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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#224
19 December 1012
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Kudrin Lashes Out at Medvedev’s Cabinet.
2. ITAR-TASS: Struggle against corruption seems to be easing – analysts.
3. Vedomosti editorial: CORRUPTION IS ABOVE SUSPICION. SPECIAL OPERATION WAR ON CORRUPTION’2012 IS OVER.
4. Reuters: John Lloyd, In Russia, unheeded cries of corruption.
5. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Newtown shooting highlights Russia’s gun-control debate.
6. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russian TV Audience Increasingly Wants More than First Channel Offers.
7. RIA Novosti: Moscow’s Top Shrink Proposes Doomsday Censorship.
8. www.huffingtonpost.com: Pam Grout, Everything I Learned About Russia, I Learned In A Vodka Bottle.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Dec. 19, 2012.
10. Moscow Times: Bill Seeks to End Election of Governors.
11. Moscow Times: Deputies Threaten Harsh Measures Against U.S.-Linked NGOs.
12. Interfax: Russian human-rights NGOs ignore new rule to register as ‘foreign agents’
13. RIA Novosti: Russian Ex-FM Kudrin to Take Over USAID’s Job.
14. RIA Novosti: Russian Opposition Leaders Attend Student Protest.
15. Moscow Times: Georgy Bovt, Where the Opposition Stands One Year On.
16. ITAR-TASS: More Russians opt for alternative civil service.
17. New York TImes: Thomas Friedman, Pussy Riot, Tupac and Putin.
18. Lifenews.com: Will Russia Recover From Its Massive Underpopulation Problems?

ECONOMY

19. RIA Novosti: Central Banker Blames Capital Flight on Investment Climate.
20. www.russiatoday.com: Russia lost more than $150bn in illegal outflow.
21. Moscow News: Utilities to go up as industry on brink of catastrophe.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Maxim Oreshkin, Moscow to develop into a global financial centre.
23. Interfax: State support for Russian agriculture to double despite WTO rules – minister.
24. Financial Times: Russia’s New Economic School: a big birthday for pioneers on the 17th floor.
25. Moscow Times: Anders Aslund, Rise and Fall of Russia’s Economic Think Tanks.
26. Valdai Discussion Club: David Lane, Energy nationalism in Russia and in the West.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Yevgeny Shestakov, There’s neither Cold War nor warm peace. In 2012, Russia did not declare a cold war on the West and has no intention of doing so in the future. The proposed new Russian foreign policy concept speaks of applying confidence and co-operation on the basis of pragmatism with Moscow’s European partners. Yet developments over the past year have prompted fears in Russia that an undeclared cold war is already being waged.
28. Interfax: Poll shows improvement in Russians’ attitudes to Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus.
29. Interfax: Russia, EU discussing liberalization of economic ties, impact of Customs Union.
30. http://euobserver.com: Dan Steinbock, The Russia-EU-US drama.
31. Xinhua “Interview”: “Russia-U.S. Ties Move With Faltering Steps: Russian Expert.” (Alexander Khramchikhin)
32. RIA Novosti: USA Created ‘Mini Crisis’ In Relations With Russia With Magnitskiy Act – Kremlin.
33. Reuters: Russian parliament moves to ban U.S. adoptions.
34. RIA Novosti: Ban on US Adoptions Advances in Duma.
35. Moscow Times: Adoption Ban Faces Wave of Criticism.
36. www.russiatoday.com: Russian society split over bill set to ban US adoptions.
37. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: MAGNITSKY BILL AND REACTION TO IT. THE BAN TO THE AMERICANS TO ADOPT RUSSIAN CHILDREN WILL UNDERMINE WHATEVER RESPECT POLITICIANS RETAIN.
38. ITAR-TASS: Number of Russian children adopted by foreigners dropped by 64%.
39. ITAR-TASS: Russian language media reps in USA discuss journalism problems.
40. www.russiatoday.com: Clinton’s ‘Sovietization’ comment attracts Kremlin’s ire.
41. The Hill: Chuck Robb and Don Evans, Bringing Russia in from the cold.
42. US-Russia.org: Expert Discussion Panel. Will US-Russia Relations Begin a New Chapter in 2013? (with Vlad Sobell, Edward Lozansky, Mark Nuckols, Dale Herspring, Patrick Armstong, Vladimir Kozin, and Dmitry Mikheyev)
43. RIA Novosti: Syrian Militants Free to Target Russians ­ Opposition Leader.
44. New York Times: Russia Sends Warships Toward Syria for Possible Evacuation.
45. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Victor Yanukovich postpones his visit to Russia.
46. Kommersant: “IT IS UP TO RUSSIA NOW.” An interview with Georgian Deputy Premier Irakly Alasania.

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