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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#66 :: 10 April 2013
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POLITICS

1. Interfax: Life expectancy in Moscow surpasses certain EU states – health dept.
2. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Commitment to ‘Stability above Everything’ Promises Anything But, Moscow Experts Say.
3. RIA Novosti: Corruption Should Carry Same Penalty as Treason – Watchdog.
4. www.opendemocracy.net: Pavel Usanov, Russian money laundering: how does it work?
5. Interfax: Russians more willing to exercise – poll.
6. Gazeta.ru: Presidential Staff’s Volodin, Educators Discuss Russian Political System Reform.
7. Kremlin.ru (Q&A only): Press statement and answers to journalists’ questions following Russian-Dutch talks.
8. Christian Science Monitor: Jeannie Ferber, Babushka’s gift. She was happy to be useful, with little time for unkind thoughts.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Apr. 10, 2013.
10. Moscow Times: Medvedev to Face Angry Duma Next Week.
11. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Dmitry Medvedev to report to the State Duma on the Cabinet’s work for the first time.
12. Moscow Times: Duma Approves ‘Blasphemy Bill’ in First Reading.
13. Interfax: Criminal penalty for hurt believer feelings unhelpful to Church – Communists.
14. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The association Golos is facing a fine and probably liquidation.
15. New York Times: Russia Takes Legal Action Against Election Monitors.
16. ITAR-TASS: Prosecutor-General explains reasons of NGO inspections to EU human rights commissioner.
17. BBC Monitoing: Russian MPs lash out at embattled election monitoring Golos NGO.
18. The New Times: Anticorruption Campaigner Navalnyy Comments on Upcoming Trial, Prospect of Prison.
19. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Coming clean. As Navalny’s trial looms, it’s time for a reality check.
20. Moscow Times: Georgy Bovt, Why Navalny Will Be Jailed.
21. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Zhukovsky’s Grassroots Revolution.
22. Reuters: Russia’s Orthodox leader says feminism is very dangerous.
23. RIA Novosti: Duma Approves Bill Banning Abortion Ads.
24. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: The Kind of Russian Nationalism Putin Needs and the Kind He Doesn’t.

ECONOMY

25. Bloomberg: Putin’s Central Bank Pick Avoids Kuroda-Style Revolution.
26. Moscow Times: Martin Gilman, Like It or Not, Russia Is a Global Financial Power.
27. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, Not All Offshore Account Holders Are Crooks
28. Interfax: Russia mulling options for European gas strategy, Nord Stream pipeline.
29. Asia Times: Igor Alexeev, Gazprom outflanks Nabucco.
30. RIA Novosti: Russia Seeks China Resources Investment – Shuvalov.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

31. Interfax: Russians less favorable to U.S., EU, Ukraine, Belarus, more to Georgia – poll.
32. Moscow Times: Russia Seen as Powerless to Influence Pyongyang.
33. Interfax: Lavrov accuses N. Korea of blatantly violating UN Security Council resolutions.
34. RIA Novosti: Fyodor Lukyanov, The Dangers of the Korean Crisis.
35. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The Iranian dossier: Negotiations edge forward. The negotiations on the Iranian nuclear issue in Kazakhstan allowed sides to discuss specific mutual demands in an earnest exchange of opinions.
36. Valdai Discussion Club: Jack Matlock, Alexander Bessmertnykh, Vladimir Lukin, Sergei Rogov, and James Collins, The most fundamental interests of both the United States and Russia are compatible.
37. The American Interest: Thomas Graham, In Defense of a Strategic Approach to Russia.
38. The American Interest: Lilia Shevtsova, A Realist’s Response to an Idealist.
39. Bloomberg: Georgian Premier Seeks to Probe Saakashvili Over 2008 Russia War.
40. BBC Monitoring: Georgian PM backs investigation into 2008 war with Russia.
41. Reuters: Analysis – Ukraine president flexes but will resist EU over jailed rival.

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