Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#18 :: Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#18 :: 28 January 2013
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POLITICS
1. Moscow Times: Ukraine Unrest Spreading to Russia? Unlikely.
2. ITAR-TASS: Nothing like Ukrainian protests looms on Russia’s horizon – experts.
3. Interfax: Russians not ready to sacrifice their rights for sake of state interests – poll.
4. Financial Times: Europe’s fear of Russia is a rerun of Soviet mistakes. Eurasian union should not be perceived as a threat, writes Igor Shuvalov.
5. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, Jan. 28.
6. Kremlin.ru: Excerpts from transcript of meeting with National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) students.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia seeks to further decrease abortion rates. The Ministry of Health will set up crisis pregnancy centers in an attempt to decrease the number of abortions each year.
8. Moscow Times: Andrei Malgin, Medvedev’s Winter Palace.
9. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia goes for Olympic gold.
10. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Top Kremlin critic takes aim at Sochi Olympics corruption. Alexei Navalny, the perpetual thorn in the Kremlin side, wants to know exactly what happened to the $50 billion that Vladimir Putin dropped on Sochi.
11. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Sochi Olympics Are Corrupt But They’re Not ‘Akin’ To Stalinism.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: VIP turnout at Sochi: Trouble, but not a tragedy.
13. Interfax: Security level of daily life in Sochi totally in line with global standards – official.
14. Moscow Times: ‘Reconstruction’ Brings ’90s Back to Russian Art.
ECONOMY
15. ITAR-TASS: New 2014 year brings new economic risks. Russian Press Review.
16. ITAR-TASS: Russian Finance Ministry has developed de-offshorization plan of country’s economy. Russian Press Review.
17. RIA Novosti: Ruble Is Not Weak: Dollar and Euro Are Strong – Central Bank.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Russia seeks lead in BRICS for foreign investment.
19. Wall Street Journal: Russia Unaware of EU Plans to Complain to WTO. Moscow Is Preparing Its Own Complaint About EU’s Energy Package.
20. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Pavel Baev, Davos Discussions Disprove Russia’s Resurgence.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
21. Valdai Discussion Club/Moskovsky Komsomolets: Vladislav Inozemstsev, Fickle Friends: Whom Will Russia Side With in the Upcoming Global Confrontation?
22. Reuters: EU meets Russia for ‘clear the air’ talks with Putin.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Rustem Falyakhov, Russia and EU face a tough summit. Relations between Moscow and Brussels have hit a dead-end. Issues such as visa-free travel and gas contracts will top the agenda at this week’s summit.
24. Interfax: Russia, NATO ready to search for solutions to European missile defense problem.
25. New York Times: From Warheads to Cheap Energy. Thomas L. Neff’s Idea Turned Russian Warheads Into American Electricity.
26. Reuters: Ukraine PM tenders resignation, parliament revokes anti-protest laws.
27. Interfax: Top Russian diplomat says current violence in Ukraine “unacceptable”
28. AP: Nationalist western Ukraine is an engine supporting the anti-government protests in Kiev.
29. ITAR-TASS: Demonstrators in Crimea blast Ukraine’s west for banning political parties.
30. Wall Street Journal: Poor Economy Contributes to Ukrainian Anger.
31. Reuters: Ukraine’s economy cushioned so far against unrest, needs boost: central bank.
32. Moscow Times: Yevgeny Kiselyov, Why Yanukovych Is Scared.
33. Business New Europe: Yanukovych’s “family business” links him to Russia.
34. Stratfor.com: George Friedman, Perspectives on the Ukrainian Protests.
35. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, The Ukrainian Revolution.
36. Wall Street Journal: Mikheil Saakashvili, Why the West Must Join the Ukraine Protesters. What the Ukraine protests are really about: Western freedom vs. Putin’s vision of a restored Russian empire.
7. Registan: Sarah Kendzior Says What We Have All Been Afraid to Say. “Central Asian studies is a dying field”
