PRIVETSTVIYA, COMRADE ROCKERS! –

SecDef, schmeckdef: According to reports, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev couldn’t wait to finish meeting with Gates this week so he could welcome his next guests: rock group Deep Purple. As Bloomberg’s Lyubov Pronina and Henry Meyer report, Medvedev was a star struck lifelong fan: “When I started listening to Deep Purple, I of course could not imagine that I would be sitting with you at this table.” The Russian president reportedly played a Deep Purple song at full blast on a reel-to-reel tape recorder as he met the band. http://bloom.bg/fuhHto