TODAY: Clinton in Moscow to push START onwards; complicated Middle East talks loom in background; EU urges Georgia to cease stirring up tensions with Russia; Ukraine to attempt EU-Russia balancing act.  ‘Putin Must Go’ takes to the street; Gryzlov dodges interview; fingerprint database proposal.  Ex-Chechen President to take temporary charge of prisons; campaign to brighten tarnished image of police; 1 in 4 believe no cure for Russia’s drink problem.  Fishing.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Moscow today to help push the long-negotiated arms control deal towards completion, amid reports of ‘very good progress’.  The Washington Post looks over the recent hurdles in the ‘fragile’ reset process.  Clinton will also tackle the Middle East with the Moscow-hosted quartet of Middle East peace mediators.  The Moscow Times suggests that the question of Israeli settlements, complicating the peace process, may undermine Russia’s attempts to gain standing as an important player in the region’s geopolitics.  The EU has called on Georgia to refrain from stoking regional tensions following the panic-inducing hoax invasion report.  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will apparently persevere in integrating Ukraine into the European Union all the while maintaining ‘pragmatic relations’ with Russia.  President Medvedev will visit Kiev on May 17-18.