Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#185 :: Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#185 ::16 October 2013
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POLITICS

1. AFP: Top Putin critic Navalny avoids prison on appeal.
2. ITAR-TASS: Court alters Navalny’s sentence to suspended.
3. Interfax: Navalny may be subject to planned amnesty – Human Rights Council head.
4. R-Sport: Russia Qualify for First World Cup in 12 Years.
5. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Apathetic Russians have little interest in political process. According to data from surveys, almost two thirds of Russians are indifferent to the political situation in the country. In their explanation of these results experts claim in the first instance that the population are more focused on everyday problems and do not trust those in power.
6. RIA Novosti: Russian Parliament Introduces Fines for Smoking in Public.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Divorce, Russian style. Russia has the highest divorce rate in the world, but the causes and consequence of broken marriages aren’t surprising.
8. ITAR-TASS: Memorial for honest public official unveiled in St. Petersburg.
9. Russia & India Report: The snipers of Black October. Twenty years ago Boris Yeltsin’s army and elected Russian parliamentarians clashed in Moscow, resulting in hundreds, even thousands, of casualties. Investigations now suggest the bloodbath was sparked by snipers, some of whom were perched on the roof of the American embassy.
10. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 16, 2013.
11. Moscow Times: Police Detain Suspect in Biryulyovo Killing.
12. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russian race riot: Why did police detain hundreds who had nothing to do with it?
13. RIA Novosti: Ethnic Tensions in Moscow Spook the City’s Migrants.
14. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Factors Behind Racially Motivated Violent Incidents in Moscow Analyzed.
15. ITAR-TASS: Sobyanin: Vegetable warehouse owners in Biryulyovo ruined by greed.
16. ITAR-TASS: Russian migration service chief urges criminal responsibility for employing illegal migrants.
17. Business New Europe: Julia Reed, Russian govt rhetoric worsens immigrants’ plight.
18. Moscow Times: ‘Against All’ Option Could Reappear on Election Ballots.
19. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses Greenpeace protest, culture, inequality.
20. ITAR-TASS: Speakers’ corners in Moscow have not gained expected popularity yet.
21. St. Petersburg Times: Speakers’ Corners Planned.
22. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Three Disturbing New Russian Legal Initiatives.
23. St. Petersburg Times: Coming Out Day Ends in Fights, Arrests.
24. Asia Times: Spengler, Reports of Russia’s death are exaggerated.

ECONOMY

25. Interfax: Third of Russians say country is in economic crisis.
26. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia sees consumption boom for fear of another crisis.
27. ITAR-TASS: Looming US default may exert indirect effect on Russia.
28. Interfax: Macroeconomic factors to work against oil prices in 2014 – Klepach.
29. ITAR-TASS: Moscow, Petersburg occupy middle positions in Business Pulse ratings.
30. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, Russia’s Economy: Not as Insulated as It Thinks.
31. Moscow Times: Anders Aslund, The Dangers of Growing Russian Parochialism.
32. RIA Novosti: Russia Preparing Property Restrictions for Foreigners – Paper.
33. NewsRu.com: Steve Wozniak: Russia’s future is in technology.
34. Moscow Times: Car Ownership Easier, More Expensive.
35. Bloomberg: Putin Builds North Korea Rail to Circumvent Suez Canal.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

36. Reuters: Russia keeps faith in U.S. debt, sees default being averted.
37. ITAR-TASS: USA: 24 hours before default.
38. The Hindustan Times (India): Nandan Unnikrishnan, Russia wants a relationship of equals with the US.
39. Interfax: Lavrov calls Russian-U.S. agreement on Syrian chemical weapons renaissance of diplomacy.
40. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia and the US from a Syrian perspective. Syrian activists urge world powers to trust in civil society.
41. Kommersant: Moscow Daily Says ‘Wrong’ to Expect Breakthrough at 5+1 Talks with Iran in Geneva.
42. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: China Seen to Be Developing Its Plans for Economic Cooperation with Central Asia, Transcaucasus.
43. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Academy of Sciences Expert Views Developments in Russia’s Relations with DPRK.
44. Interfax: Medvedev doesn’t see Ukraine’s association with EU as dramatic or fatal.
45. Politkom.ru: Moscow Website Foresees ‘No Sensations’ in Georgian Presidential Election Outcome.