Johnson’s Russia List with links :: 2014-#34 :: Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#34 :: 18 February 2014
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POLITICS

1. R-Sport: Russia Struggles Past Norway to Make Olympic Hockey Quarterfinals.
2. ITAR-TASS: Fast food conquers Russia, brings obesity.
3. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Three Statistics with Long Shadows for Russia.
4. Washington Post: Timothy Frye, The culture of corruption: Russians pay, but they don’t like it.
5. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, Feb. 18, 2014.
6. ITAR-TASS: Vladimir Lukin steps down as Russia’s human rights ombudsman.
7. New York Times book review: A Nation Perpetually Under a Thumb. ‘Russians,’ by Gregory Feifer, Portrays the Putin Era.
8. RIA Novosti: Russians Split on Military Draft – Survey.
9. Moscow Times: Rossiya Segodnya Head Given Presidential Award. (Dmitry Kiselyov)
10. RIA Novosti: Veteran Director of Liberal Russian Radio Station Ousted.
11. RIA Novosti: In Olympic Sochi, Stalin’s Sanatoria All But Forgotten.
12. Moscow Times: Sergei Markov, Putin Scores Gold With Sochi Miracle.
13. New York Times: A Troubled Winter Olympics? We’ve Seen This Before.
14. Moscow Times: For Visitors and Residents, Olympics One Big Party.
15. Wall Street Journal: Sochi Olympics Official: We Realized Hotel Problems ‘Too Late.’ First Public Explanation for Rocky Launch of 2014 Games; ‘Red Alert’ Sounded.
16. Washington Post: Outside the Olympics, pressure on gay Russians grows.
17. US-Russia.org: Edward Lozansky, Pravda on the Potomac and Elsewhere.
18. www.russiatoday.com: Two former Pussy Riot members briefly detained in Sochi, questioned over hotel theft.

ECONOMY

19. ITAR-TASS: Opinion: Next world economic recession to happen in 2018-2019. (Andrei Klepach)
20. Reuters: Russian central bank trims medium-term outlook, warns on rouble.
21. Moscow Times: Banks Scramble for Clients as Mortgage Lending Takes Off.
22. ITAR-TASS: Russian government tightens control over GMOs.
23. Wall Street Journal: China and Russia at the Altar of Gas.
24. Financial Times: To Russia with love: Obama’s big energy lever. The US energy windfall will enable Washington to loosen Moscow’s grip on its neighbours.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

25. Valdai Discussion Club: Andrew Monaghan, Russia and the G8: Increased Prominence in International Affairs.
26. ITAR-TASS: Lavrov: Russia favors sincere, fair talks with EU over Eastern Partnership.
27. New York Times: U.S. Scolds Russia as It Weighs Options on Syrian War.
28. www.russiatoday.com: US & Russia swap recriminations as Syria peace talks stagnate.
29. Washington Post: Russian TV program links United States to treason at home.
30. Wall Street Journal: John Vinocur, Germany, Putin and the West. Schröder has a prescription for masking Moscow’s refusal to let Ukraine (or anyone else) leave Russia’s control.
31. Reuters: Protesters battle police in Kiev after Russia renews aid.
32. Bloomberg: Ukraine Forces to ‘Restore Order’ If Evening Deadline Isn’t Met.
33. ITAR-TASS: Extremists might provoke state of emergency in Kiev – expert.
34. www.russiatoday.com: Fresh riots in Kiev, violent clashes, tires burn downtown (PHOTOS, VIDEO).
35. www.russiatoday.com: Russia accuses US diplomats of ‘puppeteering’ Ukraine.
36. Business New Europe: Tim Ash: Opposition leave occupied buildings, tensions reduced.
37. Moscow Times: $2 Billion in Russian Aid Fails to Help Ukrainian Currency.
38. Business New Europe: Russia to Ukraine’s rescue with $2bn bailout bond purchase.
39. Moscow Times: Harun Yahya, In Ukraine, a Policy of Compromise Is the Key.
40. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Illusion of Ukrainian Separatism.
41. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, Cognitive Dissonance in Russian Politics.
42. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Moscow Faces Five Growing Obstacles to Integrating Post-Soviet Space, MGIMO Professor Says. (Sergey Moninp)
43. Reuters: After 20 years, Russia and Estonia sign border treaty.
44. Moscow Times: Jeffrey Mankoff, Japan-Russia Ties: An Opportunity for the U.S.
45. Bloomberg: Russia Mends Georgian Ties as Sochi Heals Beijing Wounds.
46. New York Times: Former Prime Minister of Georgia Convicted of Corruption.