■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (3)

■Leaders
Russia’s future
The cracks appear (85)
Islamists, elections and the Arab spring
And the winner is… (41)
Ten years of China in the WTO
Shades of grey (10)
The EU summit
Beware the Merkozy recipe (25)
Video games
The serious business of fun (7)

■Letters
Letters
On the London Stock Exchange, roundabouts, bond markets, Thomas Cook, the Keystone XL pipeline, diasporas

■Briefing
Russia
The long life of Homo sovieticus (5)

■United States
The election
The president chooses his ground (38)
The economy and stimulus
Looking up (10)
Transport in Georgia
Spare a penny? (2)
Technology and civil liberties
Don’t shoot (5)
Detroit nears bankruptcy
Nowhere to run (1)
Insider trading and Congress
Capitol crimes (4)
Tort reform
Closing the lottery (2)
Lexington
The wretched Middle East (9)

■The Americas
Canada and the United States
The border two-step (8)
Colombia’s floods
That damned Niña (1)
Mining in Peru
Doing the Conga (1)
Publishing in Latin America
A literary deficit (2)

■Asia
China’s economy and the WTO
All change (4)
Chinese politics and the WTO
No change (5)
Japan’s energy crisis
Nuclear winter (1)
Market reform in India
Off their trolleys (11)
Banyan
Hornets’ nest (2)

■Middle East and Africa
Political Islam
Everywhere on the rise (25)
Israel and the Islamists
Oh no! But let’s talk, maybe (14)
The religious right in Israel
It’s on the rise too (3)
Uncertainty in Iran
Did they really mean to do it? (4)
Congo’s election
It could get worse (6)
South Africa’s courts
President v judges

■Europe
Political crisis in Russia
Voting, Russian-style (11)
Germany’s debt brake
Tie your hands, please (12)
France and Germany
No thanks for the memories
Italy’s budget
Saving Italy (4)
Romania’s economy
Buckle up (2)
Macedonia’s name dispute
Call it what you want (23)
Charlemagne
Those obstructive Brits (62)

■Britain
Reforming welfare
Nice work if you can find it
Cigars
Up in smoke (2)
Labour’s economic credibility
Fighting to be heard (1)
Local-government finance
Let them eat business rates
Environmental attitudes
Wilting greens (5)
London Gateway
Dockers’ return
Bagehot
God in austerity Britain (2)
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■International
City building
Hong Kong in Honduras
Free cities
Honduras shrugged (3)

■Special report: Video games
All the world’s a game(13)
As you like it
The business of gaming
Thinking out of the box(4)
Paying for pixels
E-sports
Gentlemen, start your computers(8)
Violence and addiction
No killer app(1)
Alternative uses
The play’s the thing
The importance of fun
Homo ludens

■Business
Macau’s gambling industry
A window on China (1)
American telecoms
A breath of fresh airwaves (1)
Thomson Reuters
Screen test (1)
Advertising
Four more years
Biotech patents
Taking it personally
Carmakers
Revenge of the petrolheads (8)
Schumpeter
University challenge

■Briefing
Lessons of the 1930s
There could be trouble ahead (21)

■Finance and economics
Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis
Scaling the summit (47)
The IMF and the euro
Cash for credibility (6)
Mexico’s plunging peso
¡Arriba, arriba!
Buttonwood
Not sharing
Financial accounting
Double-edged deferral
Private equity
One careful owner?
Helping the poor to save
Small wonder (2)
Economics focus
Puns and punditry

■Science and technology
3D printing
The shape of things to come (1)
Arthritis and botulinum toxin
Something to celebrate
Human evolution
A place to rest your weary head (1)
Another Earth?
Home away from home (3)

■Books and arts
Books of the Year
Page-turners (4)
Books by Economist writers in 2011
Pages and pages (1)
The Economist Books of the Year festival

■Obituary
Sócrates (10)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Markets