Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#176 :: Thursday 26 September 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#176 :: 26 September 2013
E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net
A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES.org) at The George Washington University‘s Elliott School of International Affairs
JRL homepage: russialist.org
JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist
JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi
Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php

POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Michael Pudaloff, My Eyewitness Account of White House Attack.
2. RIA Novosti: Bill Clinton Offers Rare US Praise for Putin.
3. Reuters: Russia needs more risk takers. (Boris Titov)
4. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Russian volunteerism: An uphill battle.
5. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club (partial transcript continued).
6. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Kremlin Policies Increasingly at Odds with Values of Russians, Polls Suggest.
7. ITAR-TASS: Work on standard Russian history manual proves really daunting task.
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Sept. 26, 2013.
9. Slon.ru: Commentators Discuss United Russia’s Prospects in Light of Recent Election Results.
10. Novaya Gazeta: Russian Opposition Figure Yavlinskiy Views Navalnyy as Front for Business Interests.
11. Moskovskiy Komsomolet: Commentator Belkovskiy Views Navalnyy’s Popularity.
12. Interfax: Abkhazia, S. Ossetia to be Surkov’s only responsibilities – Ivanov.
13. Moscow Times: Science Reform Bill Passes Federation Council.
14. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, Reforms Spell the End for Russian Sciences.
15. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How former Soviet countrymen resettle in Russia.
16. Novaya Gazeta: Newspaper Infiltrates ‘Trolling Company’ Hiring Bloggers To Write Pro-Kremlin Comments.
17. Moscow Times: Floods in Sochi Cast Doubt on Olympic Infrastructure.
18. New York Times: Pinpricks, but No Dagger in Putinland. Moscow Biennale Draws Official Praise, and Some Grumbling.
19. Michael Herzen: Navalny.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

20. RIA Novosti: Russia Says Sarin Gas in Aug. 21 Syria Attack Was ‘Homemade’.
21. Washington Post: Lally Weymouth, An interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
22. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, On Syria, the language of force keeps US and Russia far apart.
23. The National Interest: Gordon Hahn, The Caucasus and Russia’s Syria Policy.
24. Moscow Times: Sergei Markov, Russia Must Stop U.S. Aggression.
25. Moscow Times: Russia’s UN Delegation Walks Out During Saakashvili’s ‘Crazy’ Speech.
26. Moscow Times: Russia Pushes for Further Arctic Exploitation.
27. BBC Monitoring: Putin defends Russia’s environmental credentials in the Arctic.
28. RIA Novosti: Russian Experts Split On Iranian President’s Statements In New York.
29. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Bushehr nuclear plant turned over to Iran. Tehran hopes the transfer marks the first step toward building more plants, but Russia is hesitant.
30. US-Russia.org: William Dunkerley. What Klutz Handles Putin’s PR?