Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#202 :: Monday, 11 November 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#202 :: 11 November 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Shoigu Says NATO and Terrorism Russia’s Top Challenges.
2. www.russiatoday.com: Russia will never fully abandon military draft – defense minister.
3. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, All Of Eastern Europe Has A Brain Drain Problem.
4. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Big fines fail to deter speeding Russian motorists. New report shows roads in Moscow are more dangerous than anywhere else in Russia.
5. ITAR-TASS: Russian Academy of Sciences: Meteorite threat becoming more acute because of growing population density.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Nov. 11, 2013.
7. ITAR-TASS: Putin calls on police officers to act only within frames of law.
8. BBC Monitoring: Putin urges Russian police to fight nationalism and ethnic crime.
9. Politkom.ru: Attacks on Skolkovo Seen Targeting Medvedev. (Tatyana Stanovaya)
10. Yezhednevnyy Zhurnal: Liberal Commentator Urges Navalnyy To Renounce Nationalism. (Viktor Shenderovich)
11. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russian Pundit Belkovksiy Presents Defense of Opposition Leader Navalnyy.
12. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Aleksey Gorbachev report, Russian March: Postscript. Nationalists Are Becoming a Legal Political Force in Society.
13. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Trying to Put Nationalist Genie Back in the Bottle.
14. Washington Post: Kathy Lally, Rising Russian nationalism sets off ethnic tension.
15. Novyye Izvestiya: Civil Dignity Chairwoman Pamfilova on Distribution of Presidential Grants To NGOs.
16. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Young Russians in Northwest Overwhelmingly Say They’re Europeans and Don’t Want to be Part of Putin’s Eurasian Union.
17. Interfax: Over a quarter of Russians don’t object to restoration of monarchy – poll.
18. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, Cruelty at Russian hospitals: Illegal migration – red herring.
19. Reuters: Greenpeace activists held in Russia being moved to St Petersburg.
20. www.opendemocracy.net: Ola Cichowlas, The Zone. The northern territory of the Perm region is known as ‘the Zone’ ­ a remote region of prison camps and correctional facilities.
21. Moscow Times: Russia Loses, but Proud to Host Miss Universe.
22. Russia Direct: Dominic Basulto, Five reasons why Sochi is the next Petersburg. People are saying the same things about Sochi as they would have said about the founding of imperial Petersburg over 300 years ago. And look at how that turned out.

ECONOMY

23. AFP: Putin’s failure damning Russia to low growth trap.
24. Financial Times editorial: The dilemma of Russia’s slowdown. Reforms are vital but could threaten the current system.
25. Bloomberg: Russia Hinders East Europe Growth Rebound, Development Bank Says.
26. Moscow Times: Russia Surpasses Europe in Shopping Mall Construction.
27. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Silicon Valley comes to Moscow .
28. Moscow Times: Russian Tech Sector Reliant on U.S. Investors and Expertise.
29. Moscow Times: Elena Kulchina, Praise It and They’ll Come. (re foreign investment)
30. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Corporate charity poised to expand. Despite the lack of legislation to encourage corporate giving, social entrepreneurship is growing among Russian firms.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

31. US-Russia.org: Experts Panel Discussion. Russian “non-systemic” opposition and U.S. Foreign Policy.
32. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. U.N. committee approved Russia’s resolution on information security.
33. BBC Monitoring: Russian expert cautiously optimistic on Iran nuclear talks, criticizes France. (Fedor Lukyanov)
34. BBC Monitoring: Russian pundit Satanovskiy says USA has come to terms with Iran getting nukes.
35. ITAR-TASS: Russian experts not expect quick settlement of Iranian nuclear problem.
36. Reuters: Pope Francis meeting with Putin could help mend Catholic-Orthodox relations.
37. www.russiatoday.com: Drop by Drop: Ukraine’s Naftogaz halts Russian gas.
38. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV mocks “missing” Ukrainian president, says EU drive “lost momentum”
39. Reuters: Analysis: Russia’s phantom pain to hurt Ukraine in EU pact.
40. Interfax: Ukraine PM: EU no longer says Tymoshenko “as pure as the driven snow”
41. Gazeta.ru: Russian Commentator Dubious About Ukraine’s Ability to Take Firm Decision on Europe. (Fedor Lukyanov)
42. Interfax: Russia, Georgia quickly rebuilding economic ties – official.
43. Civil Georgia: President-Elect Speaks of Ties with Russia.
44. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Populations of Former Soviet Republics Have Fallen or Increased Less than Projected in 1990.