JRL E-Mail Newsletter Table of Contents :: Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#87 :: 13 May 2013

Map of Russia

[check back for updates, including additional links; links also posted to facebook and twitter]

Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#87 :: 13 May 2013
E-Mail: davidjohnson@starpower.net

A project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George
Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs: www.ieres.org
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. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Maria Lipman and Nikolai Petrov, What Lies Ahead for Russia in the Next Decade.
2. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Two Russias -­ Moscow and the Rest ­- Once Again Eye Each Other Warily.
3. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Population Isn’t Shrinking (It’s Growing Very, Very Slowly)
4. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, In Russia The Money Is Mostly Where The People Aren’t
5. www.russiatoday.com: Russia calculates costs of the long holidays in 2013.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, May 13, 2013.
7. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Duma Aide Sees Russia ‘Stronger, Stabler, Smarter, Richer’ After First Year of Putin’s Third Term. (Vyacheslav Nikonov)
8. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Rise and Fall of Surkov’s Sovereign Democracy.
9. BBC Monitoring: Russian Dozhd TV mulls theories for Deputy PM Surkov’s ‘resignation’
10. BBC Monitoring: Russian radio pundit sheds no tears for ex-Deputy PM Surkov.
11. Moscow Times: Victor Davidoff, Why Stalin Would Be Proud of Putin.
12. www.opendemocracy.net: Daniel Treisman, Recycling old Soviet chestnuts.
13. ITAR-TASS: Administrative case opened against Golos regional organization for non-registration as foreign agent.
14. Washington Post: Battle for Russia’s political future plays out in provincial courtroom. (re Navalny)
15. BBC Monitoring: Editor says defeating Russians’ ‘inferiority complex’ new History TV’s task
16. Moscow Times: Corruption and Control Define Russia’s Border Zones.
17. Valdai Dicussion Club: Is it possible to stop the flow of migrants to Russia? (Interview with Natalya Zubarevich)
18. New York Times: One Man Against the Kremlin. (William Browder)
19. Reuters: Russia’s gays fear more violence after brutal murder.

ECONOMY

20. Moscow Times/Reuters: EBRD Says Russian Slowdown to Drag Down Regional Growth.
21. Interfax: Naryshkin wants partial amnesty of people convicted for economic crimes.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Ombudsman asks amnesty for white-collar crime. Advocate for entrepreneurs Boris Titov proposes an amnesty for businessmen guilty of economic crimes that would grant Khodorkovsky his freedom back.
23. Moscow Times: Auditors Pore Over Gazprom Books
24. AFP: Cloud computing is silver lining for Russian firms.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

25. ITAR-TASS: Putin’s letter of response to Obama not ready yet.
26. Interfax: Resumption of 2+2 talks between Russia and U.S. topical, but no decision made yet – Ryabkov.
27. The American Interest: Nicolai Petro, The Values Trap.
28. New York Times: JAMES F. COLLINS, ROSS A. VIRGINIA and KENNETH YALOWITZ, Hands Across the Melting Ice
29. Interfax: Saakashvili compares his political opponents to Caligula.
30 .Washngton Post: U.S., Russia finding room to talk.
31. Wall Street Journal: GARRY KASPAROV, A Shared Enemy Does Not Mean Shared Values. The Kerry-Putin meeting aside, common ground between Russia and America is a myth.
32. US-Russia.org: Expert Discussion Panel. What are the prospects for effective US-Russia anti-terror cooperation in the wake of the Boston bombings?

Comment