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Johnson’s Russia List
2013-#8
14 January 2013
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In this issue
POLITICS
1. Moscow Times: Top 10 News Stories Over New Year’s Holidays.
2. ITAR-TASS: Russians “don’t notice” 90th anniversary of Soviet Union’s foundation.
3. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Jan.14, 2013.
4. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Governors openly challenge the Kremlin. In their latest regional socio-political stability rating, experts at the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation reported a certain change in the behavior of regional elites, who have apparently started to oppose the Kremlin on some high-profile issues.
5. Vedomosti: ANOTHER HOOK FOR GOVERNORS. VLADIMIR PUTIN IS TIGHTENING CONTROL OVER REGIONS.
6. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Interfax: Russians protest against U.S. Adoption Ban.
7. BBC Monitoring: Putin’s spokesman shares concern about orphans, rejects idea of Duma dissolution.
8. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Opposition march in support of the rights of parentless children attracts unexpectedly many people.
9. RIA Novosti: Russia’s US Adoption Ban Protesters Lament State TV Coverage.
10. Interfax: Human rights activist believes mass protests have a future in Russia. (Lyudmila Alekseyeva)
11. Kommersant: THE MOSCOW HELSINKI GROUP HAS RETAINED ITS HEAD. Lyudmila Alekseeva will remain the head of the Moscow Helsinki group.
12. ITAR-TASS: Russian protesting movement is not on decline, but becoming less politicized.
13. Reuters: French actor Depardieu sides with Putin, criticises opposition.
14. www.russiatoday.com: State Duma dismisses plea to reverse US adoptions ban.
15. ITAR-TASS: Proposals to speed up children’s adoption procedure should be realistic and accomplishable - Medvedev.
16. RIA Novosti: Adoptions in Russia: ‘Supply Exceeds Demand’
17. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Putin Looks Spiteful and Petty on Adoption Law.
18. Moscow Times: Serdyukov Faces ‘Suspect’ Status in Fraud Case.
19. Interfax: Confidence rating of Russian journalists grows in past two years.
20. Interfax: Detectives very close to identification of Politkovskaya murder masterminds – Markin.
22. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russia Now Faces ‘Years of Reaction,’ Moscow Commentator Says. (Nikolay Rozov)
23. Washington Post: Lenin’s tomb should stay in Red Square, Putin says.
24. The Daily Beast: Anna Nemtsova, Vladimir Putin’s Wife, Lyudmila, Has All but Vanished, and Russians Don’t Seem to Care.
25. RFE/RL: Russia’s Muddled Policy Driving Migrant Workers Into Shadows.
26. Moscow Times: Stars Dazzle With Absurdities Over Holiday Break.
ECONOMY
27. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia may face further slowdown of economic growth.
28. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Russian authorities plan to cut health spending in 2013.
29. Foirbes,com: Mark Adomanis, If You’re Looking for Economic Stagnation Don’t Look at Russia, Look At Hungary and the Czech Republic.
30. Financial Times: Russia: the ins and out of capital flight.
31. www.opendemocracy.net: Pavel Usanov, An investment wonderland? Reality checks.
32. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Privatization Destroyed Russia’s Chance for Freedom and Must Be Reversed, Pastukhov Says.
33. Moscow News: It’s a jungle out there. (re Moscow real estate)
34. AP:Gazprom’s European partners supportive of Russian gas projects but anxious for price cuts.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
35. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Fyodor Lukyanov, Revealing the geopolitical threats of 2013. The year 1913 figured as a sort of milestone for the Soviet Union and the world. Today, at the beginning of 2013, we too can sense future changes, but we are powerless to predict the path of history and we do not know where current events are taking us.
36. New York Times: Russian Lawmakers Aim at Foreign Cars, Films and Schooling in Patriotic Purge.
37. Washington Post: Sour U.S.-Russia relations threaten Obama’s foreign policy agenda.
38. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Obama’s envoy plans Moscow mission to revive the ‘reset.’ National Security Advisor Tom Donilon is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin days after Obama’s re-inauguration.
39. www.russiatoday.com: Robert Bridge, 2013: Year of redeeming the Russia-US reset?
40. The Chronicle of Philanthropy : Deana Arsenian, President Putin: Restore Openness to Nonprofit Involvement.
41. Moscow Times: Gregory Feifer, Rebuilding Radio Liberty.
42. www.russiatoday.com: Russia’s FM calls on Syrian opposition to propose ‘own’ peace plan.
43. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: LAVROV WENT TO CHERNOVTSY. An update on the meeting between Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers.
44. Interfax: Saakashvili accuses Ivanishvili team of looking to Russia.
45. Moscow Times: Paul Rimple, Conquering the World With Wine and Food.