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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#182 :: Friday, 11 October 2013

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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#182 ::11 October 2013 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: […]

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Putin’s Legal Vertical: Kremlin Seeks To Consolidate Court System

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Valdai Club 2013 Meeting, Adapted from Screenshot of Valdai Club Video at youtube.com

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Tom Balmforth – MOSCOW, October 9, 2013) Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court is widely viewed as the country’s most impartial court. But it might not be for much longer. The Kremlin this week submitted legislation to the State Duma that would essentially abolish the body, which resolves economic disputes, by merging it with the Supreme Court. The […]

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Deciphering the Kremlin: Reading the Runes of Russian Officialdom

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and Moscow Environs Aerial View

(RIA Novosti – Konstantin von Eggert – October 9, 2013) For the past decade Russian politics has been all about ‘signals’ from on high. In the absence of mature democratic institutions like parliament, independent courts and (with rare exceptions) truly independent media, what leaders say, especially the president, take on an almost-sacred meaning. When 10 years ago, at the beginning […]

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Human rights council will ask prosecutor general to drop piracy charge against Arctic Sunrise crew – Fedotov

Arctic, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Environment, Human Rights, International Law, Oil, Gas, Energy, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Polar Map Showing Permafrost Areas, Adapted From NOAA.gov Graphic

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 10, 2013) The piracy charges, based on which the crew of the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise was arrested, are ungrounded and should be reconsidered, Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the presidential human rights council, said. “I hope this decision will be reconsidered. In any case, we will turn to the prosecutor general. He has potential for […]

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How (Not) to Shake Hands in Russia

Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
File Photo of Crowd of Russians with One Waving Russian Flag

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Andy Frecka – October 10, 2013) You’re all ready for your trip to Russia. You know how to say “hello” and “thank you” and you’ve even brushed up your knowledge of Russian history. But that won’t be e nough. Statistics show that 107% of all communication is non-verbal. So clearly, you need to give your […]

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Economy Faces Stagnation Unless Productivity Increases

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
File Photo of Cash, Coins, Line Graph

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Lena Smirnova – October 10, 2013) The Russian economy will stagnate if companies do not increase their labor productivity, which currently averages at 40 percent of that of the Fortune 500 Global companies, according to an annual ranking that Expert Rating Agency presented Wednesday. High prices for natural resources and cheap labor are no longer […]

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No hope for Russia’s hi-tech sector?

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Science, Technology, Engineering
File Image of Stylized Eye Surrounded by Binary Code

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Artem Zagorodnov, RBTH –  October 9, 2013) Most Russians do not believe in Russia’s future as a leading hi-tech exporter, a Debate Night this week at Moscow’s Technopolis revealed. The fact that Russia currently accounts for 26 percent of the world’s high-tech exports was no deterrent to this week’s Debate Night at Moscow’s […]

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Moscow says Russian, U.S. presidents to meet when time comes

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 9, 2013) Moscow expects that a meeting between the Russian and U.S. presidents will take place and will become another important stage in the development of bilateral relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “We do not need meetings just for the sake of having meetings. The Russian president has said this very clearly. We conduct intensive […]

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RIA Novosti: Russian Warheads Fuel Half of U.S. Nuclear Power – Official

Nuclear, Missile Defense, Oil, Gas, Energy, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Russian Nuclear Missile on Mobile Launcher Near Woods

(RIA Novosti – WASHINGTON, October 9, 2013) Decommissioned Russian warheads are fueling “approximately half of the nuclear energy in the United States,” a senior US State Department official said Wednesday. “Over the past 15 years, nuclear fuel from this source has accounted for approximately 10 percent of all electricity produced in the United States,” US Acting Under Secretary of State […]

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RIA Novosti: Snowden’s Father Says Russia Only Safe Place For Son

Spies, Spy Allegations, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Edward Snowden file photo

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, October 10, 2013) The father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he believes Russia, where he arrived on Thursday with the aim of meeting with his son, is the only country in which his fugitive son can feel safe. Lon Snowden told reporters on arrival at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport that he doubted his son would […]

