Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#184 :: Tuesday, 15 October 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#184 ::15 October 2013
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POLITICS

1. Reuters: Moscow police tighten security to prevent riots during Eid.
2. ITAR-TASS: Suspected murderer of young Muscovite detained outside Moscow.
3. Moscow Times: Riot Called a Result of Growing Anti-Migrant Sentiment.
4. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Probe into Sunday’s nationalist riots in Moscow goes on.
5. BBC Monitoring: Russian human rights officials blame Moscow unrest on corruption.
6. Moscow Times: Biryulyovo Residents Warn of More Unrest.
7. RIA Novosti: Over Half of Russians Say Life is Hard, But Bearable ­- Poll.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Saying a long farewell to the inner Red Man. The definitive exploration of Homo Sovieticus can be found in the non-fiction world of Svetlana Alexievich.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 15, 2013.
10. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Moscow Riot And Russian Nationalism: It’s Time To Start Worrying .
11. RIA Novosti: Natalia Antonova, Moscow -­ Riots and Working Class Antiheroes.
12. ITAR-TASS: Visas for guest workers won’t resolve Russia’s inter-ethnic problems, analysts say.
13. RIA Novosti: No Need To Toughen Russian Immigration Law Despite Riots – Senior Official
14. Interfax: Alekseyeva backs police actions in Biryulyovo.
15. The Voice of Russia: Dmitry Babich, Liberalism hand in glove with nationalism: a strange tandem in Byryulevo ‘protests’
16. RFE/RL: Nationalist Riots In Moscow Send Fear Through Muslim Migrant Communities.
17. BBC Monitoring: Problems that led to Moscow unrest must be addressed – Russian MPs.
18. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses race riot in Moscow.
19. The Interpreter: Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, “Their Brains Are Like a Wrecking Ball.” Analysis of Moscow’s race riots.
20. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russian Political Debate has Shifted from Liberals vs. Derzhavniki to Left vs. Right Nationalists, Pain Says.
21. Moscow TImes: Nikolai Petrov, Open Season on Governors.
22. Interfax: Navalny says appellate court will not acquit him of Kirovles embezzlement charges.
23. Moscow Times: Broad Amnesty Proposals Need to Be ‘Revised’
24. New York Times: Ellen Barry, Down a Road Less Traveled, Looking for the Still Heart of Russia. (photography)

ECONOMY

25. Interfax: Only innovative economic model can ensure sustainable growth – Dvorkovich.
26. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Chris Weafer, Between regulation and the free market. In Russia, the era of Soviet command economy is over, but state policies still create an important backdrop to economic activity.
27. Moscow Times: Putin Amendment Calls for Restoring Tax Fraud Investigative Authority to Power Ministries.
28. Interfax: Russia to set up Federal Copyright Service.
29. Forbes.com: Tim Stanley, How Your Russia Office Could Run Away.
30. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Expert Predicts Rouble-Dollar Exchange Rate May Rise If US Defaults.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

31. Huffington Post: Jonathan Adelman, Russia Is Back.
32. Moscow Times: John Lough, Russia’s Public Relations Disaster in the North.
33. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s lessons from Libya prevent same scenario in Syria.
34. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Moscow Daily: Recent Events Show ‘Ungovernable’ Nature of Libyan State.
35. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Syria: Nothing left to do but unite the opposition? Chemical weapons are being destroyed, but hope for peace remains dim.
36. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Another round of talks over Iranian nuclear problem to begin in Geneva.
37. Moscow Times: Alexander Golts, Colder War: The Militarization of the Arctic.
38. Wall Street Journal: Russia, EU Take Different Tacks in Trying to Woo the Neighbors .
39. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Sergei Markedonov, Abkhazia: A nation-state project under Russia’s auspices. 20 years after declaring its independence, Abkhazia’s geopolitical choices remain strongly intertwined with Russia’s financial support and the country’s military.
40. RIA Novosti: Russia Has No Plans to Talk Ukraine Out of EU Bid ­- Gov’t.
41. ITAR-TASS: Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers to hold talks in Kaluga.
42. Valdai Discussion Club: Dmitry Gorenburg, Does the US have vital security interests in Central Asia?
43. Moscow News: Book Excerpt: Searching for a Russian American Colony. An excerpt from Owen Matthews’ critically acclaimed new book ‘Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America’]