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After several months of speculation, ICANN have awarded Russia the first non-latin domain extension; .РФ (.RF). This will be available from next July according to Kommersant, the Russian newspaper.

Is this a good thing? Well there has been an unusually strong push for a “Russian” domain extension in Russia recently. Even Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation threw his weight behind the campaign.

A lot of funny pictures in Russia.

In the last two years, Russia has warned, in increasingly strident terms, of it's objection to plans by the U.S. and it's allies to deploy a defensive missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. In addition Russia has said in the past that there are certain "red lines" in foreign relations that no nation should cross. Russia's Foreign Minister today stated that the U.S. and Czech Republic will have crossed over such a "red line" if the defensive missile agreement just signed is ratified by the Czech Parliament.

Russia will deploy a short-range missile system in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad bordering Poland and Lithuania, in response to US plans to set up a missile shield in the area, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday."The Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralize, when necessary, the (US) missile shield," Medvedev said in his first State-of-the-Nation address to the Federal Assembly.Russia will also deploy equipment in the western region to electronically jam the US missile defense system, said Medvedev, adding that resources of the Russian N

Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006.