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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#171
1 October 2012
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In this issue

POLITICS

1. ITAR-TASS: Russia marks Internet Day.
2. AP: Putin Rolls Back Protege’s Modest Liberal Legacy.
3. Financial TImes: Infighting weakens Putin’s aura of authority.
4. Argumenty Nedeli: Commentator Feels ‘Unachievability’ of Tasks Could Cost Medvedev His Premiership. (Andrey Uglanov)
5. Osobaya Bukva: Civil Society Should Fund Its Own Projects Independently, Activists Say.
6. Interfax: Lukin Calls For Distinguishing Between Espionage, Contacts With Foreigners.
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 1, 2012.
8. New York Times: The Tip of Putin’s Wedge Between Urban and Rural.
9. Washington Post: Shoring up Putin in Russian countryside.
10. Kommersant: LOCAL EMERGENCY. An update on the forthcoming elections in the Moscow region.
11. Moscow Times: Ilya Ponomaryov, Why I Lost My Right To Speak in the Duma.
12. Moscow Times: Rogozin’s Rodina Party Reinstated.
13. Moscow Times: Working Group Supports Closing Entire Websites.
14. Kommersant: Foreign Influence over the Russian Internet Grows.
15. Interfax: Nearly 40% of Russians Justify Islamic Anger With Innocence of Muslims – Poll.
16. BBC Monitoring: Russian radical leader slams mainstream opposition for ‘surrendering’ protest. (Eduard Limonov)
17. AP: Russian Orthodox Church asks for clemency for jailed Pussy Riot rockers if they repent.
18. Reuters: Russian court adjourns punk band appeal hearing.

ECONOMY

19. www.opendemocracy.net: Dmitri Travin, Russia is running out of cash.
20. The Independent (UK): Mark Dampier, Time to invest in a country that’s amazing but cheap – and that’s Russia.
21. www.russiatoday.com: High oil price: fuel for Russian manufacturing, decelerator for Europe.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Giving up oil dependence. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev promised to cut the budget loose from its dependence on oil prices, seeing this as a vital step in guaranteeing the country’s economic security.
23. AP: Natural gas drilling boom rattles Russia.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

24. RIA Novosti: USAID Stops Operations in Russia.
25. Gazeta.ru editorial: Global Cooling. Politically, Russia Is Moving Ever Farther From The West, Which Has No Opportunities To Turn This Movement Around.
26. BBC Monitoring: Pundit says Russia drifting away from Europe. (Dmitry Trenin)
27. Interfax: USA ‘Deserved’ Anti Islam Film Unrest For Its Arab Spring Support – Russian Poll.
28. Politkom.ru: Russian Commentary Sees No Possibility of ‘Good Solution’ for Syria. (Georgiy Mirskiy)
29. New York TImes: Fearing Rigged Vote, Georgians Prepare for Elections.
30. Ogonyok: NOXIOUS ROSES. Georgian society is sundered and enraged on the eve of the parliamentary election.
31. Moscow Times: Moscow Silent Ahead of Key Georgian Vote.
32. New York Times editorial: Democracy in the Former Soviet Republics.
33. Center for American Progress: Cory Welt, 5 Things You Need to Know About Georgian Parliamentary Elections.

LONG ITEM

34. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia: Transcript of the interview of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov in the “Charlie Rose Show” September 25, 2012.

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