Since Vladimir Putin regained his seat as President of Russia, reformists have taken to the street in growing numbers to protest against an election they believe was fraudulent and a government they believe is corrupt.

"This is a game without any rules," says chess Grandmaster and reformist Garry Kasparov who spoke to Christiane Amanpour from Moscow about the rising impatience among Russians.

Kasparov has been fighting for political change in Russia full time since retiring as an international chess master in 2005, but even he's surprised at how quickly the tone has changed in Russia. "I don't believe anyone at the end of November, early December, could have made such a prediction that very soon, the Russian political landscape would change so dramatically."

Kasparov believes that the Russian people were willing to give Putin the benefit of the doubt a decade ago when he rose to power, but in 2012 there is still no sign of economic recovery, even with the high price of oil and the

This week on Around the World, Christiane Amanpour speaks with David Ignatius of the Washington Post to discuss the foiled Al-Qaeda terror plot targeting an overseas jetliner and the country of origin of the plot, Yemen.

Yemen is one of the regions poorest countries and Al-Qaeda has taken advantage of their political unrest to gain influence and set up a home base of operations. This is where bomb builder Ibrahim Al-Asiri has set up shoo, working to to construct an undetectable bomb to take down airplanes heading towards the United States.

These developments come a week after the released private papers of Osama Bin Laden, a year after his death. These memos provide unique insight on the inner workings of the much diminished Al-Qaeda infrastructure. David Ignatius reveals why Al-Qaeda's current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is the just the person U.S. officials were hoping would assume leadership of the terror organization.

In the released papers, Ignatius was fascinated to learn that

After a six year legal battle, former Liberian president Charles Taylor became the first head of state to be convicted of war crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court at the Hague in the Netherlands.

Those who lived under his rule- suffering through acts of murder and slavery- celebrated the verdict. But critics of the ICC believe that the Taylor trial took too long and the system stands gridlocked.

To discuss the International Criminal Court, Christiane Amanpour sat down with the Director of Human Rights Watch International Justice Program, Richard Dicker.

Mr. Dicker agrees that the court moves too slowly but he believes that "accountability through criminal trials, even 10-15 years after the crimes occurred, is essential in creating the conditions for a durable peace."

To Mr. Dicker, the success of the ICC needs to be seen on multiple levels. The progress that's been made to hold heads of state accountable for war crimes would have been unfathomable even 20