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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#229
28 December 2012
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POLITICS
1. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexander Rahr, Results of 2012: Emergence of a middle class in Russia.
2. Moscow Times: Roland Oliphant, History Repeated Itself as Farce in 2012.
3. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russians are Disturbed by Their Increasing Diversity, Sociologist Says.
4. ITAR-TASS: Less than 4% of fines imposed for bribe taking are paid.
5. www.opendemocracy.net: Daniil Kotsyubinsky, Russia’s 2013: Macbeth, or the Comedy of Errors?
6. Sky News: Russia: Drivers Find Love In Traffic Jams.
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring. What the Papers Say, Dec. 28, 2012.
8. Moscow Times: Putin Implores Cabinet to Act.
9. Moscow Times: Russian Government Officials to Commute by Helicopter in 2013.
10. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: NEW YEARS HOLIDAYS WILL END UP WITH A RALLY. Today the organizing committee of the opposition will file an application for a rally on January 13.
11. Moscow TImes/Vedomosti: Kremlin Shoots Itself in the Foot Again. (re Magnitsky)
12. New York Times: Russian Acquittal Escalates Human Rights Feud With U.S.
13. ITAR-TASS: Court acquits former deputy chief of Butyrka detention centre in Magnitsky death case.
14. Moscow Times: John Freedman, Magnitsky Play at Teatr.doc Hits Harder Than Ever.
15. Moscow News: Russian NGO head could lose job over new law. (Ludmila Alexeyeva)
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Authorities plan to ban individual protests.
17. ITAR-TASS: Proposal to ban foreigners from Russian TV channels is “strange & absurd” the director general of Public Television.
18. www.russiatoday.com: MPs seek limits to foreign education for children of officials.
19. Reuters: Russia’s ex-defence minister stonewalls fraud case questions.
20. Moscow Times: Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, The Kremlin Is All Ears. (re wiretapping)
21. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Nina Andreyeva Still Hasn’t Given Up Her Principles, But Others Have.
ECONOMY
22. The Voice of Russia: Does Russia’s winter break spell economic concern?
23. www.russiatoday.com: Russia’s manufacturing finishes 2012 on a weak footing.
24. Reuters: After setbacks, Russia boosts space spending.
25. The Guardian (UK): Howard Amos, Russia looks east to get more from its cross-border trade with China. The Kremlin sees Chinese border town booming while its Russian counterpart lags far behind.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
26. Interfax: Lavrov: Russia to oppose replacement of governments by foreign intervention. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks about the tasks facing the Foreign Ministry in 2013.
27. Reuters: Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children.
28. Interfax: Amendments might be made later to anti-Magnitsky Act law – Russian Justice Ministry.
29. www.russiatoday.com: Dima Yakovlev Law. RT provides the full text of the Russia’s reply to the US Magnitsky Act the Dima Yakovlev Law.
30. Bloomberg: Russian Ban on U.S. Adoptions Reflects Strained Relations.
31. RIA Novosti: US Adoptive Families Heartbroken Over Adoption Ban.
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian orphans in America: Three happy stories.
33. RFE/RL: U.S. Families Hope For Miracle As Russia Bans Adoptions.
34. Komsomolskaya Pravda: William Dunkerley, It’s Time for Putin and Obama to Have an Urgent Talk.
35. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Cultural ambassadors popularize Russia in D.C.
36. Valdai Discussion Club: Viktor Litovkin, Russia’s Strategic Missile Force Guarantees National Security.
37. US-Russia.org: Ringing Out the Old Year on a Lighter Note. Dmitry Mikheyev, How Relocating to Russia Can Heal One’s Fears and Neuroses.
OTHER RESOURCES
38. Human Rights Watch: FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY. RESEARCHER ON RUSSIA.
39. Call for Applications. 2013 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois.