TODAY: US-Russia adoption issues remain thorny; Sochi land seizures apparently ‘resolved’; Ukrainian journalists protest; message of trust for Poland from Putin.  Plea from Georgian ambassador to UK to Abkhazia; has Lukashenko overplayed his hand?  US reveals size of nuclear arsenal at WMD conference; Iran and Russia to launch joint satellites.

‘Russia has more orphans now, 700,000, than at the end of World War II, when an estimated 25 million Soviet citizens were killed’: the New York Times looks at the Russian children who will spend their lives in state care.  Apparently a senior State Department official believes that some in Russia wish to see all US adoptions ended (given that 17 Russian children have been killed by their adoptive US parents since the 1990s.)  The Deputy Prime Minister had told President Medvedev that issues surrounding land seizures in Sochi have been resolved through redistribution, ‘with a maximum attention for citizen’s interests’.  The Other Russia has a round-up of the weekend’s May Day protests and rallies.  Leaning Westwards?  A group of Ukrainian journalists in Lviv have chained themselves to a train to Europe in protest about crack downs on freedom of speech in the Ukrainian press.