Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#19 :: Wednesday, 29 January 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#19 :: 29 January 2013
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POLITICS

1. Moscow Times: Individual Rights Increasingly Valued by Russians, Poll Shows.
2. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What public opinion polls tell us about Russians. Recent polls show that Russians value family first and look cautiously at the West. But well over half of the population will follow the Sochi Olympics.
3. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Moskovsky Komsomolets: The President’s secret language. How to interpret the Russian president’s words correctly.
4. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, Jan. 29.
5. ITAR-TASS: Putin discusses problem of land relations with government.
6. ITAR-TASS: Head of Russian Orthodox Church calls for protection of traditional family. Russian Press Review.
7. Washington Times: Marc Bennetts, Who’s ‘godless’ now? Russia says it’s U.S., Putin seizes on issue of traditional values.
8. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russia Submitted for Analysis. Political Experts Predict to Moskovskiy Komsomolets What To Expect in the New Year.
9. Moscow Times: Billionaire Quits Business to Better Fight Kremlin. (Gleb Fetisov)
10. Interfax: Lawyers of Lebedev, Khodorkovsky think their clients could be rehabilitated, repaid legal costs.
11. ITAR-TASS: ‘Surrender Leningrad’ poll: Public wrath meets presidential council’s warning.
12. Moscow TImes: Rain or Shine, Putin Takes the Blame. (re Sochi)
13. Wall Street Journal: Sochi: The Olympics of Anxiety. As Olympics Loom, Security Concerns, Antigay Law and Construction Issues Dominate.

ECONOMY

14. Moscow Tiimes: Minister Plans Accelerated Privatization.
15. Moscow News: Russia moving away from rate control to manage declining ruble.
16. Wall Street Journal: Russia Economy Minister Says Slow Growth Is Higher Risk.
17. Interfax: Russia to set up appraisal center for WTO issues.
18. Interfax: Gazprom totally undervalued, time could be right to buy back shares – deputy CEO.
19. Moscow Times: Legal Online Video Has Inroads in Russia.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

20. Vedomosti: Sergei Karaganov and Igor Makarov, Turning East?
21. Moscow Times: Putin Rebukes EU Actions in Ukraine.
22. New York Times: Sign of a Chill: E.U. Doesn’t Set Table for Putin.
23. Kremlin.ru: Russia-EU Summit. Vladimir Putin took part in the Russia-EU summit meeting.
24. Moscow Times: PACE Threatens European Magnitsky Act.
25. Russia Direct: Mark Adomanis, Barack Obama and the reset: making the best of a bad situation. Five years past Obama’s inauguration his Russia policy is crumbling. Is there any chance for an overhaul?
26. RIA Novosti: No Evidence Snowden Spied for Russia – US Senator.
27. Interfax: Ukrainian opposition should be urged as well as govt to use civilized methods – Putin.
28. Wall Street Journal: Putin Tells Government to Fulfill Obligations to Ukraine.
29. ITAR-TASS: Russia not to drop its plans for providing loan and gas discounts to Ukraine. Russian Press Review.
30. RIA Novosti: Russia to Wait for New Ukrainian Govt Before Releasing More Aid.
31. ITAR-TASS: Ukrainian unrest jeopardizes Russian gas supply to Europe. Russian Press Review.
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Vladimir Chizhov, Ukraine as a unifying factor in Russian-EU relations. Ukraine’s decision to suspend preparations for signing an association agreement with the EU has provoked a storm of emotions in certain political and expert circles.
33. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine gvt, opposition agree to counter extremists’ attempts to destabilize situation.
34. Interfax: Russian Federation Council concerned about events in Ukraine – statement.
35. ITAR-TASS: Ukraine needs own model of development no matter who is in power – experts.
36. Christian Science Monitor: Are Ukraine’s concessions too late to satisfy protesters?
37. New York Times: Ukraine’s Uncertainties Include Financial Aid.
38. Los Angeles Time: Scott Martelle, Showdown in Kiev: What’s the Ukrainian phrase for ‘Brown Shirts?’
39. Moscow Times: Vladimir Rzyhkov, The Failing Ukrainian State.
40. Moscow Times: Oleh Havrylyshyn and Svitlana Kobzar, EU-Ukraine Alliance Will Benefit Russia, Too.
41. The National Interest: Rajan Menon, Ukraine: Is Yanukovych Finished?
42. www.russiatoday.com: Ukraine unrest timeline. (excerpt)
43. http://zyalt.livejournal.com/986689.html: Ilya Varlamov, Maidan inside out. (many photos)

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