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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#84 :: 3 May 2013
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POLITICS
1. AFP: UN Sounds Alarm Over Record Arctic Ice Melt.
2. www.russiatoday.com: Russian Labor Day: Rallies, ridicule and revelry as tens of thousands take part.
3. AFP: Year into new term, Putin clamps down on dissent in Russia.
4. AFP: Probe into anti-Putin rally haunts Russia one year on.
5. Polit.ru: Moscow Website Queries Level of Issues Raised by Callers to Putin April 25 Phone-in.
6. Russia! Magazine: Sean Guillory, Surveying Putin 2.0.
7. Novaya Gazeta: Russia Seen Hitting Bottom Just After Putin. (Vladimir Pastukhov)
8. Osobaya Bukva: Website Profiles Presidential Press Secretary Peskov as Putin’s ‘Dark Side’
9. Izvestia: ‘Pro-Kremlin’ Experts’ Report Seen Stressing Governors’ Reliance on Kremlin’s Election Support.
10. www.opendemocracy.net: Anna Sevortian, The government inspectors. Gogol’s government inspector was a figure of fun. Russia’s new government inspectors are anything but funny.
11. Interfax: May 5 protest action is aimed as provocation.
12. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, Putin’s Lost Children.
13. RIA Novosti: Russia Founders in 3 Media Freedom Ratings.
14. Moscow Times: Reporters Without Borders Calls Putin a Predator and Control Freak.
15. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Mairbek Vatchagaev, Why Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Outside of Chechen Mentality.
16. Washington Post: Russia’s orphans: Government takes custody of children when parents can’t cope.
17. Bloomberg: Putin Opens $700 Million New Mariinsky With Domingo Gala.
ECONOMY
18. www.russiatoday.com: Recession à la Russe.
19. Russia & India Report: How to stimulate the Russian economy. A policy meeting chaired by the president has decided to support the Russian economy by re-jigging spending priorities and issuing infrastructure bonds. Oil funds are to remain untapped even if stagnation looms.
20. Bloomberg: Russia’s April Oil Output Near Post-Soviet Record, Ministry Says.
21. Russia & India Report/Strana.ru: A behind the scenes tour to Russia’s oil projects. Visitors can learn the process of oil refinement theoretically and practically, dine with oilmen and even try to use a piece of machinery
22. www.opendemocracy.net: Marc Bennetts, Nickel and dimes. The fertile territories around Voronezh have long been referred to as Russia’s ‘breadbasket’. They also hold the last major nickel reserves in Europe, and the mining companies are about to move in…
23. Interfax: Lavrov: problems between Russia, EU over Third Energy Package ‘artificial’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
24. ITAR-TASS: Lavrov hopes talks with Kerry will be useful.
25. The National Interest: Matthew Rojansky, Fixing Russia Cooperation After Boston.
26. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Pavel Felgenhauer, The Uphill Job of Mending Fences with the Kremlin.
27. John Evans: Jackson Diehl on Extremists.
28. The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University: Elliot Borenstein, Off-White like Dzhokhar.
29. The Atlantic: A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska.
30. Reuters: Georgia decides to compete at Olympics in Russia.
31. The Messenger (Georgia): Georgia stuck in the threshold of NATO’s doors.
LONG ITEM
32. Kremlin.ru: Direct Line with Vladimir Putin. (transcript conclusion)