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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#36 :: 21 February 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Irina Ratushinskaya, What to Do If Something Explodes in Russia.
2. Izvestia: Rogozin Warns Prime Minister of Asteroid Threat.
3. Interfax: Situation with orphans in Russia is more important than debate on foreign adoptions – Putin.
4. Interfax: Russians support Putin, not happy with State Duma – poll.
5. Washington Post: Russia tries to improve life expectancy with laws curbing drinking, smoking.
6. OSC [US Open Source Center] Analysis: Lapse in Airtime Targets Suggests Effort to Improve Putin’s Image.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Could the Russian monarchy return? While the House of Romanov is celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2013 Grand Duchess Maria Romanova, its head, spoke with Russia Beyond the Headlines about her position and what role her family could play in modern Russia.
8. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Stanislav Belkovskiy, Pope Shows Patriarch Way. Program of Russian Church Reform: Brief and to Point.
9. RIA Novosti: Duma Requests Extremism Probe into Church Reform Article. (re Belkovsky)
10. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Feb. 21, 2013.
11. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Mikhail Rostovskiy, Second after Putin: Igor Sechin as Secret Vice-President.
12. Interfax: Anti-corruption action in Russia increasingly ineffective – prosecutor general.
13. Interfax: Damage from corruption in Russia exceeded 20 billion rubles in 2012 – Chaika.
14. Interfax: Nearly 90% of Russians support ban on foreign bank accounts of officials – poll.
15. www.foreignpolicy.com: Anna Nemstova, Putin Declares War on Sleaze. Vladimir Putin is vowing to make a dent in the eternal Russian problem of corruption. Skepticism is warranted.
16. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Richard Arnold, The interior ministry attempts to professionalize and reform the Russian police.
17. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Nationality Policy Won’t Work as He Intends.
18. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses media freedom, Communist Party, meteors.
19. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Gregoey Gilderman, Death by Indifference: AIDS and Heroin Addiction in Russia.
20. Der Speigel: Manipulating Pussy Riot. Letters Show Division in Punk Group.

ECONOMY

21. Moscow TImes: IMF More Upbeat Than Medvedev on GDP Growth.
22. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Sergei Guriev and Oleg Tsyvinsky, Clock Is Ticking on Putin’s Economic Pledges.
23. Reuters: Radical economist emerges as leading Russian central bank contender. (Sergei Glazyev)
24. Financial Times: Russia’s missing billions revealed.
25. Reuters: Russia needs financial police to combat illegal capital flight.
26. Moscow Times: Lucio Vinhas de Souza, Euro Area Is Russia’s Best Strategic Partner.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: G20 tests Russia’s influence.
28. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Gazprom Isn’t Being Run By Evil Geniuses, It’s Being Run By The Keystone Cops.
29. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Vedomosti: Vladislav Inozemtsev, No need to direct Siberia’s development from Moscow. Siberia will get back on its own feet, if the federal government will just leave it alone.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

30. New York Times: New Chinese Leader to Make Moscow His First Visit.
31. New York Times: Vows of Change in China Belie Private Warning.
32. www.russiatoday.com: ‘Broken phone’ fixed, Lavrov and Kerry to meet next week.
33. Interfax: It’s too early to speak about cause of Maxim Kuzmin’s death – U.S. consul.
34. Moscow Times: Ulyanovsk Hub Not Getting Much Use by NATO .
35. Washington Post: David Ignatius, Wooing Russia ­- and its influence.
36. The Heritage Foundation: Ariel Cohen, U.S. Policy on Russia for Obama’s Second Term.
37. Eurasia Analyst: Susan Cavan, The Bases of Russian Foreign Policy, Part Three: Why?