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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#173
3 October 2012
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POLITICS

1. RIA Novosti: Tanks on Moscow’s Streets During October 1993 Revolt.
2. Moscow Times: Friends and Foes to Mark Putin’s 60th.
3. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Putin Uses Third Tenure To Implement Old Projects – Pundit. (Aleksey Mukhin)
4. Interfax: Medvedev: Firing Shots in Display of Joy Unacceptable.
5. RIA Novosti: Russia Says Won’t Treat European Foundations as it did USAID.
6. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 3, 2012.
7. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, Navalny 1, Udaltsov 0.
8. Interfax: Best Known Showbiz Opposition Figure In Russia Is Kseniya Sobchak – Poll.
9. Interfax: Poll Shows 43 Per Cent Of Russians Consider Pussy Riot Sentence Too Lenient.
10. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Three Demographic Bottlenecks for Moscow.
11. Moscow Times: Mark Gay, A Newspaper for Its Time. (re Moscow Times)
12. The New Republic: Julia Ioffe, What I Will (and Won’t) Miss About Living in Moscow.

ECONOMY

13. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Putin: Authorities will not allow crisis.
14. Interfax: Putin Sympathizes With Europe Governed By 17 Captains of Different Vessels.
15. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia’s Ministry of Finance takes decisive steps. Despite gloomy forecast about the impact that Russian former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin’s resignation may have on the country’s Finance Ministry, it has proven to be wrong.
16. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: BUDGET PROJECTIONS SHATTERED BY DRAIN OF CAPITALS. MASSIVE DRAIN OF CAPITALS FROM RUSSIA MAKES RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPOSSIBLE.
17. Moscow Times: Putin Targets Corruption at Gazprom.
18. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Russia’s Turn To Grow Slow.
19. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV sees ulterior motive in Facebook founder’s visit to Moscow.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

20. Reuters: Russia’s Lavrov says “reset” with U.S. cannot last forever.
21. Kommersant: “RELOAD COULD NOT LAST LONG.” An interview with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
22. Svobodnaya Pressa: Experts Appraise US Attitudes Toward Russia, China. (Sergey Grinyayev and Aleksandr Konovalov)
23. RIA Novosti: Council of Europe Chides Russia in New Report.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The Syrian crisis tests the UN. The UN is currently in session and discussions about the Syrian crisis are still stuck in the rut of a propaganda war. The real discussion is about how effective the international organization is and how well the UN is suited for the role of main international arbitrator between the biggest players in global politics.
25. Moscow Times: Medvedev Praises Win by Georgian Opposition.
26. ITAR-TASS: Georgia intentions to join NATO shouldn’t hamper relations with RF.
27. RIA Novosti: Georgian Dream Denies Call for President to Quit.
28. Izvestia: THEY HOPE IN GEORGIA THAT IVANISHVILI WILL RESTORE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA. Politicians are confident of the impending restoration of contacts between Tbilisi and Moscow.
29. RIA Novosti: Georgian Vote Spells No Reset with Russia ­ Analysts.
30. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV commentator welcomes outcome of Georgian election.
31. www.foreignpolicy.com: Thomas de Waal, Upset. No one really expected Georgia’s opposition to win this election. So, what now?
32. Time.com: Simon Shuster, Inside the Prison That Beat a President: How Georgia’s Saakashvili Lost His Election.
33. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Is Bidzina Ivanishvili ‘Pro-Russia?’ Mikhail Saakashvili And His Surrogates Certainly Think So!
34. Interfax: Ukrainian voters split on geopolitical, language issues – poll.

LONG ITEM

35. Kremlin.ru: VTB Capital RUSSIA CALLING! Investment Forum (with Putin Q&A)