Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#125 :: 11 July 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#125 :: 11 July 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Sergei Markov, The Myths of Putin’s Political Repression.
2. Bloomberg: Putin Preferred in Moscow With Protests Seen Shifting to Regions.
3. Kommersant: Vyacheslav Volodin Briefs Analysts on Ongoing Domestic Policy ‘Reset’ Process.
4. Gazeta.ru: Presidential Staff’s Volodin, Analysts Discuss Russian Domestic Policy Priorities.
5. Polit.ru: Polls Suggest Internet Growing as News Source for Russians but ‘Traditional Media’ Still Lead.
6. www.mobile-ent.biz: 70 per cent of Russians now read digital books.
7. Moscow Times: Half of Russians Support Tough NGO Sanctions.
8. New York Times: Step Right Up, Kids, the Predator Is Ready.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, July 11, 2013.
10. Moscow Times: Poll Shows Sobyanin With Huge Lead in Mayoral Race.
11. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian Duma members take on nepotism in state institutions.
12. www.russiatoday.com: Duma ponders tougher punishment for journalist attacks.
13. Moscow News: Russian prosecutor calls for more NGOs oversight.
14. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Prosecutor-general briefs on NGO “foreign agents”
15. Interfax: Memorial refuses to be recognized as foreign agent.
16. Moscow Times: Ponomaryov Accused of Orchestrating Bolotnaya Riots.
17. RIA Novosti: After Fatal Brawl, Russia’s Ethnic Tensions Hard to Cool.
18. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Mass protests continue to rock Russian small town of Pugachev.
19. Gazeta.ru eitorial: Russian Citizens’ Hostility Toward Incomers Is Dictated by a Sense of General Injustice.
20. Moscow Times: Rights Council Members Shown a Transformed Chechnya.
21. Reuters: Russia finds dead lawyer Magnitsky guilty in posthumous trial.
22. RFE/RL: Russia’s New Digital Vigilantes.
23. RIA Novosti: Corruption up 450% in a Year in Russian Forces – Prosecutors.
24. Moscow Times: Russian Booker Nominees Listed.
25. New York Times: Anton Antonov Ovseyenko, Who Exposed Stalin Terror, Dies at 93.

ECONOMY

26. Valdai Discussion Club: Sergei Dubinin, What to Expect from New Russia’s Economic Leadership.
27. Bloomberg: Nabiullina Seen Holding Russia Rates as Inflation Limits Options.
28. Interfax: Russia will not see significant change in tax system in next three yrs – Medvedev.
29. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Vedomosti: Russia’s daily oil production hits 25-year high.
30. www.russiatoday.com: No more ‘take-or-pay’: Gazprom forced to end 40 year-old gas pricing regime.
31. Reuters: Russia to lift oil exports to Asia at expense of Europe.
32. Interfax: Rotenberg denies his friend Putin helps him run his business.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

33. Wall Street Journal: Russia Seeks Low-Tech Devices To Safeguard State Secrets.
34. Bloomberg: Germans Hail Snowden as NSA Evokes Stasi Seizing Lives of Others.
35. Izvestia: PR Nonprofit Positive Russia To Bolster Country’s Image in Britain.
36. ITAR-TASS: Aleutian Islands to be searched for remains of Russian culture.
37. New York Times: China and Russia, in a Display of Unity, Hold Naval Exercises.
38. New York Times; Jeffrey Mankoff, The Wary Chinese-Russian Partnership.
39. BBC Monitoring: Russia’s findings on chemical weapons used in Syria convincing – minister.
40. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Analyst Claims US, Europe Unable To Influence Developments in Egypt. (Fedor Lukyanov)
41. Gazeta.ru: Russian Expert Views Egypt’s ‘Anti-Islamist Revolution.’ (Aleksandr Ignatenko)
42. Interfax: Russian senator blames underfunding for loss on influence in post-Soviet space.
43. Carnegie Moscow Center’s Eurasia Outlook: Alexey Malashenko, Central Asia: The Lessons of the Arab Spring.
44. Interfax: N. Korea will not peacefully abandon nukes – analytical report.
45. Stratfor.com: In the Baltics, Emigration and Demographic Decline.