Medvedev celebrates end of U.S. financial dominance;

Top democratic party bows to Kremlin control

Moscow fights financial fire with $50 billion bailout;

Gorbachev to head new reformist party

Russia backtracks on Arctic claims;

Kremlin infighting leads to bloodshed

Medvedev turns to Arctic to "

secure Russian interests"

Moscow formalizes treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Russian defense spending to surge 27% in 2009;

Russia withdraws from (most of) Georgia