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Moscow News: America’s Putin envy

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Moscow News – themoscownews.com – Anna Arutunyan, Editor andCcorrespondent at themoscownews.com – October 8, 2013) “I don’t like Putin, but I respect that guy. He is tough. He delivers what he says he’ll deliver. He presents himself as a real He-Man.” That wasn’t a congratulatory note to President Vladimir Putin on his birthday. That was Fox News. More specifically, it […]

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Ukraine Threatens to End Russian Gas Imports Over Prices

Oil, Gas, Energy, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
File Photo of Blue Flame from Natural Gas

(RIA Novosti – KIEV, October 10, 2013) ­ Ukraine may stop all natural gas imports from Russia within the next few years if the current gas contract is not reviewed, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Thursday. “Under the existing gas prices we have reduced and will continue to reduce [gas imports], and in the future ­ and this is not […]

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Azeri Presidential Election Shows the Power of Oil

Azerbaijan, South Caucasus, Oil, Gas, Energy
Map of Azerbaijan and South Caucasus Environs Including Portions of Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Iran, Caspian Sea

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – October 10, 2013) Ilham Aliyev was headed to win Wednesday’s presidential election in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, in what some analysts say is the perfect demonstration of how oil revenues can strengthen a country’s leader both domestically and internationally. During the decade that Aliyev ruled the country after succeeding his […]

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#181 :: Thursday, 10 October 2013

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[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#181 ::10 October 2013 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: […]

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Taking the U.S.-Russia framework seriously; Cooperation between the White House and Kremlin may even bear fruit.

Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons, ChemBio, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations, WMD Proliferation
Syria Map

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexander Gasyuk, Nora FitzGerald, special to RBTH, October 8, 20-13) There is a long journey ahead to audit and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons program, analysts agree, and there are many concerns and inevitable delays in the days and weeks ahead. Yet the international community is closer than it has ever been to eradicating […]

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Putin hails Russian-U.S. ‘mutual understanding’ on Syria

Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons, ChemBio, Syria, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Syria Map

(Interfax – October 8, 2013) Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the Syrian leadership’s response to the Russian-US proposal for eliminating the country’s chemical weapons, adding that he hoped this work would continue in the pace and spirit it had started in. He also expressed satisfaction with the position his US counterpart Barack Obama had taken on Syria. Putin was […]

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Russian President Says His Country Interested In Recovery Of U.S. Economy

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Cash, Coins, Line Graph

(RIA Novosti – Denpasar, Indonesia, October 8, 2013) The Russian Federation is interested in recovery of the US economy and hopes that, being caused by a domestic political situation, the issue will be solved as soon as possible, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, noting that this issue was not specifically discussed at the APEC summit. (Passage omitted: the US […]

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Russian Authors Face Long Odds for Nobel

Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
Alexander Solzhenitsyn file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Christopher Brennan – October 9, 2013) Russian literature is a serious business. The books are heavy, the beards are long and the descriptions of women’s upper lip hair are detailed. Russian authors from the 18th century onwards are read in classrooms from Tokyo to Buenos Aires and have been lauded the world over. Writers of […]

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Lawmaking in Russia: Tricks of the Trade

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Duma Session file photo

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexander Kolesnichenko, special to RBTH – October 7, 2013) The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the Duma, set a new record before the 2013 summer recess by passing as many as 261 new bills. Some of them have caused quite a stir, including the laws banning the propaganda of homosexuality, making it […]

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Shuvalov Criticizes ‘Low’ State Salaries

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Igor Shuvalov file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – September 9, 2013) First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov on Tuesday griped about proposed raises in government salaries, describing them as insufficient, adding to the unabated broadsides aimed at the federal budget plan for next year. His comments highlighted the tensions bred by a lower-than-expected increase in government spending. “The salaries that […]

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Killing Irony with Ivan the Terrible and an Orthodox Activist

