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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#69 :: 15 April 2013
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POLITICS

1. ITAR-TASS: Putin’s press secretary says conflict between Putin’s and Medvedev’s teams is concoction.
2. Moscow Times: Putin Is ‘Master of Compromise,’ Spokesman Says.
3. Interfax: The Kremlin’s press secretary has no doubts about foreign funding of Russian NGOs.
4. ITAR-TASS: Putin hopes Medvedev will be able to win Duma support on further economic development.
5. Interfax: Putin, Medvedev agree to meet to discuss prospects of Russian economy amid world crisis.
6. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Alienation of Russian Nation from Russian State Led to 1917 and 1991, Moscow Historian Says. (Aleksandr Vdovin)
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Apr. 15, 2013.
8. Moscow Times: Officials’ Income Declarations Released.
9. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russian officials and MPs report their incomes.
10. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV talk show discusses bill to ban foreign bank accounts for officials.
11. Interfax: No conditions for Putin’s cooperation with irreconcilable opposition – Peskov.
12. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Putin’s Leadership Trap.
13. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV’s new political talk show links NGOs with US special services.
14. Moscow Times: Navalny’s Taunts Led to ‘Speedy’ Investigation.
15. In Moscow’s Shadows: Mark Galeotti, The Navalny Case and the Final Battle between Good and Neutrality?
16. Interfax: Putin’s cranes fail to reintegrate with the wild over diplomatic rifts – newspaper.
17. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Moscow Daily: Economically Depressed Stavropol Kray on Brink of ‘Large-Scale Interethnic Conflict’
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Moskovskie Novosti: Delving into Moscow’s cultural identity. Sergey Kapkov, head of the Moscow Department of Culture, told the students of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations about the cultural crisis in Russia, bicycle tourism in the Gorky park and about the difference between Moscow and St. Petersburg

ECONOMY

19. Interfax: Constant income growth cuts poverty in Russia thrice since 1990s – Medvedev.
20. Interfax: Russian Econ Ministry expects GDP growth to quicken to 2.1% in Q2.
21. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia not yet ready for the membership in the World Trade Organization.
22. Interfax: Russian Public Chamber wants more support of exports, agriculture in WTO.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Interfax: Russia reluctant to discuss currency wars, Cyprus crisis at next G20 session.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

24. Vedomosti: Sergei Karaganov, The Map of the World: Geopolitics Stages a Comeback.
25. The Diplomat: Scott Harold and Lowell Schwartz, A Russia-China Alliance Brewing? Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s recent summit drew wide international attention. Are we witnessing the dawn of a new alliance?
26. RIA Novosti: Moscow Says It Is Ready to Pick Up Positive Signals from US.
27. New York Times: Russia Bars 18 Americans After Sanctions by U.S.
28. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia responds to Magnitsky List.
29. BBC Monitoring: Pundits note US effort not to damage relations with Russia with Magnitskiy list.
30. Interfax: Most officials on U.S.’ Magnitsky list no longer serving in previous capacity.
31. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Battle of Lists ‘Caricature’ of the Cold War, Lukyanov Says.
32. ITAR-TASS: Russian state officials give harsh response to Magnitsky List, but experts not inclined to dramatise situation.
33. Moscow Times: David Kramer, The Magnitsky Act Needs to Be Strengthened.
34. www.russiatoday.com: Magnitsky Act the result of ‘know-nothing Congress and lack of leadership from White House’ (interview with Stephen Cohen)
35. BBC Monitoring: Popular TV talk show discusses Russia’s relations with the West.
36. RFE/RL: Interview: ‘Democratic Development Survives Bad Laws And Repression’. (interview with the National Endowment for Democracy’s Rodger Potocki)
37. Eurasia Review: Azad Garibov, Russia And Central Asia: Do All Central Asian Roads Still Lead To Russia?
38. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Mark Galeotti, Chechen ‘Jihadist International’ emerges in Syria. The result of the Syrian crisis is likely to affect Russia’s positions in the world and influence in the Middle East. At the same time, accounts of Chechens participating in the Syrian war increase the potential risks for Russia at home.
39. ITAR-TASS: No war in Korean Peninsula, but threat to peace remains – military, civil experts.
40. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Andrei Lankov, Hidden reforms in North Korea. In early April, North Korea’s top leadership was shaken up top military officers retired, civilian bureaucrats have taken over and a reform-minded premier has been reinstated. Korean historian Andrei Lankov argues that, while it is too soon to confidentially say North Korea is headed for a full-fledged, rational, market economy, the proposition is not implausible.