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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#158
31 August 2012
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POLITICS

1. Reuters: Alissa de Carbonnel, INSIGHT-Brutality, anger fuel jihad in Russia’s Caucasus.
2. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Aug. 31, 2012.
3. Moscow Times: Education Reform Inching Forward.
4. ITAR-TASS: All-Russia People’s Front distancing itself from United Russia party.
5. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The opposition makes public the unmasking information about the incomes of deputies in the ruling party.
6. The Economist: Putin’s perks. Nice work.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Ogoniok: Mapping Russia’s religious landscape. For the first time, Russian sociologists have compiled an atlas of Russia’s religions. Given the current debate on relations between the church, state and society, this atlas offers a timely and valuable look into the nature of Russian worship.
8. Kommersant: Vladislav Surkov to Chair Commission on Religious Associations.
9. RIA Novosti: Vitaly Milonov: Laying Down God’s Law in Russia.
10. RFE/RL: Plight Of Blogger, Pussy Riot Highlight Church’s Political Ambitions.
11. The Economist: Russia and Islam. The end of peaceful coexistence? Until recently traditional Muslims and Salafists lived harmoniously side-by-side in Tatarstan. No longer.
12. Svobodnaya Pressa: Intensifying Religious Animosity in Dagestan Anticipated.
13. ITAR-TASS: Opposition plans to organize March of Millions in Moscow on September 15.
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Moscow to get two Speakers’ Corners. A bid to create Moscow’s Hyde Park becomes reality as Gorky and Sokolniki parks are designated free speech zones.
15. Politkom.ru: Forthcoming Khimki Mayoral Election’s Importance Analyzed. (Aleksey Makarkin)
16. Interfax: Former Kremlin Strategist Sees Pussy Riot Poll As Evidence Of Split In Society. (Gleb Pavlovskiy)
17. Reuters: Russian killer wrote Pussy Riot on wall to mislead police.
18. http://fitzhenrymac.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/pussy-riot: Pussy Riot Videos.
19. http://mercouris.wordpress.com: Alexander Mercouris, PUSSY RIOT ­ AFTER THE JUDGMENT.

ECONOMY

20. Gazeta.ru: Moody’s Downgrades G20 Growth Forecast for 2012.
21. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: Russian Authorities ‘Lax’ In Taking Measures Against Looming Crisis.
22. Moscow Times: Russian Consumers Determined to Cut Spending.
23. Interfax: Analysts Welcome Shtokman Project Delay.
24. Financial Times: Abramovich/Berezovsky: Russia the loser.
25. Moscow Times: Q&A: Getting the Most Out of Oligarchs and the West . (re Stuart Lawson)
26. Moscow Times: Gerard Wynn, Arctic Melt Will Prompt Energy Rush.
27. Financial Times: Oleg Deripaska, Russia must wake the sleeping Siberian tiger.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

28. Valdai Discussion Club: Gleb Ivashentsov, Russia’s strategic aims in the Asia-Pacific Region.
29. RIA Novosti: Romney Talks Tough on Russia in Acceptance Speech.
30. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Romney’s victory is a present to the hawks.
31. New York Times: Matthew A. Rojansky and Nikolas Gvosdev, The U.S. Should Still Talk to Russia.
32. RIA Novosti: Russian NGOs ‘Not U.S. Agents’ – Clinton.
33. Interfax: U.S. embassy in Russia reports reduction of visa fees.
34. Moscow Times: Russian Teens Find Surprises in U.S. Schools.

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