Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#10 :: 14 January 2014

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#10 :: 14 January 2013
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POLITICS

1. Interfax: Duma may consider daylight savings bill early next week – health committee head.
2. ITAR-TASS: Winter finally back in European Russia.
3. ITAR-TASS: Neo-lib ideas putting brake on Russia’s economic growth, veteran politician says.
4. Moscow Times: Familiar Questions to be Posed at Gaidar Forum This Week.
5. The Voice of Russia: Dmitry Babich, Myths about Russia: Is something wrong with Russians or with Western expectations about them?
6. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Which Russian Cities are Withering Away?
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Translation challenges the brightest minds Top translators of Tolstoy and Pelevin talk to RBTH about misunderstandings, cultural differences and how not to get lost in translation.
8. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, Jan. 14, 2014.
9. Moscow Times: Spring Duma Session Opens With Call to Support Economic Growth.
10. Moscow Times: Delayed Regulation Leaves Door Open to Corrupt Officials.
11. ITAR-TASS: The “against all” entry might soon be returned to ballot paper. Russian Press Review.
12. Kommersant: Regions Ready to Abandon Mayoral Elections. The local government reform is flooded with proposals.
13. opendemocracy.net: Now I’m a union man. In both Soviet and more recent times, Russia’s trade unions have tended to be an arm of the regime, but Grigory Tumanov argues that a growing independent movement is becoming a significant force in the country.
14. ITAR-TASS: RPR-PARNAS Party is in crisis. Russian Press Review.
15. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Defense Tsar Wants ‘Optimistic News Factory’
16. RIA Novosti: Investigators and Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Clash Over Travel Ban.
17. ITAR-TASS: Moscow court to select new panel of jurors to review journalist murder case. (Anna Politkovskaya)
18. Interfax: Pussy Riot’s Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina plan to support women held in Nizhny Novgorod prison.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian Orthodox priest meets Pussy Riot.
20. Bloomberg: Putin Overhaul of Science Risks Final Blow to Soviet-Era Machine.
21. Interfax: Russia plans to spend 8 trillion rubles in seven years to fight crime, ensure public safety.
22. Moscow Times: Ahead of Olympics, Russians Urged to Help Prevent Attacks.
23. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, Our Own Bin Laden.
24. Moscow Times: The Price of One Day in Russia’s Summer Capital.
25. RIA Novosti: US Team Looks to Continue Resurgence at Sochi Olympics.
26. Bloomberg: HIV Epidemic Plagues Russia as Government Rejects Prevention Methods.
27. The Nation: Adam Federman, How US Evangelicals Fueled the Rise of Russia’s ‘Pro-Family’ Right. An alliance is born between anti-gay, anti-abortion American groups and the Russian Orthodox Church.

ECONOMY

28. ITAR-TASS: Russia heatedly debates two approaches to future economic growth.
29. Business New Europe: Peter Elam Hakansson, Russia has promise in 2014.
30. ITAR-TASS: Russian budget has earned around 2 billion rubles on amnesty. Russian Press Review.
31. ITAR-TASS: Deputy PM: New mobilization plan of Russian economy comes into effect.
32. Interfax: Moscow expects explanations from Brussels regarding talks on South Stream – Chizhov

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

33. Valdai Discussion Club/Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Andrei Kortunov, We Are Still Too Divided to Move Forward.
34. ITAR-TASS: Top Russian, US diplomats discuss situation around Syria, Iran. Russian Press Review.
35. Reuters: US has concerns about Iran-Russia oil-for-goods swap reports.
36. Carnegie Moscow Center: Mikhail Krutikhin, A Monkey Wrench, Made in Russia. (re Iran)
37. Interfax: Russia-EU summit may become a “suitable moment” for progress on visas – Russian envoy.
38. Carnegie Moscow Center: Lilia Shevtsova, Russia-EU Summits: Loveless Rendezvous.
39. The New Times: The Kremlin’s Former PR Adviser Talks. Advice of an Onlooker: What determines a country’s image. (Angus Roxburgh)
40. Moscow Times: Alexander Petrov, Improving Russia’s Image in the U.S.
41. Moscow TImes: Expulsion of U.S. Journalist Sparks Controversy Before Olympics.
42. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, David Satter’s Expulsion Is Unjustifiable And The US Should Play Hardball To Get It Overturned
43. ITAR-TASS: Russian ex-finance minister sees risks in extending Russia loans to Ukraine. (Kudrin)
44. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Moscow has Lost Ukraine, Gromov Advisor Says.
45. ITAR-TASS: Checkpoints on Russian-Georgian border to start working 24/7 January 15.