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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#93 :: 23 May 2013
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POLITICS

1. Kennan Institute (DC): The Turning Point for Russia Will Be a Higher Proportion of People on the Internet. (interview with Andrey Miroshnichenko)
2. Los Angeles Times: Global Voices: The six personalities of Russia’s Putin. (interview with Fiona Hill)
3. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, May 23, 2013.
4. Government.ru: The Government one year on: facts and figures.
5. BBC Monitoring: New public TV channel speculates about Russian PM’s future.
6. Interfax: Putin spokesman praises ex-deputy PM Surkov’s legacy, defends ‘pro-state’ cinema.
7. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Sergei Prikhodko is appointed as deputy prime minister.
8. Interfax: Medvedev: govt officials should share economic risks by keeping money in Russia.
9. Moskovskiye Novosti: Commentary on Russian Government Performance Sees Cabinet Hampered by Lack of ‘Instruments’
10. Kommersant: Ex-Minister’s Quick Comeback Seen Unlikely After Attack on Ruling Party. (Kudrin)
11. www.opendemocracy.net: Grigorii Golosov, Join the party! (re election system)
12. Moscow Times: Why Navalny Will Most Likely Be Convicted.
13. www.russiatoday.com: Bolotnaya case continues: Russian police search homes of more opposition activists.
14. Moscow Times: Amnesty Report Slams ‘Repressive Legislation’
15. Interfax: Pundit says Islamism greatest threat to Russia’s national security.
16. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Aftermath of Serdyukov rule: Sergei Shoigu makes report at State Duma.
17. Wall Street Journal: Slow Growth Could Delay Russia Military Spending.
18. Interfax: Medvedev still against govt involvement in media.
19. Kennan Institute: Meeting Report. The Future of Investigative Journalism in Russia.

ECONOMY

20. Reuters: Russia’s commitment to new budget rule already in doubt.
21. www.russiatoday.com: Russia luxury car tax seen as another step towards social justice.
22. Moscow Times: Vladislav Inozemtsev, Russia Declares New ‘Cold War’ in Its Far North.
23. Moscow Times: Students Favor State Firms as Employers.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

24. Moscow Times: Attitudes to Russia Worsening, Poll Says.
25. ITAR-TASS: Putin finds it very important to pool efforts to ensure equal security in Euro-Atlantic space.
26. www.russiatoday.com: Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations.
27. RIA Novosti: Missile Defense Obstructs Nuclear Forces Cuts – General.
28. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Vasily Kashin, Despite Cheap Wigs, the CIA Are Big Spenders.
29. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Kremlin ‘outraged’ by electoral fraud… in Eurovision song contest. Allegations of voter fraud in Russia are nothing new. But this time it’s the Kremlin making them.
30. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: South Caucasus Puzzle. Russia’s Actions Do Not Attest to A Readiness for Changes in Its Underbelly.
31. Kennan Institute: Meeting Report. Why Did Russia Let the Republics Go? Revisiting the Fall of the USSR.
32. Interfax: First batches of Georgia’s Borzhomi mineral water arrive in Russia.

LONG ITEMS

33. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Part II of interview with Dmitriy Medvedev.
34. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Vice Premier Dvorkovich Interviewed on Surkov, Cabinet’s First Year, Corruption, Energy.