From a Washington Post editorial:

IT’S BEEN nearly a year since Dmitry Medvedev took office as Russia’s president following a much-publicized vow to attack what he called the “legal nihilism” of his country. His record so far is not looking good: Murders of Kremlin opponents have continued, both at home and abroad, without any action against the perpetrators — even though two of the suspects named by foreign police agencies sit in the Russian parliament. Mr. Medvedev raised some eyebrows when he met privately this year with the editors of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta following the broad-daylight murder of a reporter just blocks from the Kremlin. He told President Obama that he was concerned about the beating of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev on the night before last week’s summit meeting. But Mr. Medvedev’s words have yet to be followed by any tangible actions.