JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List 2013-#59 – 1 April 2013 (updated with links)
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#59 :: 1 April 2013
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POLITICS
1. New York Times: Russians Selectively Blocking Internet.
2. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Medvedev Redefines Conservatism in Speech to United Russia.
3. The Voice of Russia: Medvedev’s Press Secretary Gives Wide-Ranging Interview.
4. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Apr. 1, 2013.
5. Moscow Times: Vice Presidential Post Mulled to Ensure Power Transition.
6. Interfax: Putin’s income declaration to be published in mid-April – spokesman.
7. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV talk show discusses possibility of State Duma dissolution.
8. Moscow Times: Putin Borrows From Soviet Union on Social Justice.
9. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Leading the Opposition With the People’s Front.
10. Moscow Times: Litmus Test Election Reveals Flaws.
11. AP: Russia’s top cop sets sights on protest movement.
12. Interfax: Ombudsman concerned about rights violations in regional Russia
13. ITAR-TASS: Investigators to bring new charges in Bolotnaya Sqaure case
14. Moscow Times: Victor Davidoff, The Hunt for Foreign Agents Has Begun.
15. New York Times: Masha Gessen, Repression in Russia, in Black and White.
16. RFE/RL: Russia’s ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Marks 20th Anniversary.
17. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Mikhail Gorbachev proposes launching new perestroika.
18. www.russiatoday.com: ‘One Perestroika was enough’ - Russian politicians downplay Gorbachev’s reform plea.
19. ITAR-TASS; Aide says Kremlin will unlikely make public Berezovsky’s letter to Putin.
20. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Berezovsky’s Last Confession.
21. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, ‘Stalin knew’: why NGO work is important.
22. Moscow News: Stalin’s secret kill lists.
ECONOMY
23. Bloomberg: Russia Won’t Bail Out Cyprus Savers Facing Deposit Losses.
24. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexander Kondakov, Difficulty of doing business in Russia: First-person perspectives.
25. Financial Times: Russia gears up for shale boom.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
26. AP: US-Russia differences in eyes of ex-ambassadors.
27. Reuters: NATO eyes missile shield progress with Russia after U.S. move.
28. International Herald Tribune: Steven Pifer, Will Russia Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer?
29. Interfax: Coalition force in Afghanistan has not carried out its tasks – Russian ambassador.
30. Interfax-AVN: DPRK cannot pose any actual threat to U.S. in absence of ICBM or nuclear warheads – expert.
31. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Tensions on the Korean peninsula bring Russia and China closer.
32. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia’s weapons contract with Iraq to be fulfilled.
LONG ITEM