- Full text of an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, signed by more than a hundred public figures from around the world, in response to the decision to close the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.
- Message delivered by Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila, acknowledging his victory after two rounds of elections in July and October 2006-the country’s first multiparty polls since 1965. (Also see the essay by Herbert F. Weiss in this issue.)