Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#4 :: 6 January 2014
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#4 :: 6 January 2013
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POLITICS
1. The Voice of Russia: Christmas greetings from Metropolitan Juvenaly: Russian people always respond to other people’s misfortunes.
2. The Voice of Russia: Russia celebrates Christmas Eve.
3. Moscow Times: Channel One Leads in Putin’s New Year Address Ratings.
4. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What you need to know about safety in Russia.Most Russian cities are generally safe by international standards but being street smart never harmed a visitor.
5. In Moscow’s Shadow: Mark Galeotti, Volgograd’s second bombing demonstrates terrorists’ strengths and weaknesses.
6. ITAR-TASS: Russia tightens control over SIM-card sales.
7. Interfax: Rights activists to work for judicial, penitentiary system reform in 2014 – Moscow Helsinki Group chair.
8. www.opendemocracy.net: Ben Judah, Immigrant hunters, paedophile safaris and drug addict cowboys.
9. AFP: Ex-oil tycoon vows Russia prisoners fight.
10. World Socialist Web Site: Peter Schwarz, Why Berlin is active on behalf of the Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky.
11.The Globe and Mail (Canada): Mark Mackinnon, Gay Russia’s choice: Back to the closet or pack it in.
12. New York Times: Putin Eases Protest Ban in Sochi for the Olympics.
13. Los Angeles Times: WINTER TV PREVIEW. Winter Olympics will push quirky bounds, and NBC will be there. New sports, such as team figure skating, will be introduced at Winter Olympics. NBC has big plans, but politics and geography create challenges.
14. Moscow Times: Mitt Romney Says Sochi Games Likely to Be Safe.
15. www.russiatoday.com: US offers ‘closer cooperation’ on security, Russia vows Olympics are safe.
16. Russia Direct: Hosting the Sochi Olympics is all about soft power. The latest survey of global soft power from Monocle and the Institute for Government offers a blueprint for Russia to follow after the conclusion of the Winter Olympics.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Lenta.ru: Martin Amis talks give his impressions of Russia.
ECONOMY
18. Moscow Times: Billionaire Usmanov Still Russia’s Richest Man.
19. Wall Street Journal: Bank of Russia 2014 Outlook.
20. AP: Russia’s First WTO Dispute Targets EU Duties.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
21. Russia Direct: Dmitry Evstafiev, Five foreign policy events to look forward to in 2014. The Russia EU Summit and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan are just two of the foreign policy events to monitor in the year ahead.
22. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: West has been Against the Slavs for a Millenium, IMEMO Expert Says. (Vladimir Olenchenko)
23. The BRICS Post: Mark LeVine, American-Russian ties in 2014: Shared goals, different approaches.
24. Russia Direct: Top 5 exchange programs for U.S.-Russia leaders. Russia Direct selects the top 5 U.S.-Russia educational exchange programs based on interviews with program coordinators and alumni.
25. Wall Street Journal editorial: Obama’s Magnitsky Walkback. The U.S. reneges on promises to sanction Russian rights abusers.
26. www.russiatoday.com: Alexander Yakovenko, Russia, UK kept up a positive momentum in 2013.
27. Barents Observer: Russia loses the Arctic?
28. ITAR-TASS: Several dozen thousand people gather for opposition meeting on Kiev’s Maidan
29. AFP: Ukrainian novelist Kurkov backs ‘school for revolution’ protests.
