to Russia ‘symbolic’.  Yulia Latynina comments on long-standing collusion between Russia and Iran:  ‘Iran spends so much money on Russia that supporters of the Islamic revolution work in the Russian Embassy in Tehran’.   The summit also saw: the signing of a declaration affirming a multipolar world, castigation of North Korea, promises to help Afghanistan and a pledge to allow more members into its circle.  Was the summit a little lacking in substance? wonders RFE/RL.