it is the national guard) drilling on the outskirts of Moscow to break up a far larger protest than in Smolensk. While the website did not release details of the simulation, protesters can be seen building tire barricades and carrying Latvian and Russian flags, as well as the standard of a popular Moscow soccer team, CSKA.

Some elements reminded viewers of the volatile protests that led to Ukraine's 2014 Maidan revolution, specifically the stacks of tires that protesters set on fire during the winter demonstration. The videos show Russian police using tear gas and water cannons, and dropping water from a helicopter in a technique usually employed to fight forest fires. The video was released several days after Putin announced the formation of Rosgvardia.

Activists have also pointed to Russianof the summer," the newspaper writes. "Now, Chinese and foreign health officials say that some of those contested measures - more easily adopted by an authoritarian state - may have helped slow the spread of the disease in the world's most populous country. China has not had to cope with a crush of cases, and it began administering a vaccine for swine flu in early September, the first country to do so."

The article examines how the Chinese government responded to the H1N1 outbreak compared to the SARS outbreak, just a few years ago, and examines the number of H1N1-related deaths in the country (Wong, 11/11).

Meanwhile, the Serbian government on Wednesday declared H1N1 to be an epidemic, according to a statement by the country's health minister, Tomica Milosavljevic, Bloomberg