NATO Secretary-General and ‘optimist‘ Anders Fogh Rasmussen ‘take[s] it for granted that Russia will not use or misuse‘ its French Mistral warships against neighboring countries.  Patriarch Kirill has created a special clergy department to oversee and ensure the implementation of parishes in each prison.  According to Vladimir Putin, the government spent about 3.5 billion rubles ($117 million) in three years to prepare for the Vancouver Games, and accused officials of misspending the funds. ‘I have got an impression that the more money we spend, the more modest the results are,‘ he said.  Watch a video interview with rights activist Sergei Kovalyov, who says that Russia’s constitution ‘is virtually the same today as it was under Stalin‘.