Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#123 :: 9 July 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#123 :: 9 July 2013
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POLITICS

1. Interfax: Love more important than career for most Russians – poll.
2. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Age Structure Is Very Similar To Other East European Countries.
3. RIA Novosti: Russians Still Get News From TV But Trust It Much Less – Poll.
4. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: 58 Percent of Russians Now Say Kremlin Using Repression.
5. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russian Analyst Claims Ruling Elite Using Opinion Polls To Cover Up Own Weaknesses. (Stanislav Belkovskiy)
6. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, Gordeyeva and Russian emigrants: Brave Sir Robins?
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Moscow mayoral election to decide opposition’s fate. Depending on Sept. 8 election results, the opposition in Russia could effectively be shut down.
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, July 9, 2013.
9. ITAR-TASS: Communists name ten reasons for government’s resignation.
10. Moscow Times: Navalny Defiant in Closing Remarks.
11. New York TImes: Text of Navalny’s Closing Remarks in Russian Court.
12. Gazeta.ru: Poll Shows Russian Public Awareness of Navalnyy Increasing.
13. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Navalny’s day in court: politics and protection.
14. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Opposition leader Navalny gets chances to run in mayoral race.
15. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: No Ideological Differences Seen Between Mayoral Electionl Programs of Sobyanin, Navalnyy.
16. AP: Russia’s prosecutor general lashes out at NGOs.
17. Gazeta.ru editorial: Russian Authorities Seen Seeking ‘Total Control’ Over All NGO Funding.
18. Interfax: Russian NGOs received over 30 billion rubles of financing in six months – Prosecutor General.
19. Moscow Times: Victor Davidoff, The Latest Victim of Putin’s Purges.
20. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Collateral Damage from Three New Russian Laws.
21. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Internet: Between Regulation and Censorship.
22. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russian Academy of Sciences’ reform slowed down.
23. Scientific American: Political Standoff Causes Concern over the Future of Science in Russia. (interview with Vladimir Fortov)
24. New York TImes: Masha Gessen, No Good News From Russia.
25. Moscow Times: Architectural Preservation’s Politics.
26. New York Times: Bolshoi Director Is Removed After Scandals.

ECONOMY

27. ITAR-TASS: Both ministers and experts doubt Russia’s 2014-2016 budget is realistic.
28. Business New Europe: MOSCOW BLOG: Russia puts spending on guns ahead schools.
29. www.russiatoday.com: Over $45 billion in ‘suspicious transactions’ left Russia in 2013.
30. Interfax: Penalties for environmental pollution rise by degree of magnitude in Russia.
31. Reuters: EU hits Russia with first WTO dispute over car levy.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

32. ITAR-TASS: Russia takes new steps to improve its image abroad.
33. Interfax: Russians do not expect new world war – poll.
34. Moscow Times/AP: Snowden Affair Raises Doubts About Obama Moscow Visit.
35. www.russiatoday.com: Russian MP deletes tweet claiming Snowden chooses Venezuela for asylum.
36. RAPSI: Russia is not a security rival to the US – Ambassador McFaul.
37. Interfax: U.S. ambassador asked to get Obama to raise Russian human rights issues with Putin.
38. Valdai Discussion Club: Dmitry Suslov, A new start for Russian-US counter-terrorism cooperation?
39. Interfax: Human right activist supports British ban on Russians on Magnitsky List.
40. ITAR-TASS: Russia urges NATO’s nuclear states to bring non-strategic nuke weapons back to their territories.
41. Interfax: Moscow slams West’s ‘double standards’-based Syria policy.
42. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Grigory Kosach, Morsi’s ouster won’t solve Egypt’s problems. Russia must play an active role in helping to restore stability in the country.

LONG ITEM

43. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: TV Program Maker, Duma Committee Head Pushkov Views Russia’s International Relations.