History, Soviet Union, Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(RIA Novosti – Natalia Antonova, Acting Editor-in-Chief, The Moscow News, October 8, 2013) Ivan the Terrible lived a long time ago and the passage of time does distort historical figures ­ so that the truth is sometimes hard to separate from fiction. Still, it is probably safe to say that Ivan the Terrible was not a fan of pluralism and […]

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Domestic Adoptions Expected to Double

Children, Adoptions, Orphans
Russian Orphanage file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Natalya Krainova – October 8, 2013) Ten months after the government banned adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, authorities say the number of children adopted domestically will more than double by this year’s end amid increased state allowances. Thanks to a range of government measures, the number of adopted children in the country will […]

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Russian Federation Needs At Least Two Generations to Form a Common Identity, Malashenko Says

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Population Disaster, Demographics
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, October 9, 2013) It will take “at a minimum two generations” for the various identities in the Russian Federation to come together to form a united civic nation, a process that will be all the more prolonged because except in the major cities, the country does not have a civil society, according […]

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Pravda.ru: What Putin has done for Russia and world at 61

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Valdai Club 2013 Meeting, Adapted from Screenshot of Valdai Club Video at youtube.com

(Pravda.ru – Anton Ponomarev – October 8, 2013) Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 61st birthday on October 7th. Pravda.Ru talked to political scientists asking what actions of the Russian leader in the domestic and foreign policy during his tenure as President they find most successful. Head of Political Science Department of High School of Economics Leonid Polyakov: “I would […]

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Interfax: Russians think Putin became wiser, closer to people than before – poll

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Speaking At All-Russia Popular Front Gathering

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 7, 2013) Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently become more long-sighted and wiser (65%), more strong-willed (64%) and looks fresher and more energetic (63%), sociologists said citing a poll held. Respondents said that Putin awoke more interest in himself and his actions (57%) than before, the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) said presenting the survey […]

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RIA Novosti: Russian Nuclear Arms, Defence Spending To Rise 50-60 Per Cent Over Three Years

Military, Nuclear, Missile Defense
Russian Nuclear Submarine file photo

(RIA Novosti – Moscow, October 8, 2013) The Russian Federation’s annual spending on the nuclear arms complex is to be increased by more than 50 per cent in the next three years, says the appraisal report by from the State Duma Committee for Defense on the draft federal budget for 2014 and the planning period of 2015 and 2016. It […]

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Putin: Obama’s decision not to attend APEC Bali summit justified, I would have done the same

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(Interfax – BALI, October 7, 2013) The absence of U.S. President Barack Obama from the APEC Bali summit is quite understandable, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. He said he would have done the same. “We can see what is going on in U.S. domestic politics and this situation is not easy. I think the decision of the U.S. president not […]

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TRANSCRIPT: Press statement and [Putin] answers to journalists’ questions following the APEC summit

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Map of Asia-Pacific Highlighting APEC Member States

(Kremlin.ru – Bali, Indonesia – October 8, 2013) PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, I want to note that the APEC summit had good, practical outcomes. Let me recall once again that the Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s population; it generates 56 percent of global GDP and accounts […]

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Government programs need quality review – deputy minister

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Andrei Klepach file photo

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 8, 2013) Russian government programs require a quality review, as their funding is not backed by real budget spending, Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach said at a parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council in Moscow on Tuesday. “Government programs in key sectors – infrastructure, healthcare, education and science were compiled and considered with financing that […]

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IMF Says Russian Economic Growth Model Exhausted

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
File Photo of Cash, Coins, Line Graph

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, October 9, 2013) The International Monetary Fund warned in a report published Wednesday that Russia’s economic model has exhausted itself and predicted that future growth will be constrained by negative demographic trends. The IMF’s annual World Economic Outlook said that the Russian economy has managed to grow on the back of rising oil prices and by […]

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Russians doubt perpetrators of Politkovskaya murder will be tracked down – poll

