Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#179 :: Thursday, 3 October 2013

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#179 :: 3 October 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Black October Revisited.
2. Russia Today: Background to bloodshed ­ 20 years since Russia’s constitutional crisis.
3. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How October 1993 led to President Putin. Twenty years later, the changes to Russia’s political system enacted in the aftermath of the October 1993 attempted coup still reverberate.
4. Interfax: Split of ruling elites causes October 1993 events in Moscow – poll.
5. ITAR-TASS: Russians still divided over 1993 autumn crisis in Moscow.
6. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, 1993: Russia’s “Small” Civil War.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Autumn 1993 through American eyes. Wayne Merry, a retired diplomat who served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow 20 years ago, recalls October 1993.
8. ITAR-TASS: Moscow is paradise island in contrast to rest of Russia.
9. Moscow Times: Putin Confronts Economy’s Long-Term Flaws.
10. Kremlin.ru: Russia Calling! Investment Forum.
11. Interfax: Loss of ‘sovereignty’ unacceptable price for quality of life – Putin.
12. ITAR-TASS: United Russia congress to discuss party strategy against growing political competition.
13. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Kremlin Reported to Be Making Overtures to Russian Opposition Leader Vladimir Ryzhkov.
14. BBC Monitoring: Russia’s Putin noncommittal on prospect of amnesty for high-profile prisoners.
15. Moscow Times: Majority of Russians Think Greenpeace Arrests Appropriate.
16. Paul Goble: Window on Europe: Moscow Largely Powerless to Redirect Migration in Russia, Expert Says.

ECONOMY

17. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russians have more life’s demands.
18. Interfax: Putin: productivity gains must accelerate to shift from raw materials.
19. Moscow Times: Cabinet Reviews Detailed Plans on Supporting Small Entrepreneurs.
20. Business New Europe: Artem Zagorodnov, Electrifying Russia’s business climate.
21. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, Russia’s Strong Balance Sheet Only Goes So Far.
22. Moscow Times: James Beadle, Political Gateway Opens.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia: Surprising on the upside. David Gray of PwC Russia explains how business opportunities can often be undervalued by foreigners based on his own 19 years in Moscow.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

24. Moscow Times: Sergie Karaganov, Obama’s Doomed Reset.
25. RIA Novosti: Russia Hopes Putin, Obama Will Meet at Upcoming Summit – Kremlin.
26. Reuters: Russia says embassy staff in Libya evacuated after attack.
27. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Fedor Lukyanov, A World Without Rules. Even the Impossible Is Possible.
28. Interfax: Judging by how chemical weapons liquidation proceeds in Syria, we are on right path – Putin.
29. Interfax: Most Russians opposed to Libya-style intervention in Syria – poll.
30. Russia Direct: James Carden, Angst over a Russian-dominated Middle East. Critics in the U.S. who worry about Russia’s growing presence in the Middle East should take a closer look at Russia’s underlying interests and motives in the region.
31. New York Times: Alan Cowell, Russia Redraws Lines of Diplomacy.
32. Moscow Times: Edward Lozansky, Syria Can Help Reset Relations.
33. BBC Monitoring” Russian state TV commentator mocks idea of USA’s ‘exceptionality’
34. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Moscow to impose barriers to trade with Kiev.

LONG ITEM

35. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Moscow Government Daily Interviews Head of Presidential Staff Sergey Ivanov.