Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#139 :: 1 August 2013
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#139 :: 1 August 2013
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POLITICS
1. Interfax: Most of Russians mistrust national judiciary – poll.
2. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Commentary Deplores Russian Nationalism, Racism, Calls for Enforcement of Laws. (Nikolay Svanidze)
3. Gazeta.ru: Russian Commentator: Accumulating Risk Factors Could Topple Russian Regime. (Sergey Shelin)
4. Valdai Discussion Club: Eduard Ponarin and Boris Sokolov, Elite Ideology, Mass Protests, and Russia’s Democratic Prospects.
5. RIA Novosti: 131 Years After Death, Dostoyevsky Undergoes Criminal Check in Russia.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Aug. 1, 2013.
7. www.russiatoday.com: Putin accuses police of negligence, corruption ties with merchants following massive raid on Moscow markets.
8. BBC Monitoring: Putin’s pike catch just shows the man is lucky – nature reserve head.
9. Interfax: Over half of Moscow citizens ready to vote at mayoral elections – poll.
10. Moskovskiye Novosti: Commentary Sees Opposition Losing Supporters as Navalnyy’s Negative Rating Rises.
11. Grani.ru: Liberals Urged To Support Navalnyy Despite Misgivings About Some of His Views. (Aleksandr Skobov)
12. Institute of Modern Russia: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Elections in Moscow: Why a Boycott Is Counterproductive.
13. Moscow Times: Nikolai Petrov, Navalny as an Icebreaker.
14. Moscow TImes: Peter Rutland, The Kremlin’s Repressive Tolerance of Navalny.
15. Kommersant: Polls Show United Russia’s Rating Fluctuates, Does Not Affect Putin-Medvedev Tandem.
16. Moscow Times: Urlashov Faces More Charges.
17. ITAR-TASS: Law on curbing Internet piracy about to take effect.
18. Vedomosti editorial: Web Piracy Law Denounced As ‘Opportunistic’ and Unconstitutional.
19. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Human rights activists propose to grant amnesty to women, elderly people and disabled people.
20. www.opendemocracy.net: Sentence first, verdict afterwards. Kirill Koroteev describes the day to day of working as a lawyer at distinguished Russian NGO ‘Memorial’.
21. RIA Novosti: Most Russians Unhappy About Migrant Worker Influx - State Survey.
22. ITAR-TASS: Attack on Moscow policeman by man from Caucasus enflames Russia.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines Asia Pacific: Back to hostility: the roots of Russian anti-gay attitude. 20 years after the decriminalization of homosexuality, Russian state turns against gay people, further deepening the social chasm that existed for years.
24. www.luciankim.com: Lucian Kim, Russia’s Highlanders Explained.
25. Film.com: Soviet Hitch: How Russia Is Killing its Film Industry.
ECONOMY
26. ITAR-TASS: Russian government to discuss innovation economy state program.
27. Business New Europe: Ivan Tchakarov, Rouble devaluation – Don’t read my lips!
28. ITAR-TASS: Russia to build up positions in Asia-Pacific region, modernizing the longest world railway.
29. www.4hoteliers.com: Russians projected to spend close to $52B USD abroad in 2013.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
30. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Possibility of Canceled Moscow Meeting Decried, Obama Urged To Discuss Matters With Putin.
31. Reuters: Fugitive Snowden slips out of Moscow airport for secret location.
32. RIA Novosti: Snowden Standoff Cannot Affect US-Russian Ties – Kremlin.
33. RIA Novosti: Snowden’s Russia Asylum Gets Mixed Response From Rights Advocates.
34. The National Interest: Jacob Heilbrun, From Russia With Love: Snowden Gets Asylum.
35. RIA Novosti: Most Russians Positive About Snowden – Survey.
36. ITAR-TASS: Russian and US nuclear experts sum up cooperation results under Megatons to Megawatts Program.
37. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Since 2000 Russia’s Defense Spending Has Almost Tripled (But It Still Isn’t A Threat To The West)
38. Foreign Affairs: Fiona Hill and Bobo Lo, Putin’s Pivot. Why Russia Is Looking East.
39. Gazeta.ru: Russian Expert: Syrian Situation Will Remain ‘Unstable’ for ‘Long Time To Come’ (Leonid Isayev)
40. Politkom.ru: Moscow Website Says Kremlin Set to Favor Medvedchuk in 2015 Ukraine Presidential Race.
41. Carnegie Moscow Center Eurasia Outlook: Don’t Count on Europe. Europe is caught between conflicting feelings toward the Georgian-Russian rapprochement. For Georgia, this means it will have to manage relations with Russia on its own.
OTHER RESOURCES
42. Andrew Weiss: Job Opening – Deputy Director, Moscow Carnegie Center.
43. Atlantic Council new study: Celeste Wallander, Mutually Assured Stability: Establishing US-Russia Security Relations for a New Century.
44. Valdai Discussion Club launched first grantees report: The Russian Elite 2020.