TODAY: Double terror attack hits Volgograd, sparking fears of Olympic terror; Moscow will seek to freeze Khodorkovsky compensation; Putin’s 2013 victories; Rosneft’s Morgan Stanley buy; theatre employees threatened over Pussy Riot screening; VKontakte sued; drugs bill seeks to punish NGOs.

One day after a bomb attack killed 16 people in Volgograd’s central railway station, a second explosion on a trolley bus has killed a further 15 people in the same city.  Both bombs are being treated as terrorist attacks, sparking fears of an increase in violence in the final run-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.  ‘Holding the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi was always going to be a risk,’ says the Times.  RFE/RL assesses the terrorist threat for the Games, as many sources anticipate that the heightened security measures planned for Sochi itself could force insurgents to seek easier targets.  The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay Mikhail Khodorkovsky €10,000 compensation for case violations – but Moscow is apparently seeking to have the funds frozen immediately under the stipulations of the original 2005 verdict against him.  The Times has named President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year, citing his victories with Syria, Ukraine, and Edward Snowden.  Under a new law signed by Putin, spreading separatist views will be a criminal offence, punishable by up to five years in jail.