Mikhail Markelov, the brother of Stanislav Markelov, the human rights lawyer murdered in January of this year, said he has conducted an investigation parallel to the official one and that those responsible for the killing are known to the authorities and will be arrested soon. ‘Not since the time of Joseph Stalin […] have the political killings [in Russia] been so blatant — or so chillingly common,‘ says the Washington Post.  Mayor Yury Luzhkov has denied ‘baseless‘ widespread reports that a monument to Stalin would be installed in the Kurskaya metro station. British foreign secretary David Miliband will visit Moscow next month in a joint effort to normalize relations.  Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says Russia is not supplying S-300 defensive surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, but does not give especially reassuring reasons for this.  ‘Presently, there are no such supplies,‘ he was quoted as saying.