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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#82 :: 1 May 2013
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POLITICS

1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia’s May holidays bring a week-long weekend.
2. RIA Novosti: Unions, Bloggers, Lonely Girls Rally in Russia on Labor Day.
3. Moscow TImes: 90,000 Rally to Support Putin on May Day.
4. BBC: Russia seeks new generation of ‘heroes’
5. Reuters: Russia’s Putin restores Stalin-era labor award.
6. Kommersant: Social Media Study Identifies Most Popular Themes in Russian President’s Call-in.
7. BBC Monitoring: Russian cabinet has responded well to Kremlin instructions – senior minister. (Surkov)
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses Putin’s Q and A, police, death penalty.
9. Polit.ru: Russian Economist Gontmakher Discusses Putin Phone-In and ‘Critical’ Economic Situation.
10. www.opendemocracy.net: Dmitri Travin, How the cookie crumbles. (re corruption)
11. Slon.ru: Stanislav Belkovskiy Advises Medvedev to Sit out Current Spate of ‘Humiliations’
12. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Commentary Views Rivalry Between Opposition Groups Over May Demonstrations.
13. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Pollsters, Analysts Ponder Reasons for Radical Opposition Leaders’ Declining Popularity.
14. Novaya Gazeta: Liberal Newspaper Columnist Urges Russian Opposition to Take Moral High Ground. (Semen Novoprudskiy)
15. Psul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin Regime Transforming Apolitical Activists into Its Opponents, Moscow Commentator Says. (Mariya Ponomaryeva)
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Will NGOs and Kremlin find a compromise amid inspections?
17. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, In Early 2013, Russia’s Demographics Are Showing Ominous Signs Of Worsening.
18. Moscow Times: Laboring in Sochi No Slice of Heaven.
19. Interfax: Putin orders govt. to consider restoration of contemporary Western art museum.
20. Reuters: Russia’s new Mariinsky theatre divides St Petersburg.
21. Moscow News: Beatlemania behind the Iron Curtain.
22. The Nation: Sophie Pinkham, Oligarchs and Graphomaniacs. No one dies for poetry anymore, not even in Russia. Enter the oligarchs, who steer clear of Putin’s ire by sponsoring literary prizes.

TSARNAEV

23. Reuters: Tsarnaev homeland Chechnya: rebuilt from war, ruled by fear.
24. National Public Radio (NPR): Investigating The Boston Bombing … In Southern Russia.
25. National Consortium on Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism: Gordon Hahn, Discussion Point: From the Caucasus to Boston and Beyond.

ECONOMY

26. Interfax: Pouring govt money into economy more likely to fuel inflation than production – Kudrin.
27. Bloomberg: Russia’s 20 Biggest Billionaires Keep Riches From Putin.
28. Wall Street Journal: In Reversal, Neighbors Squeeze Russia’s Gazprom Over Natural-Gas Prices.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

29. Interfax: Postponement of 4th stage of U.S. missile defense increases chances of agreement with Russia – official.
30. PONARS Eurasia: Pavel Baev, Not Everything Is Wrong with Russia’s Syria Strategy.
31. Interfax: Georgian law enforcement services trained militants for operations in Russia – ombudsman.
32. New York Times: Jailed Official in Ukraine Gets Decision in Her Favor. (Yulia Tymoshenko)

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