TODAY: Artist detained for holding expo in Moscow; New Year’s opposition marches banned.  Ten years in power (one way or another) for Vladimir Putin; poll shows approval for Yeltsin-Putin handover.  Population growth?  Cybercrime in a different language; the influence of the blockbuster on space policy; Russia’s magnetic attraction

Russian-born artist Igor Cherchenko, a member of Russia’s outlawed National Bolshevik Party, has been detained alongside another National Bolskevik, Dmitri Yelizarov, for holding an exhibition of his paintings in Moscow, the Other Russia reports.  The city of Moscow has denied three opposition groups, Another Russia, Moscow Helsinki Group and the Leftist Front, the right to hold a New Year’s Eve rally, an interdiction which, Another Russia protests, violates Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.  The International Federation of Journalists will imminently release a report on the most dangerous countries in the world for the media: Russia looks to be placed 5th in terms of the number of media workers killed this year.  President Medvedev may have suggested that the problem of anti-semitism is waning, but the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia is reinstating an anti-Semitism hotline.