POLITICS Outgoing St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko, who is expected to head the Russian parliament’s upper house in the near future, had a closed meeting with Federation Council members. (Kommersant, Moskovskie Novosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Izvestia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta) NATO and Russia again failed to agree on European missile defense. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta) Russian Prime Minister […]