Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#149 :: 15 August 2013
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#149 :: 15 August 2013
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POLITICS
1. Russia Direct: Russian protest movement: smaller and more radical? A new analytical report from the Kryshtanovskaya Lab describes the challenges facing the Russian opposition and sparks discussion about the future of the Russian protest movement.
2. RIA Novosti: More Parties Banned From Elections in Russia – Study.
3. Reuters: Russia to close hundreds of schools after population drops.
4. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russia’s Wealthiest Selling Apartments in Moscow and Fleeing Country, Realtors Say.
5. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Aug. 15, 2013.
6. Interfax: VTsIOM promises first round victory of mayoral candidate Sobyanin.
7. RFE/RL: Moscow Mayoral Race Heats Up In The Home Stretch.
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian election debate: Candidates discuss transport, Navalnyy focuses on graft.
9. Moscow Times: Apartment Raid Leaves Navalny Supporters Baffled.
10. Vedomosti: Commentators Question Russian Prosecutors’ Assertions of Foreign Funding for Navalnyy Campaign.
11. Novaya Gazeta: Navalnyy ‘Social Contract’ Signatures Identified, Some Comment on Their Reasons.
12. www.opendemocracy.net: Daniil Kotsyubinsky, Messiah or false prophet? (re Navalny)
13. Vedomosti: Russian Justice Ministry Drafting Law to Allow Voters to Dispute Election Results.
14. Kommersant: Russian NGO Law Challenged in Constitutional Court.
15. ITAR-TASS: Jurors’ competencies may be cut again.
16. Bloomberg: Putin’s Men Crack Down on Migrants as Moscow Mayor Race Heats Up.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Pravmir.ru : When adoption opens up a new world. The moving testimony of a brave Russian woman who chose the more difficult path to adoption – welcoming a child with special needs into her family.
ECONOMY
18. Moscow Times: More than 70% of Large State Contracts Awarded in Legal “Gray Area”
19. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Deportation of migrants may seriously harm economy.
20. Interfax: Russian crime not rising due to immigrants – migration service official.
21. Interfax: Seventy people walk free under ‘economic amnesty’
22. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, WTO’s Tough Medicine Is Good for Russia.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How to get a good deal in a Moscow market. Russian markets have plenty to offer to their customers – fresh produce, variety and encounters with different cultures. RBTH presents this essential guide to help you navigate the best marketplaces in Moscow.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
24. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Was Russia Right About The Arab Spring?
25. Valdai Discussion Club: Ruslan Pukhov, A look at Russian national strategy in the context of defence, foreign policy, and relations with NATO.
26. Der Spiegel: Russia Today. Putin’s Weapon in the War of Images.
27. Der Spiegel: Russia Today’s Editor-In-Chief. ‘The West Never Got Over the Cold War Stereotype’
28. ITAR-TASS: Most Russians consider Snowden a hero.
29. Russia Direct: Fyodor Lukyanov, Snowden: Afterword. What the Snowden Affair taught us about the current state of U.S.-Russian relations and how they will develop in the future.
30. www.foreignaffairs.com: Leon Aron, The Russian Pause. How Putin Stalled the Reset.
31. RIA Novosti: NATO Avoids ‘Costly’ Russian Transit Hub - Paper.
32. Moscow Times: Pavel Baev, Putin’s Blurred Arctic Vision.
33. Russia Direct: Yulia Sveshnikova, Russia won’t like it if Iran friends the U.S.. The delay of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iran has some wondering whether the future of Russian-Iranian relations is in limbo.
34. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Moscow paralyses Ukrainian exports.
35. www.opendemocracy.net: Liana Fix, Five Years after the Russian-Georgian War.