Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#96 :: 28 May 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#96 :: 28 May 2013
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POLITICS

1. RUSSIAN ANALYTICAL DIGEST: Richard Sakwa, Developed Putinism: Change without Development.
2. www.counterpunch.org: Cesar Chelala, Exacerbating the Negative. The Challenges Confronting Russia.
3. Russia! Magazine: Mark Adomanis, A Few Reasons for Optimism Regarding Russia.
4. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Are we having fun yet? Why the government is telling the creative class to go play outside.
5. RAPSI: Russia Drafts Domestic Violence Prevention Law.
6. Interfax: Evacuation of personnel from Russian Polar stations to begin in mid-June – minister.
7. Interfax: Russia’s transborder traffic 80 times higher than in Soviet Union times.
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, May 28, 2013.
9. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Results from Putin’s Direct Line.
10. Moscow News: Russian government seeks stricter penalties for extremism.
11. RFE/RL: Russia’s Top Social Network Under Fire.
12. Institute of Modern Russia: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Moscow’s 2014 Election: Will the Democrats Unite?
13. www.opendemocracy.net: Ekaterina Loushnikova, Prison or presidency for ‘Russia’s Kennedy’? .(re Aleksey Navalny)
14. Interfax: Khodorkovsky reiterates he has no plans to become politician.
15. AFP: Stalin police criticism sparks anti-Semitism row in Russia.
16. Moscow News: Mark Galeotti, Cop comparisons. Moscow is getting safer, but it’s too soon to be offering the NYPD lessons.
17. RFE/RL: In Russia, Commemorative Plaque To Be Restored Amid Brezhnev Nostalgia.
18. Moscow Times: Marcus Grant, How to Reduce Harmful Drinking.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Sochi 2014: World’s most expensive Olympics. Russia is set to spend over $51 billion on the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
20. Moscow News: Ibsen at the Mayakovka: don’t drink the water.
21. Moscow Times: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin.
22. Wall Street Journal: A Step Ahead of Its Time. (re Diaghilev exhibit)
23. Reuters: A century on, Stravinsky’s “Rite” still summons the caveman.
24. RIA Novosti: Natalia Antonova, No Country for ICU Patients.
25. Russia! Magazine: Tom Peeping, Why Russians Are the Scariest White People.

ECONOMY

26. Interfax: Russian GDP growth accelerates to 2.6% in April, economy grows 1.8% in 4M – Klepach.
27. Dow Jones: Russia Economy Fails to Gain Momentum in Second Quarter of 2013.
28. Interfax: Business community prepared to revise proposal on amnesty for entrepreneurs – Vekselberg.
29. ITAR-TASS: Amnesty for economic crimes – authorities for, people against.
30. Business New Europe: Alfa Bank, Government to postpone implementation of privatization plan.
31. RIA Novosti: Russia Changes Stance on Renewable Energy ­- Medvedev.
32. www.russiatoday.com: While European banking is suffering a ‘deposit exodus’, Russians seem to become increasingly comfortable about bringing their money to the country’s lenders.
33. RIA Novosti: Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador’s Notebook: Moscow as an International Financial Center.
34. Reuters: Russian gas pipeline could doom Europe’s Nabucco plan.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

35. Reuters: Lavrov says convening Syria conference “a tall order”
36. www.russiatoday.com: Russia slams end of EU arms embargo, calls S-300s ‘stabilizing factor’ in Syria.
37. Valdai Discussion Club: Grigory Kosach, Syria crisis: On the road to Geneva-2.
38. Atlantic-Community.org: NATO and Russia: Relationship Must be Redefined.
39. RIA Novosti: Russia Calls For Multilateral Nuclear Cuts.
40. Kommersant: Summer Seen Decisive for RF-US Missile-Defense Dialogue.
41. Moscow Times: Daryl Kimball, How to Break the Deadlock on Missile Defense.
42. Deutsche Welle: Why Russia stays loyal to Iran despite tensions.
43. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The CSTO states are preparing for the withdrawal of the NATO contingent from Afghanistan.
44. Civil Georgia: Q&A with Outgoing Head of EU Monitoring Mission.
45. Russia! Magazine: Mark Adomanis, Barack Obama, the Good Tsar.

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