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Human Rights, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 7, 2013) Forty-seven percent of Russians polled in September still have queries about who could benefit from the killing of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya seven years ago. Fifteen percent of respondents said the opposition forces, “interested in destabilization” could have been behind the killing, according to Levada Center pollster, and 12% said “Ramzan Kadyrov” and […]

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#180 :: Wednesday, 9 October 2013

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Map of Russia

[check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#180 :: 9 October 2013 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support […]

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#179 :: Thursday, 3 October 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#179 :: 3 October 2013 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES.org) at The George Washington University‘s Elliott School of International Affairs JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php POLITICS 1. Moscow Times: Black October Revisited. 2. Russia Today: Background to bloodshed […]

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Putin: productivity gains must accelerate to shift from raw materials

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Oil, Gas, Energy
Oil Well file photo

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 2, 2013) The current challenge for the Russian economy is the need to accelerate labor productivity gains, since the current slow pace means that the economic orientation on raw materials extraction will continue, President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow on Wednesday at the Russia Calling investment forum organized by VTB Capital. “For Russia, the main, crucial […]

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Cabinet Reviews Detailed Plans on Supporting Small Entrepreneurs

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Cash, Calculator, Pen

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anatoly Medetsky – October 3, 2013) The Cabinet on Thursday discussed moves to back small and medium-sized businesses with greater access to loans and state contracts as a way to spur the flagging economy. “We must make a serious breakthrough in the field of investment, the field of labor productivity, the field of diversification of […]

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Electrifying Russia’s business climate

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
Empty Boardroom

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Artem Zagorodnov in Moscow – October 3, 2013) One of Vladimir Putin’s first acts on being inaugurated president on May 7, 2012 concerned launching a series of “road maps” to improve Russia’s position in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” survey from 118th place to 50th by 2015 and 20th by 2018, by slashing bureaucracy […]

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Russia Beyond the Headlines – Russia: Surprising on the upside

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
File Photo of Cash, Coins, Line Graph

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – David Gray, managing partner of PwC Russia, special to RBTH – October 1, 2013) David Gray of PwC Russia explains how business opportunities can often be undervalued by foreigners based on his own 19 years in Moscow. Like an analyst giving a share tip, I think that I should start by admitting that, […]

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Interfax: Judging by how chemical weapons liquidation proceeds in Syria, we are on right path – Putin

Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons, ChemBio, Syria, WMD Proliferation
Syria Map

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 2, 2013) Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was content with the situation development regarding chemical weapons liquidation in Syria. “Judging by what work related to the Syrian chemical weapons liquidation is currently being held, we have grounds to think that we are on the right path,” Putin said when answering questions at the Investment Forum […]

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Interfax: Most Russians opposed to Libya-style intervention in Syria – poll

Syria
Syria Map

(Interfax – October 2, 2013) Over half of polled Russians (59 per cent) are against an international military operation in Syria similar to the one that was carried out in Libya, the Russian news agency Interfax reported on 2 October, quoting an opinion poll carried out by the independent pollster Levada Centre amongst 1,601 Russian adults between 20 and 24 […]

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Moscow Largely Powerless to Redirect Migration in Russia, Expert Says

Population Disaster, Demographics, Race, Ethnic, Extremism, Xenophobia
Migrant Workers file photo

(Window on Europe – Paul Goble – Staunton, October 2, 2013) In the face of underlying economic and demographic trends, the central Russian government has almost no chance to redirect migration within the Russian Federation away from the major cities and toward the northern and eastern portions of the country, according to a new study by a leading Moscow demographer. […]

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Moscow Times: Majority of Russians Think Greenpeace Arrests Appropriate

Arctic, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Environment, International Law, Oil, Gas, Energy, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Polar Map Showing Permafrost Areas, Adapted From NOAA.gov Graphic

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – October 3, 2013) The majority of Russians approve of the piracy charges against 28 Greenpeace activists who were detained in late September after trying to climb an Gazprom-owned oil drilling rig in the Arctic to protest its environmental impact. A survey from state pollster VTsIOM published Wednesday showed that 60 percent of the respondents believe […]

