Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#134 :: 24 July 2013
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#134 :: 24 July 2013
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POLITICS
1. Moscow Times: Foreign Language Skills Valued by Russians, Poll Says.
2. ITAR-TASS: Russians point out migrants as biggest threat to themselves.
3. Interfax: More Russians than not distrust local elections – poll.
4. BBC Monitoring: TV documentary hails Russian Orthodox Church’s nation-building role.
5. Kremlin.ru: Interview for the documentary film The Second Baptism of Rus.
6. www.opendemocracy.net: Sam Greene, From Russia, lessons for Egypt. Can manipulating the democratic process ever play out in the interest of progressive politics?
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, July 24, 2013.
8. Interfax: Acting Moscow Mayor Sobyanin vows to ensure as honest elections as possible.
9. Interfax: Website to be launched to provide online cover of mayoral elections.
10. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia already knows Moscow mayoral election winner.
11. Interfax: Navalnyy’s support in upcoming Moscow mayor election stands at 9 per cent – poll.
12. Vedomosti editorial: Navalnyy’s Restoral to Moscow Election Race Seen Marking ‘Return of Politics’
13. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: Unexpected Release of Navalnyy Seen Indicating Split in Ruling Elite.
14. Gazeta.ru: Kremlin Insiders’ Theories on Reasons for Navalnyy’s Release From Prison Discussed.
15. Svobodnaya Pressa: Oleg Kashin, Putin Is a Kind of Medvedev. Oleg Kashin Continues the Search for Navalnyy’s Real Liberators.
16. Interfax: Politkovskaya children to boycott ‘undignified trial’ of mother’s alleged killers.
17. Moscow Times: Alexander Golts, Some Military Dreams Never Come True.
18. Valdai Discussion Club: Finding the connection between regional, national and world history. Interview with Denis Sekirinsky.
19. ITAR-TASS: Russian Public Television living through times of financial problems.
20. Moscow News: Mayakovsky anniversary reveals struggle over poet’s legacy.
ECONOMY
21. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Only 13 people released from prison over three weeks of economic amnesty.
22. Interfax: No economic amnesty to Russian opposition leader, tycoon yet – ombudsman
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant Dengi: Strategic packages: Privatization plans and challenges. There is a new course of federal property privatization beginning in Russia, the beneficiaries of which will be top managers of privatized, state-owned companies. This time around, the budget revenues from the sale of state assets will be lower than planned.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How to start a small business in Russia. The business landscape in Russia has changed in the last decade and, now, more and more foreign nationals are starting businesses in the country, attracted to the opportunities for growth and space for new ideas in the Russian market. Foreign entrepreneurs doing business in.Russia shared with RBTH their experiences and advice.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: McDonald’s sales growth in Russia tops US, Europe.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
26. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Is Snowden about to become a refugee in Russia?
27. www.russiatoday.com: Snowden granted entry to Russia, free to leave airport – source.
28. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Soft-Power Agency Is Allocated More Funds.
29. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Vladimir Putin plans to visit Iran.
30. www.russiatoday.com: Putin to offer advanced antimissiles to soothe Iran’s S-300 grudge - report.
31. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Ukraine Offers More Reasons for Optimism than Russia Does, Shevtsova Says.