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US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice talks to other diplomats before a vote on a resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council during a meeting on Syria February 4, 2012 at the United Nations in New York. Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests for the second time. Thirteen countries voted for the resolution proposed by European and Arab nations to give strong backing to the Arab League's plan to end the crackdown. But Russia and China made a repeat of their rare double veto carried out on October 5 on an earlier condemnation.

The chief of analysis services of Russia’s leading independent election watchdog Golos (The Vote), Aleksandr Kynev, speaks at a press conference in Moscow on January 30, 2012. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised on January 30 to build a 'new economy' in Russia as he admitted its prosperity was still held back by a litany of ills despite his 12-year domination of the country. Putin's pledges came in an article for business daily Vedomosti, the latest in a series of wordy tracts setting out his vision for Russia ahead of the March 4 presidential poll where he plans to win a third Kremlin term.

One of the newly elected lawmakers, former chief of Kremlin staff Sergei Naryshkin smiles before the opening of the first session of Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, in Moscow, on December 21, 2011. The State Duma, where Vladimir Putin's United Russia ruling party obtained 238 out of 450 seats, is widely expected to approve the candidacy of Sergei Naryshkin as the new speaker.

Syrian-Americans hold placards across the road from the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles on December 16, 2011 to protest against the veto by China and Russia last month against a UN Security Council resolution condemning the crackdown by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. China was among 41 nations to abstain from voting on the resolution, which strongly condemned 'continued grave and systematic human rights violations' by Syria that the United Nations estimates has left more than 3,500 dead. Both China and Russia have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the crackdown, saying it would be used as an excuse to carry out regime change. The Chinese consulate in Los Angeles' Koreatown district was the scene of a shooting a day earlier after scuffles between protesters and security guard, but no one was injured.

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