Parliament has plenty to do, including passing a bill, on civil nuclear liability, that is needed to bring to life a nuclear deal signed with the United states.

The main news from Moscow on October 21st, for example, was of how an unworkable nuclear liability law had deterred even Russia, an old ally, from building more nuclear-power stations in India.

Indeed, their whole energy industry-from subsidies for corn ethanol to limited liability for nuclear power-is a slick of preferences and restrictions, without peer.