JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List 2013-#18 – 28 January 2013

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POLITICS

1. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Dmitry Medvedev analyses in interview with the media his presidency and comments on the Magnitsky case.
2. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: MEDVEDEV’S REASONABLE EXPEDIENCY. A brief analysis of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s interviews.
3. ITAR-TASS: President Putin is not dictating government’s decisions ­- Medvedev.
4. Interfax: Russian civil, administrative laws are quite modern – Medvedev.
5. Government.ru: Neue Zurcher Zeitung interviews Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
6. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview in Davos with the Vesti v Subbotu (News on Saturday) programme by the Rossiya television network.
7. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Jan. 28, 2013.
9. Moscow Times: ‘We Live in Russia, Not Sodom and Gomorrah’
10. The Nation: The Russian Optimist: An Interview With Opposition Rocker Yuri Shevchuk.
11. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russians Dream of Joy and Life Without Putin.
12. New York Times: Masha Gessen, Diversionary Politics. Is Moscow Setting the Russian Opposition’s Agenda?
13. Bloomberg: ‘Kafkaesque’ Trial of Dead Hermitage Lawyer Starts in Moscow.
14. Interfax: State Duma may put “Pozner law” on hold.
15. Interfax: Authorities against legalization of handguns.
16. Moscow Times: ‘Millionaire’ Doctors Part of Solution to Demographic Problem.
17 Moscow Times: Vysotsky’s Iconic Status Endures for 75th Birthday.

ECONOMY

18. Interfax: Dmitry Medvedev doesn’t rule out introducing progressive personal income tax, but not soon.
19. Interfax: Privatizations should be done in Russia, but infrastructure needs to be readied – Putin.
20. Moscow Times: Danila Bochkarev, Why Gazprom May Go From Lion to Mouse
21. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Eurozone crisis promotes Russia-EU economic integration.
22. Sean’s Russia Blog/Russian Reporter: Andrei Veselov, A Worker’s Struggle. How an attempt to create a real labor union lands you in a penal colony.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

23. www.russiatoday.com: ‘No flexibility yet’ in Russia-US relations ­ PM Medvedev.
24. Interfax: Medvedev: U.S. Magnitsky Act, Russia’s response do not benefit relations between countries.
25. ITAR-TASS: Russia, US can start concrete missile defence talks after Kerry’s appointment. (Sergei Rogov)
26. Moscow Times: In Protest, U.S. Quits Working Group.
27. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: TAKING APART THE STAGE SET. THE UNITED STATES QUIT THE WORKING GROUP ON CIVIL SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAN-RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION.
28. Moscow TImes: Fyodor Lukyanov, Don’t Expect Reset 2.0 During Obama’s 2nd Term.
29. Voice of America: James Brooke, Obama II Downgrades Relations With Russia’s Kremlin?
30. Moscow Times: Richard Lourie, America’s Poor Grasp of Putinology.
31. The San Diego Union-Tribune: Sergei Malkhosyan, ANOTHER VIEW ON RUSSIAN BAN ON U.S. ADOPTIONS.
32. ITAR-TASS: Moscow intends to expand its Arctic zone.
33. Reuters: Russia says Assad’s prospects fading.
34. www.russiatoday.com: World powers, Iran need to end quarrels, start talking – Lavrov.
35. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine flares.