Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#161 :: 5 September 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#161 :: 5 September 2013
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POLITICS

1. AP: 10 interesting things Russia’s Putin told the AP.
2. Kremlin.ru: Interview to Channel One and Associated Press news agency.
3. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Sept. 5, 2013.
4. Moscow Times: Navalny Backs Economic Amnesty, Windfall Tax on Privatized Assets .
5. Business New Europe/Global Counsel: Benjamin Wegg-Prosser and Alexander Smotrov, The Moscow election – too big to jail.
6. Moscow Times: Konstantin Sonin, Why Putin Might Want Navalny as Mayor.
7. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russian Intelligentsia Prepared to Overlook Navalny’s Nationalism.
8. Carnegie Moscow Center: Nikolay Petrov, September 8 Election As a New Phase of the Society and Authorities’ Coevolution.
9. BBC Monitoring: Putin admits problems with law on ‘foreign agents’ NGOs.
10. RIA Novosti: Moscow Gives Office to Evicted Human Rights NGO.
11. Moscow Times: Leader of Embattled Elections Watchdog Has Left Russia, Report Says.
12. www.opendemocracy.net: Aleksandr Chuikov, Revolt of the professors. (re reform of Academy of Sciences)
13. New York Times: Russian Youth Group With a Mission: Sniffing Out Illegal Migrants.
14. New York Times: Tatyana I. Zaslavskaya, Adviser to Gorbachev, Dies at 86.

ECONOMY

15. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s economy becomes slightly more competitive in 1 year.
16. Interfax: Ruble will not change dramatically in next three-four years – Kudrin.
17. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Putin: Russia will have to cut budget expenditure over low economic growth.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

18. ITAR-TASS: Putin satisfied with development of Russian-Chinese relations.
19. RIA Novosti: China, Russia Clinch Terms of Multi-Billion Dollar Gas Deal.
20. BBC Monitoring: Putin ‘very much hoping’ to talk to Obama on sidelines of G20 summit.
21. ITAR-TASS: Putin and Obama shake hands for first time after G8 summit in UK.
22. Moscow Times: Putin Doesn’t Rule Out Support for Syria Strike.
23. RIA Novosti: Russian Pundits See Putin’s Statement On Syria As Manoeuvring Before G20.
24. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, On eve of G20, Putin set to make big push on Syria.
25. Financial Times: US-Russia grandstanding threatens to hijack G20 debate.
26. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Editorial Calls for Russian-US Talks on Syria at G20 Summit.
27. Interfax: Leading Russian rights activists not to meet Obama in St Petersburg.
28. RIA Novosti: US Wary in Courting Russian Support for Syria Strike – Experts.
29. Izvestia: Russian Expert: US Syria Intervention Could Be ‘Crushing Repeat Mistake.’ (Said Gafurov)
30. Politkom.ru: Pundit Argues Syrian Insurgents Most Likely Perpetrators of Chemical Weapons Attack. (Anton Yevstratov)
31. Interfax: Moscow discloses expert findings related to use of chemical weapons in Syria.
32. ITAR-TASS: Pentagon disavows Hagel’s claims on Russian supplies of chemical weapons to Syria.
33. Washington Post editorial: Vladimir Putin’s ‘ludicrous’ stance on Syria’s chemical weapons.
34. Washington Post: Dana Milbank, The White House’s Syria secrets.
35. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Global Image More Negative than Positive -­ Poll.

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