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Interfax: Loss of ‘sovereignty’ unacceptable price for quality of life – Putin

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Sitting at Desk

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 2, 2013) Loss of national “sovereignty” is not an acceptable price for higher quality of life in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. “It’s impossible for Russia to swap sovereignty for better quality of life, because if we lose our sovereignty, we will lose the country,” Putin said at a meeting of the Council on […]

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Putin Confronts Economy’s Long-Term Flaws

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Cash, Coins, Line Graph

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Guennadi Moukine – October 3, 2013) The worst of the economic crisis is over and the economy is under control, but it is time to steer the economy back into growth mode, President Vladimir Putin said at an investment forum Wednesday. He was speaking at the Russia Calling! VTB Capital event in Moscow, where he […]

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TRANSCRIPT: [Putin at] Russia Calling! Investment Forum

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Valdai Club 2013 Meeting, Adapted from Screenshot of Valdai Club Video at youtube.com

(Kremlin.ru – Moscow – October 2, 2013) Vladimir Putin took part in the fifth annual “Russia Calling!” Investment Forum, organised by VTB Capital. The theme of this year’s forum is New Horizons for Growth: How to Reach Them. The “Russia Calling!” Investment Forum provides a platform for developing dialogue between Russian business and the international investment community. Prominent political and […]

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Russia Hopes Putin, Obama Will Meet at Upcoming Summit – Kremlin

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin Leaning Towards Barack Hussein Obama With Flags Behind Them

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, October 3, 2013) ­ Russia is hopeful that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will meet on the sidelines of an Asia Pacific regional summit in Indonesia on October 7, a Kremlin official said Thursday. Presidential aide Yury Ushakov said that the planned meeting during the upcoming APEC summit was Russia’s initiative, that it was “immediately […]

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Autumn 1993 through American eyes

History, Soviet Union
File Photo of Parliament Building Billowing Smoke in 1993

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Wayne Merry, special to RBTH – October 3, 2013) Wayne Merry, a retired diplomat who served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow 20 years ago, recalls October 1993. E. Wayne Merry was in charge of the analysis and reporting of Russian domestic political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow 1991-94. October 3, […]

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Split of ruling elites causes October 1993 events in Moscow – poll

History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Parliament Building Billowing Smoke in 1993

(Interfax – MOSCOW, October 2, 2013) Eighty percent of Russians remember the standoff between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov’s parliament that resulted in disturbances in Moscow in October 1993, sociologists told Interfax. Sixteen percent of the 1,600 respondents polled in 130 towns and cities in 42 regions in September learned about those events from the sociologists. Most […]

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How October 1993 led to President Putin

History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Parliament Building Billowing Smoke in 1993

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexander Kolesnichenko, special to RBTH – October 3, 2013) Twenty years later, the changes to Russia’s political system enacted in the aftermath of the October 1993 attempted coup still reverberate. On Oct. 3, 1993, post-Soviet Russia faced its first major political crisis. The two-day conflict between then-President Boris Yeltsin and the State Duma […]

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Black October Revisited

History, Soviet Union
File Photo of Parliament Building Billowing Smoke in 1993

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – October 3, 2013) See the Black October Revisited Photogallery: www.themoscowtimes.com/multimedia/photogalleries/black-october-revisited/5114.html People commemorated on Thursday the 20th anniversary of Black October, a 10-day standoff between President Boris Yeltsin and the parliament that ended in military force and the deaths of at least 187 people. Members of the Alfa special forces and other law enforcement agencies who […]

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#178 :: Tuesday 1 October 2013

JRL Tables of Contents, Russian News
Map of Russia

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#178 :: 1 October 2013 E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES.org) at The George Washington University‘s Elliott School of International Affairs JRL homepage: russialist.org JRL on Facebook: facebook.com/russialist JRL on Twitter: twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi Support JRL: russialist.org/funding.php POLITICS 1. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Human right for private life becomes stronger […]

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