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Johnson’s Russia List
2013-#2
3 January 2013
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POLITICS

1. New York Times: Putin Orders Change in Election Rules.
2. Moscow Times: Putin’s New Year’s Address Prompts Speculation About His Health.
3. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Vladimir Putin accused of creating gerontocracy.
4. Bloomberg editorial: Putin Declares War on Orphans, NGOs and the U.S.
5. www.foreignpolicy.com: Ian Bremmer, The world’s most powerful people. Is Vladimir Putin the Most Powerful Person in the World?
6. New book: Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin.
7. Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin. CHAPTER ONE: WHO IS MR. PUTIN?
8. BBC Monitoring: Opposition leaders say hard times await Russian democratic movement
9. ITAR-TASS: Organizers of January 13 Opposition action seek to march through Bolotnaya Square.
10. Interfax: Moscow to keep Lenin Mausoleum for now – Kremlin official.
11. Newsweek.com: Owen Matthews, The End of Putinomics. A dozen years of prosperity and stability have kept Russia’s leader wildly popular. Now his whole world is about to collapse.
12. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Why We Probably Shouldn’t Pay Attention to Owen Matthews’ Prediction of Russia’s Imminent Economic Collapse.
13. http://libcom.org: Russian prisoners fight-back against corrupt and brutal screws.
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Top 10 sports events in Russia in 2012.

ECONOMY

15. Financial Times: Russian oil output driven to fresh high.
16. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, A Further Clarification on Russian Capital Flight from Alexander Ivlev, Managing Partner for Ernst and Young Russia.
17. Russia Now: MBA courses boom in Russian business schools.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines: More Russian tourists venture abroad.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

19. RIA Novosti: Fyodor Lukyanov, Sergei Lavrov ­ Russian Politics’ Person of the Year.
20. BBC Monitoring: US fiscal cliff deal short-term solution, Russian pundits say.
21. Interfax: Russian diplomat sees possible ‘political risks’ in OECD entry talks.
22. Washington Post: Katrina vanden Heuvel, A new Cold War?
23. Christian Science Monitor: Is Russia trying a dead whistle-blower because of a US law?
24. RIA Novosti: US Senate Appeals to Russia to Reconsider Adoption Law.
25. Financial Times editorial: A Magnitsky law for Europe. The US statute is a pro-Russian, not anti-Russian, act.
26. RIA Novosti: Natalia Antonova, The Dima Yakovlev Law ­ A Crying Shame.
27. Bloomberg: Russian Orphan Teo Caught as Putin Blocks U.S. Adoptions.
28. AP: Depardieu, in tax fight, gets Russian citizenship.
29. BBC Monitoring: Putin grants veteran French actor Depardieu Russian citizenship.
30. Washington Post: Why Depardieu has a friend in Putin.
31. National Public Radio (NPR): On Multiple Fronts, Russian Jews Reshape Israel.
32. RIA Novosti: Lavrov to Discuss Ukraine’s Participation in Post-Soviet Customs Bloc.
33. ITAR-TASS: Ukrainian speaker suggests referendum on Russian language.
34. Civil Georgia: Ivanishvili’s New Year Message.