Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#133 :: 23 July 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#133 :: 23 July 2013
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POLITICS

1. The Conversation: Christopher Read, The stunts are silly, but Vladimir Putin is no tyrant.
2. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia’s top lawyers sound alarm about government abuse of the Constitution.
3. ITAR-TASS: Vladimir Putin: Russian Orthodox Church plays vital role in Russian society.
4. New York TImes: Vladislav Shayman, Moscow My Home.
5. RIA Novosti: Moscow Named Second Most Expensive City for Expats.
6. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Four Paths for Russia Now Have Leaders, St. Petersburg Scholar Says. (Dmitry Travin)
7. Interfax: 1,700 children live in Moscow region orphanages, over 22,000 have already found families – Astakhov.
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, July 23, 2013.
9. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Konstantin Smirnov, Putin Trips Over His Own Power Vertical. And His Manual-Controlled Machine Has Rusted Through.
10. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Communists want to gather a million of signatures for the dismissal of the Russian government.
11. Moscow Times: Former Tula Governor Sentenced to 9 1/2 Years.
12. ITAR-TASS: Experts say Sobyanin may win Moscow mayoral election hands down.
13. ITAR-TASS: Poll results show Navalny’s popularity increases.
14. Interfax: Navalny has no chance to win and he doesn’t plan to – analysts.
15. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Vladimir Putin did not give any order to release from custody oppositionist Navalny.
16. Moscow News: Navalny: Out of the frying pan, into the Moscow mayoral race.
17. BBC Monitoring: Russia’s Navalnyy promises major overhaul if elected Moscow mayor.
18. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Business Mediators Outside the Law? Economists on the Kirovles Affair. What Navalnyy was convicted over is the routine practice of Russian entrepreneurs.
19. Politkom.ru: Aleksey Makarkin, From Incarceration To Leadership.
20. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, The Kremlin Is Split Over Navalny.
21. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Navalny’s catch-22.
22. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, The Navalny Case: What Does It Say About the Russian Political Regime and Its Alternative.
23. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Why Navalny Is Winning.
24. www.thenation.com: Alec Luhn, Despite His Politicized Trial, Aleksei Navalny Is Still a Divisive Figure in Russia.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Proposed bill aims to make lives of journalists safer.

ECONOMY

26. RIA Novosti: First 13 Businessmen Released in Economic Amnesty.
27. Interfax: June investment slowdown troubling, but GDP growth forecast unchanged – Ulyukayev.
28. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russian government to control income and expenditure of state-funded agencies’ senior managers.
29. RIA Novosti: Leading Russian Economist Slams Medvedev’s Move To ‘Police’ State Companies. (Yevgeniy Yasin)
30. Moscow Times: Investment Standards Face Hurdles.
31. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Universities ignore economy’s demands. Russian institutions produce too many lawyers and economists, not enough IT specialists.
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: G20 finance ministers agree on priorities in Moscow.
33. Reuters: Russian nuclear ambition powers building at home and abroad.
34. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: EU and Gazprom have found common ground.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

35. Politico.com: Russia says U.S. hypocritical on Snowden.
36. CNN.com: Olga Oliker, America’s Russia policy makes sense.
37. Russia Direct: Forget the Cold War: Millennials embrace exchange programs. In an era of globalization, educational exchanges between the U.S. and Russia are leading to new opportunities to work together and patch over Cold War tensions.
38. Al-Monitor: Samuel Charap and Jeremy Shapiro, How the US Can Move Russia on Syria.
39. Ron Pope: Facilitating Learning Russian.

OTHER RESOURCES & EVENTS

40. US-RussiaDialogue, Moscow: US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program.
41. New issue of Russian Analytical Digest: PUTIN 3.0: THE ECONOMIC PLAN.
42. Columbia University Harriman Institute: Call for Nominations Klebnikov Fellowship Program
43. The International Institute for Strategic Studies-US: Invitation: US-Russia Relations and the Asia-Pacific, July 26.