Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#103 :: 7 June 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#103 :: 7 June 2013
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POLITICS

1. BBC Monitoring: Putin announces end of marriage on Russian TV.
2. New York Times: Rarely Together, Putins Meet Up Only to Split Up.
3. Reuters: Putin tends to image with public split, but will he remarry?
4. Interfax: Putin’s spokesman Peskov calls for treating president’s life with respect.
5. AP: Russia media compassionate about Putin’s divorce.
6. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russians sympathize with Putins over divorce.
7. RFE/RL: Russians React With Humor To Putin’s Divorce Announcement.
8. Moscow Times: Lyudmila Putina Once Called Her Husband a Vampire.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, June 7, 2013.
10. RIA Novosti: Putin Slams Ministers’ 5-Year Plans.
11. Interfax: Putin wants information about ministries’ work to be made public.
12. ITAR-TASS: Government reshuffle is not on agenda – Peskov.
13. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Sergei Sobyanin will nominate himself as mayoral candidate.
14. Interfax: Sobyanin has more supporters than opponents amongst Muscovites – poll.
15. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Heavyweight Russian Daily Backs Incumbent Moscow Mayor in Early Election.
16. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Moscow Daily Views Possible Opposition Contenders, Prospects in Moscow Mayoral Race.
17. Moscow TImes: Court Extends Detentions as Bolotnoye Trial Begins.
18. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Twelve people accused of participating in Moscow’s mass disorders.
19. ITAR-TASS: Investigators deny Kasparov’s claims of political persecution by Russian authorities.
20. Interfax: Russian rights veterans issue statement in support of ‘foreign agent’ NGOs.
21. Interfax: More than one in five Russians want to emigrate – poll.
22. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Every fifth Russian would like to emigrate.
23. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Nearly One Russian in Four Now Wants to Move Abroad, Survey Finds.
24. RIA Novosti: Revised Russian ‘Gay Propaganda’ Ban To Be Put To Key Vote On 11 June.
25. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Editorial Outlines Challenges Facing New Head of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov.
26. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, Can Alexey Kudrin Be The Next Russian Prime Minister?
27. Russia! Magazine: Sean Guillory, Migrants and Russia’s Split National Identity.
28. Voice of America: James Brooke, Russia Wants Tourism, Not Terrorism, for Embattled Caucasus.

ECONOMY

29. Business New Europe: VTB Capital, Russia Early Indicators – prepare for big negative surprise in May’s data.
30. Business New Europe: Sberbank CIB, Russia too wealthy to grow fast.
31. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: State budget improves Russia’s image. Russia climbs six places to 42nd place in IMD rankings.
32. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Cheap Immigrant Labor Said Obstacle to Economy’s Modernization.
33. The Economist: Russian retailing. A Magnit for investors. A retailer doing well in a business-unfriendly country
34. Moscow Times: Russia Invests in American Cows.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

35. New York Times: François Heisbourg, Russia’s Success, the West’s Failure.
36. Moscow Times: Peter Rutland, Obama’s Russian Policy With Rice.
37. RIA Novosti: Moscow Slams Western Support for Syria Opposition.
38. Interfax: U.S. shields won’t stop Russia’s new missiles from reaching their targets – Russian Deputy Premier.
39. BBC Monitoring: US missile defence can be used against Russia, insists deputy defence minister.
40. Interfax: FSB cooperates with FBI, CIA in Boston terror attack investigation – Bortnikov.
41. AP: Putin: Navy in Mediterranean not saber-rattling.
42. Interfax: Moscow wants clarity from Turkey on detention of militants with sarin – Lavrov.
43. RIA Novosti: UN ‘Welcomes’ Russian Peacekeepers in Golan Heights.
44. US-Russia.org: William Dunkerley, Supporters Abandon Rogue Coroner in British Litvinenko Case.
45. Interfax: Turkey won’t have ‘Arab spring’ – Senator Shnyakin.
46. Interfax:Tbilisi says supplies of Georgian wine to Russia to resume next week.
47. Interfax: Ukrainians have trust in church, media, army – poll.