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“Lens,” Public sightings of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s once and perhaps future president, have dwindled in the days since his political party was hammered in parliamentary elections on December 4. Putin’s party, United Russia, took a little over 50 percent of the vote—down from 64 percent four yea...

“Lens,” Public sightings of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s once and perhaps future president, have dwindled in the days since his political party was hammered in parliamentary elections on December 4. Putin’s party, United Russia, took a little over 50 percent of the vote—down from 64 percent four yea...

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The World: Russia, Part 1 “Lens,” Public sightings of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s once and perhaps future president, have dwindled in the days since his political party was hammered in parliamentary elections on December 4. Putin’s party, United Russia, took a little over 50 percent of the vote—down from 64 percent four yea... The World: Russia, Part 2 Tens of thousands in Moscow and other Russian cities turned out to denounce the election results—the biggest protests the country had seen since the fall of Soviet regime two decades ago. Observers noted that this time around much of the dissatisfaction came not from the poor or the intelligentsi... The World: Russia, Part 3 Meanwhile, Russia’s current president, Dmitri Medvedyev, carried on with the lonely job of leadership. This awkward moment came during a Kremlin ceremony in which Medvedyev handed flags to a modern Cossack group. Photo by Mikhail Klementyev/AFP/Getty Images “Lens,” New York Times The World: Euro Zone, Part 1 Weeks of tough negotiations led to the fiscal pact adopted in Brussels last week. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, seen together here while holding meetings in Paris, seemed to agree that Europe, mired in a debt crisis, had only one way to go. Photo by Ian La... The World: Euro Zone, Part 2 In Brussels, Germany’s Merkel persuaded every current member of the European Union (except Britain) to endorse a new agreement calling for tighter regional oversight of government spending. Bloomberg Businessweek put the sober new face of European leadership on its cover. Photo by Martin Schoel... The World: Hot Zone For its January issue, Vanity Fair sent photographer James Nachtwey to Japan to document workers who have been cleaning up damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which suffered a meltdown following last March’s massive tsunami. Nachtwey’s pictures captured the fatalistic heroism of those wh... The World: Cold Zone It looks like a scene from a Star Wars movie—just another battle on an ice planet—but in fact these are Mongolian tribesmen taking part in a camel race during the winter Naadam festival in Hulun Buir, north China’s Inner Mongolia region. Oddly, Hulun Buir sounds like a far, far away outpost in a ... Cover Story, Part 1 This week Newsweek reports on the end of cancer and the rise of Newt Gingrich in Republican presidential primary polls, which some might see as a break-even proposition at best. Jake Chessum’s cover photo captures the self-inflating aura of the former congressman, who has never been less than aud... Cover Story, Part 2 The New York Times paid high-concept tribute to villainy in last Sunday’s issue. Film critic A.O. Scott noted that 2011 saw the death of both Lord Voldemort, the preeminent cinematic villain of the past decade, and the death of Osama bin Laden, the decade’s great real-life bad guy. “Whether or no... Premature Pinup The photo scandal of the week? Those nudes of Lindsay Lohan shot by photographer Yu Tsai for Playboy. The pictures themselves—shot in the style of Tom Kelley’s famous 1949 pinup photos of Marilyn Monroe—weren’t the cause of the sturm und drang. Rather, it was the fact that they were leaked on the... Scarlett Fever Scarlett Johansson slipped out of the tabloids and into something a little more stylish this month, appearing on the cover of Interview magazine wearing a Dolce&Gabbana body suit. Johansson, recently divorced and the victim of a hacker who uploaded private nude photos of her onto the Internet, is... Little Women Sisters Elle and Dakota Fanning have grown up in front of movie cameras, and our eyes. Being photographed by Mario Sorrenti for W is a lovely rite of passage. Photos by Mario Sorrenti. W Pandering Is there any cuter than a panda? The answer is no, so we sign off on 2011 with this picture. It shows a giant panda named Yang Guang inside a big FedEx shipping container at the Chengdu Shanghai International Airport, awaiting a flight to Scotland and a new life at the Edinburgh Zoo. Shooting thr...