JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List 2013-#78 – 25 April 2013

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#78 :: 25 April 2013
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POLITICS

1. RIA Novosti: Putin Sets New Q&A Session Record
2. Reuters: Russia’s Putin signals will not sack PM over economy.
3. www.russiatoday.com: Putin on Boston bombings: We suffered from terrorists almost never labeled such in the West.
4. Reuters: Putin says Russia, U.S. work on security after Boston bombs.
5. Moscow News: Putin denies accusations of Stalinism.
6. RIA Novosti: CIA Officers Advised Russia’s Privatization Minister – Putin.
7. Moscow Times: Putin Fields Questions in Nationwide Call-In Show (Live).
8. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, April 25, 2012.
9. Interfax: Analysts split on whether Russian govt is facing dismissal soon.
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Putin’s third term: Bolstering a faltering grip. In the absence of significant economic achievements, Vladimir Putin is trying to consolidate support on the basis of conservative values.
11. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Presidential decrees are hardly implemented.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian pundits: United Russia’s future in limbo. As United Russia’s reputation continues to suffer and Vladimir Putin voices increasing support for his People’s Front, what’s in store for the ruling party?
13. Politkom.ru: Boris Makarenko, The Devaluation of Medvedev. What Is the Reason for the Sustained Attack on the Premier?
14. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Aleksandra Samarina and Petr Tverdov: Patriotism — Unadorned and Un-Damned. The Country Lacks Civilized Parties of a Nationalist Persuasion.
15. Interfax: Activists complain NGOs spend more time gathering documents for inspections than helping people.
16. RIA Novosti: Russia Election Watchdog Fined, Fears Closure. (Golos)
17. Moscow News: Prosecutors checking Levada Center pollster as part of NGO inspections.
18. AP: Key witness in Navalny case goes back on own words.
19. Vedomosti: Jailed Oil Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovskiy Writes Letter in Support of Opposition’s Navalnyy
20. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, Putin’s Bolotnoye Show Trial.
21. RIA Novosti: Russian MP Slams Foreign Human Rights Bodies’ Reports Criticizing Country.
22. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, The Ponomaryov Principle.
23. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The education minister faces an uncertain future.
24. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Demographic Decline.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. Author and longtime Russian expert George Feifer turns conventional wisdom on its head and explains the ways in which Russians are free and Americans are dully imprisoned.

TSARNAEV

26. Reuters: Father of Boston bomb suspects plans U.S. trip to bury son.
27. Wall Street Journal: Tsarnaev’s Six-Month Visit to Dagestan Is Scrutinized.
28. New York Times: Boston Attack Spotlights Struggle Half a World Away.
29. Russia Beyond the Headlines: FBI and FSB probe Boston bombers links in Caucasus.
30. Moscow Times: Jihadist Websites Played Role in Boston Bombing.
31. Washington Post: The obscure Russian jihadist whom Tamerlan Tsarnaev followed online. (Gadzhimurad Dolgatov)
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Sergei Markedonov, Reassessing the Caucasus after Boston explosion.
33. Global Post: In Dagestan, US blamed for Boston bombing.
34. Rossiyskaya Gazeta:Yevgeniy Shestakov: Al-Qa’ida With Plus and Minus Signs. If ‘Bad’ Terrorists Have Been Detained in Canada, Are ‘Good’ Ones Operating in Syria?
35. Financial Times: Thomas de Waal, Russia Must Let the World Into Chechnya.
36. www.foreignpolicy.com: J.M. Berger, Boston’s Jihadist Past. Long before the marathon bombing, Islamists in Massachusetts were helping militants in Chechnya.
37. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Chechen strongman corrects his minister – with a boxing glove to the head. Ramzan Kadyrov’s sparring match ostensibly good-natured ‘criticism’ of the minister’s job performance is seen by some as reflective of the darker undertones of Kadyrov’s hard rule.

ECONOMY

38. Kommersant: Civil Initiatives Committee’s Kudrin Calls for ‘Predictability’ in Russia’s Economic Policy.
39. Moscow Times: U.S Investors Underline Importance of Trade Ties Over Political Rifts.
40. Buiness New Europe: Ben Aris, PERSPECTIVE: Russia clowns about.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

41. Russia Beyond the Headlines/RIA Novosti: Magnitsky List ensnares Moscow, Obama and Congress. Fyodor Lukyanov, the chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, explains why the Magnitsky Act will have long-term consequences on U.S.-Russia relations.
42. www.thenation.com: Robert Dreyfuss, Wanted: US-Russia Deal on Syria.
43. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russian Presidential Special Envoy on Prospects for Afghan Settlement.
44. Interfax: Russian Afghan veterans warn NATO against mistakes in pullout from Afghanistan.