Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#190 :: Wednesday, 23 October 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#190 :: 23 October 2013
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POLITICS

1. Interfax: Muscovites generally happy, 5% feel fear, anxiety – poll.
2. St. Petersburg Times: Russia Cracks Down on Smoking, Drinking.
3. The National Interest: James Carden, Why Russians Still Don’t Hate Communism.
4. www.opendemocracy.net: Cynicism as a ruling ideology. Is cynicism the glue that keeps Russia’s regime from falling apart? Alexei

Levinson introduces a new series on openDemocracy Russia.
5. RIA Novosti: US Defunds Venerable Russian Studies Program.
6. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Is Russia Turning Muslim?
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 23, 2013.
8. RIA Novosti: Putin Makes Local Governors Responsible for Ethnic Relations.
9. BBC Monitoring: Putin says local officials must do more to stop ethnic unrest.
10. Moscow News: Police find 2,000 flats with illegal migrants in Moscow’s Biryulyovo.
11. RIA Novosti: Volgograd Bus Bomb Victims Laid to Rest as Police Hunt Bomber’s Husband.
12. Interfax: Detectives suspect suicide bomber’s husband of connection to Volgograd bombing.
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta : Volgograd bus bomber was trying to reach Moscow. Investigators are trying to

find out the terrorist’s motives.
14. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s State Duma may make terrorists’ relatives pay for damage done.
15. Svobodnaya Pressa: Russian Experts Predict Continuing Terrorist Acts Ahead of Sochi Olympics.
16. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s Interior Minister talks on state of immigration in Russia.
17. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses ethnic policies, election reform.
18. Moscow Times: ‘Unmanageable’ Onishchenko to Be Fired Upon Medvedev’s Return.
19. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, Moscowstan.
20. www.opendemocracy.net: Lyubov Borusyak, ‘And the winner is” (re television)

ECONOMY

21. Interfax: IMF urges Russia to reform economic policy.
22. Interfax: Kudrin says Russian economy cannot do without migrants.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Shale revolution hits Russian exporters.
24. Interfax: World forecast for nuclear plant construction back to pre-Fukushima level – Rosatom.
25. Business New Europe: Mickey Mouse coming to Moscow in 2014.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
26. Moscow Times: In China, Medvedev Seals Deals and Praises Weightlifting.
27. ITAR-TASS: Russian PM tells Chinese students about Russian beauties and Moscow traffic.
28. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia-China energy alliance gaining momentum.
29. China Daily: Neighborly harmony.
30. The Asian Age (India): Commentary Says Relative Decline of US Power Leading to India-Russia-China ‘Strategic Triangle’
31. Interfax: Shoigu proposed NATO partners to keep cooperation on Afghanistan priority for 2014.
32. ITAR-TASS: Russian ambassador: Moscow-Washington cooperation much more fruitful than widely thought.
33. Izvestia: Turkish-Russian Relations Improvement, Turkey’s Ongoing EU Aspirations Predicted.
34. CNBC.com: Anna Andrianova, Russia takes a page out of the US playbook.
35. New York Times: Russia Putting a Strong Arm on Neighbors.
36. ITAR-TASS: Shuvalov: Russia-Ukraine trade should develop despite AA agreement with EU.
37. Interfax: Criminal proceedings against Saakashvili cannot be ruled out – Georgian PM.
38. Carnegie Moscow Center: Thomas de Waal, Georgia: Surprises Ahead?

LONG ITEM

39. The Vineyard of the Saker: 1993-2013: is the twenty years long “pas de deux” of Russia and the USA coming to an end?