Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#16 :: 24 January 2014

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#16 :: 24 January 2013
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POLITICS

1. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Komsomolskaya Pravda.: Putin’s press secretary gets personal. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, tells the Russian media about why he blushes when Putin talks about Russian history.
2. ITAR-TASS: Russian protest potential ebbs.
3. The New York Herald: Black Flags Fly All Over Russia To Mourn Lenin.
4. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, Jan. 24.
5. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with representatives of Russian human rights community.
6. Kremlin.ru: Meeting on healthcare development.
7. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: The Kremlin’s Disturbing Reading List for Russia’s Political Elite.
8. Interfax: Corruption in defense industry is like high treason – Rogozin.
9. ITAR-TASS: RPR-PARNAS to insist Navalny refuses from radical nationalism, left course.
10. Moscow Times: Business Unimpressed by Khodorkovsky Release.
11. Moscow Times: Lebedev to Walk Free After 10 Years.
12. ITAR-TASS: Lawyers to press for annulment of multibillion fine for Khodorkovsky, Lebedev.
13. Moscow Times: The Moscow News Stops Print Edition.
14. ITAR-TASS: State Duma appeals for abiding by Olympic Truce.
15. Interfax: Some 60 foreign leaders to attend Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi – Kremlin aide.
16. R-Sport: Russia Aims to Win Medals in 11 of 15 Olympic Sports -­ Zhukov.
17. New York Times: Bolshoi Theater Names New Music Director.

ECONOMY

18. ITAR-TASS: Slump of Russian ruble continues. Russian Press Review.
19. RIA Novosti: Ruble Hits Historical Low Against Euro.
20. Moscow Times: Number of New Companies Set Up in Russia Grew 3.3% in 2013.
21. Vestnik Kavkaza: BRICS dozing, not dead ­- Russian Vice PM. (Arkady Dvorkovich)
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines/RBCdaily: Davos experts urge Russia to focus on regional development. A report unveiled at Davos suggests that regional development is the best economic growth strategy for Russia.
23. Moscow News: Delivery companies drop service to Russia over new customs laws.
24. Reuters: Russia to double oil, gas flows to Asia by 2035-draft document.
25. ITAR-TASS: Russia-EU agreements on South Stream not revised or cancelled.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

26. ITAR-TASS: Putin to participate in Russia-EU summit in Brussels on January 28.
27. Interfax: EU, Russia need frank discussion of European, Eurasian integration – Ushakov.
28. Helsinki Times (Finland): Richard Donald Lewis, Russia and the EU.
29. www.russiatoday.com: Alexander Yakovenko, Why Russia cares about human rights in the West.
30. ITAR-TASS: Russia set to take fingerprints from all arriving foreigners.
31. ITAR-TASS: Snowden ponders possible prolongation of his stay in Russia. Russian Press Review.
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Proposed reforms will not stop pervasive N.S.A. snooping. Russian experts say Obama’s initiatives to reform the U.S. surveillance do not go far enough.
33. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian teenager wrongly labelled as author of Kaptoxa malware.
34. Moscow Times: Michael Bohm, Why Russia Is No. 1 in Anti-Americanism.
35. Komsomolskaya Pravda: William Dunkerley, Now’s the Time to Slander Russia.
36. The Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill and Steven Pifer, Memorandum to the President. Putin’s Russia Goes Rogue.
37. Reuters: Ukraine’s president promises to reshuffle government next week.
38. Wall Street Journal: Truce in Ukraine Teeters as Deal Appears to Falter.
39. Reuters: Ukraine protesters seize building, put up more barricades.
40. ITAR-TASS: Standoff in Ukraine affects daily life in regional centers.
41. Business New Europe: Graham Stack, Government power crumbles in regions and Kyiv.
42. ITAR-TASS: Kiev needs to sift out radicals from Euro-integration supporters.
43. www.russiatoday.com: Western news on Ukraine ‘get filtered through the opposition’s lens’
44. The Economist: Protests in Ukraine. On the march in Kiev. The protests turn nasty and violent, but the president is not giving ground.
45. Business New Europe: Economist editor claims Putin told Yanukovych to “dip hands in blood.” (Edward Lucas)
46. The Guardian (UK): Ukrainian far-right group claims to be co-ordinating violence in Kiev. Pravy Sektor rejects original protesters’ goal of closer links to EU, demanding ‘national revolution’
47. www.russiatoday.com: Ukrainian opposition and the West ‘playing with fire siding with extreme nationalists’
48. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Stanislav Tkachenko, Crisis in Ukraine: A catalyst for long-overdue change? Russia and Ukraine’s future prosperity lies in developing European-style democracies. Integrating Ukraine’s economy may create a window for reform.
49. www.euractiv.com: Vadym Omelchenko, Ukraine: Everybody continue fighting infantilism. As confrontation takes extreme forms, Ukrainians should leave their illusions behind and not count on help from any side, be it the EU, Russia, the leadership or the opposition.
50. Valdai Discussion Club/Nezavisimoye Voennoe Obozrenie: Nikolai Bordyuzha, The Myths and Reality of Color Revolutions.
51. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Central Europe’s Convergence With The West Has Slowed Dramatically.