Dmitri Medvedev

Lady Gaga makes an entrance, Mark Zuckerberg learns a new skill and Saudi women are driven to rebel

Obama visits Moscow; Medvedev visits Tskhinvali. Obama wants “Georgia’s territorial integrity” respected; Medvedev demonstrates his enduring belief that Abkhazia and South Ossetia have nothing to do with Georgia’s territorial integrity.

Can Moscow use the global meltdown to expand its influence?

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia was his country’s equivalent of September 11. He also likens Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to a “pooch” and describes him as an “unpredictable, pathological and mentally unstable drug abuser.” This guy’s all class.

This business of a U.S. ballistic-missile defense system in Poland is a long story, but if you’re still reading my posts on the Georgia conflict, you will almost certainly have noticed the bellicose reaction of a senior Russian general, who said: