TODAY: Concerns over potential unrest; bill could impose curfews on teenagers; Russia suggests deal with US on missile defense, blocks UN resolution on Holodomor.

Crashing energy prices are stirring concerns about the potential for unrest in Russia.  Yegor Gaidar, prime minister in the early 90s, said, ‘I’ve already seen how things get worse as the result of an oil-price collapse.  It’s dangerous — but people who have not governed a nuclear-armed country don’t quite understand that.‘  Read more opposition concerns about reforms to Russia’s justice system, including recent decisions to suspend crimes against the state from being tried by jury, and to expand the definition of treason.  In a bid to reduce juvenile delinquency, Russia’s parliament is studying a bill to impose a night-time curfew on under 14-year-olds that would ban them from ‘places deemed harmful to their morals‘ after 10pm.