Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#182 :: Friday, 10 October 2013
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#182 ::11 October 2013
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POLITICS
1. Valdai Discussion Club/Vedomosti: Natalya Zubarevich, What’s Next for the Four Russias?
2. Russia! Magazine: Sean Guillory, Russia’s Widening Wealth Inequality.
3. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Economic Slowdown In One Chart.
4. www.opendemocracy.net: Andrei Kolesnikov, Governing on autopilot.
5. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 11, 2013.
6. Russia Beyond the Headlines: United Russia: Time for change? Experts advise the ruling party of Putin and Medvedev to resolve practical problems.
7. Moscow Times: Ex-Convicts Regain Right to Run in Elections.
8. Russia! Magazine: Mark Galeotti, Navalny in Context: the Blogging Bukharin?
9. Institute of Modern Russia: Maria Snegovaya, The Number of Putin’s Faces.
10. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, The Revolution Of The Nerds.
11. Institute of Modern Russia: Donald Jensen, Putin’s “Praetorian Guard”
12. Interfax: Rights activists propose applying constitution anniversary amnesty to Bolotnaya case suspects, Arctic Sunrise crew.
13. ITAR-TASS: Greenpeace activists in Pechora Sea meant good, but might have caused harm.
14. Bloomberg: Kremlin Adviser Likens Greenpeace Piracy Charge to Gang Rape.
15. Moscow Times: With 4 Months Left, Main Sochi Stadium a ‘Disaster’
16. Moscow Times: Q&A: Bachurin and ‘Stalingrad’ Galvanize Russian Film.
ECONOMY
17. ITAR-TASS: Russia is involved in first trade argument over its WTO membership.
18. Reuters: U.S. soon to overtake Russia as top oil producer.
19. ITAR-TASS: Russia plans to test US food stamp program to help its poor.
20. Reuters: Russia’s Aeroflot to launch budget airline Dobrolet.
21. Russia Direct: US debt ceiling: Ticking time bomb for the world? Russian and foreign economists discuss the implications of the U.S. debt ceiling for the rest of the world as well as possible long-term consequences for the image of the U.S. abroad.
22. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, US debt default: Russia’s experience holds a lesson. Policymakers considering the consequences of a US debt default might be well served by looking at Russia’s experience 15 years ago.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
23. Interfax: Poll suggests negative shift in Russians’ attitude to USA .
24. RIA Novosti: Fyodor Lukyanov, The US Internal Crisis and its Global Significance.
25. RIA Novosti: Simon Saradzhyan, Russia, America Struggle to Kick MAD to the Kerb.
26. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Foreign Policy Expert Examines Prospects for Thaw in US-Iranian Relations. (Lukyanov)
27. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Moscow Daily Cites Experts on Possible Future S-300 Delivery to Iran.
28. RIA Novosti: Russia Hits Back After Ukraine Threatens to Cut Gas Ties.
29. Bloomberg: Putin Leads Assault on Ukraine Favoring EU Over Russian Ties.
30. Stratfor.com: Central Asia: The Complexities of the Fergana Valley. Part 1.
31. Stratfor.com: Central Asia: Tensions Grow in the Fergana Valley. Part 2.
LONG ITEM
32. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Lavrov Interviewed on International Legal Issues, Syrian CW.