JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List 2013-#83 – 2 May 2013
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#82 :: 1 May 2013
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POLITICS
1. RIA Novosti: Russian Deputy PM Denies Stagnation, Defends Putin’s Third Term.
2. Moscow Times: Surkov Says Kremlin Beat the Opposition.
3. RIA Novosti: Russian Political System ‘Steady’, Not ‘Broken’ By Protests – Deputy PM.
4. ITAR-TASS: Ruling United Russia needs competition – Vladislav Surkov.
5. The Voice of Russia: Russia should focus on innovation – Surkov.
6. RIA Novosti: Russian Deputy PM Lends Support To Social Networking Site.
7. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Russian Editorial on Poll Rating Cabinet Sees Government as ‘Shock Absorber’ for Public Discontent.
8. Slon.ru: Russian Analysts Mull Government Failure to Fulfill Putin’s May 2012 Edicts.
9. Gazeta.ru: Public Resistance to ‘Foreign Agents’ Law Said Proving It Is Not 1937.
10. Polit.ru: Prosecutor’s Office Investigations of Levada Center Viewed as ‘Selective Punishment’
11. Interfax: Moscow’s ‘Hyde Park’ speakers’ corner hosts non-political rallies on first day.
12. Bloomberg: Boston Bomb Trail Leads Into Heart of Putin’s Own War on Terror.
13. Interfax: Govt to mull bill naming places where religious services can be conducted without notification.
14. ITAR-TASS: Yeltsin Library offers new documents on Christianisation of Kievan Rus’
15. New York Times: The Newest Russia House. (Mariinsky II theater)
ECONOMY
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Alexei Kudrin, How to develop a thorough approach to changing economic policy.
17. Vedomosti: Russian Daily Contrasts Government Reports, Economic Reality.
18. Cato Institute: Andrei Illarionov, Industrial Catastrophe in Post-Soviet Russia.
19. ITAR-TASS: Russia remains in US IPR “priority watch list”
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
20. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Dictatorship and Double Standards: Bahrain Is More Repressive Than Russia, But Reading the Washington Post You’d Never Know That.
21. Foreign Policy: Susan Glasser, Minister No. Sergei Lavrov and the blunt logic of Russian power.
22. The Spectator (UK): Mary Dejevsky, Why Russia’s diplomats should learn swimming-pool etiquette. In foreign policy, Russia thrashes about like a badly socialised swimmer.
23. Interfax: Senior official reaffirms Russia’s stance on US missile shield.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Boston bombings revealed lack of Russian ‘soft power’ in America.
25. RIA Global: ‘Aliens’ Messed with US, Soviet Nukes - US Airmen.
26. ITAR-TASS: UFOs delight tourbiz CFOs.
27. Asia Times: M K Bhadrakumar, Moscow reserved on rare Japanese visitor.
28. Russia & India Report/Kommersant: NATO keen to learn from the Soviet experience in Afghanistan.
29. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV reports on alleged jihadist opposition fighters in Syria.
30. RIA Novosti: US Backs Georgia’s NATO, EU Ambitions - Kerry.
31. Interfax: Georgian authorities might have helped Chechen militants – ex-security minister.
32. RIA Novosti: Georgia Confirms No Olympic Boycott.
LONG ITEM
33. Kremlin.ru: Direct Line with Vladimir Putin. (transcript continued)