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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#79 :: 26 April 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: In Marathon Show, Putin Pledges to Stay the Course.
2. ITAR-TASS: Vladimir Putin holds his eleventh on-line question-answer session on TV.
3. New York Times: For Nearly 5 Hours, a Showcase of Putin’s Fully Intact Confidence.
4. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Putin takes various questions during question and answer session.
5. Business New Europe: The King’s Speech.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Apr. 26, 2013.
7. Interfax: Less than quarter of Russians view govt’s performance as efficient – poll.
8. Interfax: Only 7% Russians have positive attitude to State Duma deputies – poll.
9. Interfax: Russian citizens mostly happy – FOM poll.
10. Osobaya Bukva: Attacks on Medvedev Not Seen as Weakening of Liberals in Office.
11. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Moscow Daily Sees Continuing NGO Checks Aimed at Exposing Kremlin ‘Critics’
12. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Golos association fined under NGO law.
13. ITAR-TASS: Court ruling regarding Golos is justified ­ Public Chamber members.
14. RIA Novosti: Ex-Privatization Supremo Evasive on Putin CIA Claim. (Chubais)
15. Moscow Times: Debate Rages Over State History Textbooks.
16. Interfax: Church-state partnership level is lower in Russia than in U.S., Europe – Patriarch.
17. Interfax: Russian human rights ombudsman urges measures to ensure “real transparency” of psychiatric clinics.
18. ITAR-TASS: Association of Internet Users established in Russia.

TSARNAEV

19. Wall Street Journal: Putin Plays Down Boston Bomber’s Ties to Russia.
20. The Nation: Thomas Goltz, Is There a Chechen Connection to the Boston Bombings?
21. Interfax: Tsarnaev did not contact Islamic radicals while visiting Dagestan in 2012 – official.
22. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Grozny residents pity the Tsarnayev brothers.
23. Moscow Times: Alexei Malashenko, After the Boston Tragedy.
24. New York Times: Parents Deny Sons’ Guilt and Accuse U.S. of Plot.
25. Russia!: Sean Guillory, Tsarnaev Conspiracy Theory Simulacrum.
26. Interfax: Kadyrov accuses West of protecting ‘good’ terrorists.
27. NBCnews.com: Robert Windrem, Chechnya conflict an incubator for Islamic militants around the world.
28. The Economist: Chechnya and Dagestan. Islamists in Russia. The Boston bombs have put new focus on Russia’s Islamist republics.

ECONOMY

29. www.russiatoday.com: Russia’s investment appeal 2nd lowest- report.
30. Moscow Times: Fraser Cameron and Maria Ordzhonikidze, The Myth of Dirty Russian Money.

LONG ITEM

31. Kremlin.ru: Direct Line with Vladimir Putin.

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