A member of United Russia is calling for a public council that would improve and prevent bias on state television, an appeal which was dismissed by some as a populist stunt.  A 300-strong Moscow protest against rising gas prices drew police attention, with two participants beaten and opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov arrested.  Eduard Limonov’s request to hold a Strategy 31 rally in Triumfalnaya Square has been rejected, apparently because a pro-Kremlin group will be using the square for a blood drive instead.  The fact that Russia didn’t use its veto in the U.N. Security Council resolution on Libya indicates that, ‘for the first time since the early 1990s, Russia has something resembling a positive foreign policy agenda,‘ says Dmitry Trenin.  All the same, the country has expressed regret about the violence seen thus far in the new war, and is calling for an end to ‘non-selective attacks‘.  A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that 48 civilians had been killed and 150 wounded in the air strikes thus far (current numbers are slightly higher).