Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#178 :: Tuesday 1 October 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#178 :: 1 October 2013
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POLITICS

1. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Human right for private life becomes stronger in Russia.
2. ITAR-TASS: Dozen ways to ward off autumn blues and woes.
3. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Is The Russian Federation Imploding?
4. RIA Novosti: Russia Gets Poor Marks for Wellbeing of its Elderly -­ Report.
5. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Most Russian pensioners happy – poll.
6. ITAR-TASS: Kremlin official says no discussion yet of candidates for presidency in 2018. (Sergei Ivanov)
7. Moscow Times: Kremlin Chief of Staff Surprised but Not Alarmed by Navalny.
8. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Putin’s ‘We’ll see’ plan. Stop thinking Putin has everything figured out, because he doesn’t.
9. Moscow Times: Medvedev Bets on Private Business in Hard Economic Times.
10. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s article: The time of simple solutions is past. (Vedomosti)
11. Government.ru: Twelfth International Investment Forum Sochi-2013.
12. Interfax: Russian judicial authorities should win citizens’ trust – Medvedev.
13. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel.
14. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Dmitry Medvedev’s Approval Rate, Now At An All-Time Low, Has Sharply Diverged From Vladimir Putin’s.
15. Interfax: Russians are still afraid of terrorist acts – poll.
16. Moscow Times: Nikolai Petrov, Medvedev’s Usual Patter in Sochi
17. Izvestia: Putin’s Press Secretary Interviewed About the President’s Private Life, Possible Fourth Term.
18. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russian Analyst Sees Opposition Victories as Part of Putin Plan to Win Back Trust in Elections. (Mikhail Rostovskiy)
19. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Low Voter Turnout Shows Russians ‘Intuitively’ Recognize that Kremlin Controls All Politics, Pavlova Says.
20. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, The Gulag within: Harsh realities of Russian penal colonies.
21. Reuters: Sochi in final stretch as flame lit in Olympia.

ECONOMY

22. Interfax: Shuvalov: Russia to suspend megaprojects, develop transport infrastructure.
23. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russian budget for 2014-2016 to be sequestered.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Natalia Orlova, In Russia, the consumer reigns supreme. How Russia’s macroeconomics indicate it’s a booming consumer, not oil, economy.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How Russia leads the G20 in support for business. EY’s country managing partner on how Russia took 1st place among the G20 countries for coordinated business support and why it’s easier to file taxes here than in the U.S.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

26. Moscow Times: U.S. Embassy in Moscow Offers Assurances Amid U.S. Shutdown.
27. Russia Direct: What the U.S. government shutdown means for Russia.
28. ITAR-TASS: Kremlin official believes it is normal Russia, US each defending its interests. (Sergei Ivanov)
29. RIA Novosti: Moscow to Conduct Its Own Probe into Syria Chemical Attacks.
30. The National Interest: Rajan Menon, Weighing Russia’s Syria Success.
31. Moscow Times: Gilbert Doctorow, Putin’s Month in the Limelight Shows His Growth.
32. Russia Direct: Andrei P. Tsygankov, Putin wants a stronger Obama. Putin’s Syria proposal is actually part of a broader strategy to strengthen Barack Obama against the increasingly vocal Russia skeptics in the U.S.
33. Interfax: New START treaty must be implemented before further nuclear disarmament moves are made – Moscow.
34. Russia Direct: Alexandra George, Russia and China, the ultimate frenemies. Bilateral relations between Russia and China are far more comprehensive and sophisticated than keeping the U.S. in check.
35. Washington Post editorial: Russia pressures former Soviet republics to join his economic union. (sic)
36. Reuters: As Ukraine looks west to Europe, Russia’s shadow looms.