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For Russia and the United States, this year began with a new row that revived the atmosphere of a Cold War and deepened the political crisis in Russia.

As 2012 drew to a close the two countries adopted legislation penalising each other for alleged human rights abuses.

Shortly before the New Year, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that blacklists Russian officials allegedly implicated in the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and in other “gross violations of human rights