Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#127 :: 15 July 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#127:: 15 July 2013
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POLITICS

1. Russia Direct: Can the global middle class effect change? Russia Direct interviews Russian and American pundits about the role that the global middle class plays in U.S.-Russian relations and in shaping the geopolitical agenda.
2. Vedomosti: Continued Conservative Policy, Dismantling of Paternalist System Dichotomy Seen. (Igor Bunin and Aleksey Makarkin)
3. Interfax: Total of 4.6 mln Soviet soldiers, killed in World War II, still not identified.
4. Interfax: Patriarch Kirill conducts Romanov Dynasty 400th anniversary service in St. Petersburg.
5. ITAR-TASS: Putin goes undersea to sunken sailing ship in Bay of Finland.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, July 15, 2013.
7. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Editorial Highlights Flaws of Municipal ‘Filter’ in Regional Elections.
8. RIA Novosti: Kremlin Rights Council Chief Slams Parliament for Hasty Laws.
9. New York Times: Retribution, Corruption or Both in Russia Mayor’s Bribery Case. (re Yevgeny Urlashov)
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: NGOs refuse to confirm their ‘agent’ status. Not a single organization has registered as a “foreign agent” in the past year.
11. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Kudrin’s Offer To Substitute for Golos’s Election Monitoring Said PR-Mongering.
12. New York Times: N.S.A. Leaks Revive Push in Russia to Control Net.
13. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia’s Public Chamber, HRC join debate on internet regulati.on.
14. www.russiatoday.com: Blogs soon to be listed as mass media – report.
15. Novyye Izvestiya: Glasnost Protection Foundation President Assails ‘IIdiocy’ of Proposed Media Regulation Law. (Aleksey Simonov)
16. BBC Monitoring: Russian protest leader thanks supporters in radio interview. (Aleksey Navalnyy)
17. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis. Did Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Just Endorse A Race Riot?
18. ITAR-TASS: Pugachyov’s lessons: revision.
19. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: Spiritual and Moral Pugachev Rebellion. The Majority of Russian Citizens Are Up for Violent Actions Against People of a Different Ethnicity.
20. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russia Faces Authoritarian or Democratic Disintegration, Analyst Says.
21. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Sergei Markedonov, Challenges and cooperation for Sochi 2014 security. Russia’s reputation at stake in ensuring safe Winter Games.

ECONOMY

22. Interfax: Corruption halts approx 14% of businesses in Russia – RUIE.
23. ITAR-TASS: Medvedev finds Russia’s share on IT market very small.
24. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s half companies do not feel consequences from RF membership in WTO.
25. New York Times: City in Russia Unable to Kick Asbestos Habit.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

26. RIA Novosti: US, Russian Officials Preview G20 Summit.
27. Moscow Times: Snowden Puts His Future in Russia’s Hands.
28. Human Rights Watch: Tanya Lokshina, No Ordinary Day in Moscow. Meeting Edward Snowden.
29. ITAR-TASS: Snowden hasn’t applied in Federal Migration Service for asylum in Russia.
30. Interfax: Snowden healthy, neat and prosperous – source.
31. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Political scientists on Edward Snowden problem.
32. www.russiatoday.com: Snowden’s personal saga comes at bad moment for Russia-US relations. (interview with Stephen Cohen)
33. Izvestia: Russian Commentator: Snowden Case ‘Catalyst’ for US-Latin American Divide. (Kirill Benediktov)
34. Interfax: Experts differ on Russia’s likely response to US move to expand Magnitskiy list.
35. Russia Direct: Alec Luhn, Three things you thought you knew about Russian foreign policy. Latent Cold War sentiment continues to affect how we view our relationship with Russia.
36. Washington Post: Fred Hiatt, Obama’s broken commitment to human rights in Russia.
37. RIA Novosti: Fyodor Lukyanov, Confusion and Irritation Reign in Global Politics.
38. Russia & India Report: Rakesh Krishnan Simha, Why Russia won’t throw Syria under the bus. Russia’s reliability as an ally rests on whether it can secure Syria, whose future as a free nation is at stake.
39. Valdai Dicussion Club: Lassi Heininen, Alexander Sergunin, and Gleb Yarovoy, New Russian Arctic Doctrine: From Idealism to Realism?
40. www.russiatoday.com: Russian military stages biggest war games since Soviet times.
41. US-Russia.org: Expert Discussion Panel. Should the West be afraid of Moscow’s plans for a Eurasian Union?