JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List 2013-#19 – 29 January 2013
Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#19 :: 29 January 2013
E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net
JRL homepage: www.russialist.org
JRL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/russialist
JRL on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnsonRussiaLi
Support JRL: http://russialist.org/funding.php
POLITICS
1. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with CNN.
2. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Jan. 29, 2013.
3. Vedomosti: CHALLENGING CHUROV. The Russians fight for their right to challenge rigged elections.
4. RIA Novosti: Konstantin von Eggert, The Kremlin Wants Tight Control and No Surprises.
5. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Liberal governor advised by Navalny has office searched. Firebrand opposition leader Alexei Navalny may be linked to the investigation into Nikita Belykh, the head of the Kirov region.
6. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, Police corruption: all you need is trust.
7. Financial Times: Charles Clover, Putin and the monk. How much influence does Father Tikhon Shevkunov have over the Russian president?
8. Trud: STARS AND VETERAN GENERALS TO RETURN. THE ARMED FORCES RID THEMSELVES OF THE LEGACY OF ANATOLY SERDYUKOV’S REFORMS.
9. Moscow Times: Pressure Growing on Serdyukov With New Allegations.
10. Moscow News: Mark Galeotti, Damage control. The Oboronservis investigation into military corruption is massive, but limited.
11. Moscow Times: Defense Ministry Gets ‘D’ for Corruption.
12. ITAR-TASS: Analysts: Change of leadership in Dagestan will not resolve republic’s problems.
13. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Will Moscow’s Use of ‘Soft Power’ in the North Caucasus Improve the Situation or Lead to that Region’s Islamization?
14. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Magnitsky trial continuing.
15. Vedomosti: Russians Defend Darwin as Creationism Gains Strength Worldwide.
16. Moscow Times: Local Scientists Deliver Big Discoveries in 2012.
17. New York Times: Shaken but Determined, the Bolshoi Dances On.
ECONOMY
18. Financial Times: Ben Aris, Putin: time to get serious about the stock market and privatisation.
19. RIA Novosti: $60 Oil Price Will Eat up Russia’s Oil Fund - Survey.
20. Rossiiskaya Gazeta: If Currency War Breaks Out Dollar Could Drop to 25 Rubles.
21. Moscow News: G20’s relevance under question, as Russia takes the helm. Russia is leading the G20, but questions stand over the group’s relevance in a time of crisis.
22. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Jingdong Hua and Janamitra Devan, How Russia Can Lead the G20.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
23. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexei Mukhin, Russia in the global context.
24. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: RELOAD IS OVER. WHAT NOW? It is time to upgrade the Russian-American agenda.
25. Moscow Times: Alexei Pankin, The Kremlin Needs Smart PR.
26. RIA Novosti: Russia Hires Goldman Sachs to Polish Investment Image.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Dmitri Trenin, Revising the concept of Eurasia. In Russia, Eurasia is usually assumed to mean the post-Soviet space. The integration project Moscow has been actively promoting over the past four years is even called the Eurasian Union. However, the interpretation of Eurasia as the territory of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is now outdated.
28. New Eastern Europe: A New Role For Eastern Europe? A conversation with Mikhail Ilyin, Russian political scientist and expert in political systems and foreign policy.
29. www.opendemocracy.net: Ben Judah, Why Russia is not losing Siberia.
30. Moscow News: Russian refugees: strangers in a strange land. A suicide highlights the reality of obtaining asylum.
31. Asia Times: M K Bhadrakumar, Russia, China grapple with Mali’s future.
32. RIA Novosti: Russia Expands ‘Blacklist’ Targeting Americans – Lavrov.
33. Wall Street Journal: Garry Kasparov, The Still-Clenched Fist in Moscow. Congress’s Magnitsky Act sanctions Kremlin officials, but enforcement is up to the Obama State Department.