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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#21 :: 31 January 2013
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POLITICS

1. Interfax: Important to maintain demographic trend, ensure Russian population growth to 145 mln by 2025 – Medvedev.
2. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia adopts major bill to ban smoking in public places.
3. BBC Monitoring: Russian ex-finance minister tipped to be premier before long.
4. Moscow TImes/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Jan. 31, 2013.
5. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Indifference Not Support ‘Foundation’ of Putin’s Regime, Gudkov Says.
6. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses controversial State Duma bills.
7. Human RIghts Watch: Russia: Worst Crackdown Since Soviet Era. Government Should Stop Pressure, Reprisals on Civil Society.
8. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Low Press Freedom Index ‘Fair’ – Media Community.
9. Vedomosti: Riot Police Stand By and Watch Attack on LGBT Activists.
10. RIA Novosti: Volgograd to Regain Stalin’s Name For Battle Anniversary.
11. International Herald Tribune: Oliver Bullough, Medals and Memories. The Russian obsession with World War II.
12. Moscow Times: Marilyn Murray, Pain of World War II Is Passed On to Children.
13. Smithsonian.com: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II. In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga.

ECONOMY

14. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia’s government promises prosperity by the year 2030.
15. RIA Novosti: Russia Must Tap Investment Potential -­ Putin.
16. ITAR-TASS: Medvedev sets task of ensuring Russian’s economic growth on new technology base.
17. Reuters: Russian cbank rebuffs Putin’s call for easy money.
18. Moscow Times: Titov Laments Status of Small Businesses.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

19. Interfax: Sympathies of Russians for West increased in a year – poll.
20. Interfax: Russians becoming more favorable to Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus – poll.
21. Interfax: Russian senator, pundit welcome US Senate confirmation for John Kerry.
22. RIA Novosti: US-Russian Projects Honored for Boosting Bilateral Ties.
23. www.foreignpolicy.com: Biden and Donilon preparing for new nuclear discussions with Russia.
24. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia abrogated an agreement with the United States over the cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries.
25. Christian Science Monitor: Anti-drug pact latest casualty of souring US-Russian relations.
26. Interfax: Russian-U.S. relations in drug control are on the rise – FSKN.
27. Interfax: Russia seeks new models of cooperation with U.S. – foreign policy expert. (Lukyanov)
28. RIA Novosti: US NGOs’ Decision To Move Russian Staff Divides Observers.
29. RIA Novosti: Russian Ambassador: Adoption Ban ‘Didn’t Appear From Nowhere’
30. Moscow Times: Russians Not Lining Up to Adopt Americans.
31. Economist.com: Russian politics. The Kremlin’s new Anti-Americanism.
32. RIA Novosti: Russia Slams Clinton’s “Bias” Over Moscow’s Syria Position.
33. US-Russia.org: Expert Discussion Panel. Can the West and Russia find a common approach to the Arab Spring?
34. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, Spain Could Collapse Like the U.S.S.R.
35. Interfax: Georgia vows to keep seeking EU, NATO membership.
36. Business New Europe: Georgia’s new govt looks to press “reset” in Russia relations.

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