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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#178
10 October 2012
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POLITICS
1. Interfax: Health Ministry: Life expectancy in Russia reaches 70.3 years.
2. AP: Moscow appeals court frees 1 of jailed Pussy Riot members; upholds prison sentence for other 2.
3. www.russiatoday.com: Pussy Riot member released on probation, sentence upheld for 2 others.
4. The Economist: Pussy riot. Two go down, one goes free.
5. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Pussy Riot Trial, The Release Of Yekaterina Samutsevich, And Putinism.
6. RIA Novosti: ‘Hachidan’ Putin Promoted to Judo Elite
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 10, 2012.
8. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: ELECTIONS. MOST RUSSIANS DEMAND THE RETURN OF THE BOX “AGAINST ALL CANDIDATES” INTO BULLETINS.
9. Vedomosti: STRANGERS. The Muscovites think little of the Moscow municipal legislature.
10. www.russiatoday.com: Communist leader censured by comrades over ties with oligarchs and clergy.
11. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: THIRD CHECHEN WAR. Civil war continues in the Caucasus.
12. Gazeta.ru editorial: The soldier returns.
13. Christian Science Monitor: Kremlin calls in top Russian protest leader for questioning. (Sergei Udaltsov)
14. Christian Science Monitor: Nobel Peace Prize: Could a Russian win this year?
15. Interfax: Moscow Helsinki Group head criticizes Russia’s decision to tell UNICEF to close programs.
16. Moscow TImes: More Than 60% of Russians Back Online Censorship, Poll Says.
17. Interfax: Communication Ministry: Russian Internet regulation law to be ‘very soft’ and ‘creative’
18. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Putin’s Politics Police.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Phoebe Taplin, Beyond the Black Square, a brave new world. “Frozen Dreams,” the first comprehensive survey of contemporary Russian art, is ground-breaking, ambitious and thought-provoking.
20. RIA Novosti: Natalia Antonova, A Long Painful Death: Why Russia Is A Bad Place to be Terminally Ill.
21. AP:Nataliya Vasilyeva, An AP correspondent on trials of cycling in Moscow as capital splashes out to be bike-friendly.
ECONOMY
22. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The IMF gave a worse forecast for Russian GDP growth.
23. Interfax: Putin: Land market in Russia permeated with corruption.
24. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Russia to Establish New Financial Regulator.
25. Moscow Times: Martin Gilman, Russia Overtakes Portugal and Spain Is Next.
26. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Trade unions demand changes in social policy.
27. Financial Times: Sechin’s hard sell at western investors.
28. Financial Times: Putin supports TNK-BP sale plan.
29. Reuters: Russia expects tax reforms to boost oil output.
30. RIA Novosti: Russia’s Internet Market to Grow 30% in 2012 Survey.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
31. www.russiatoday.com: West looking to ‘reanimate’ Russia’s adversary image – Lavrov.
32. Interfax: Russia insists on NATO guarantees missile defense not targeted against its nuclear forces – Lavrov.
33. Voice of America: October Marks 50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis.
34. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazet: Fyodor Lukyanov, Key to U.S.-Russian long-term cooperation lies with Asia, not NATO. NATO today is neither a treacherous threat, nor a coveted partner to Russia. In fact, the oranization’s role is largely symbolic. Russia and the United States would do well to turn their gaze toward cooperation in Asia, instead.
35. RIA Novosti: Russia Walks Out of Nunn-Lugar Agreement Paper.
36. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia intends to dispose the nuclear arsenals by its own forces.
37. Moscow Times: Diplomat Criticizes Magnitsky Bill at AmCham Forum.
38. Moscow Times: Report: Romney Helped Market Cigarettes.
39. Interfax: Russia sees NATO terms on resuming control over weapons in Europe as unrealistic.
40. AFP: Russia unveils $4.2 bn Iraq arms deals.
41. Asia Times: M K Bhadrakumar, Russia bridges Middle Eastern divides.
42. ITAR-TASS: Tbilisi-Moscow relations to get slightly better after Georgian opposition takes power.
43. Novaya Gazeta: OLIGARCHIC REVOLUTIONS. LINE WAS DRAWN UNDER THE ERA OF COLOR REVOLUTIONS IN POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES.
44. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Tbilisi Now Ready for “Everything Short of Recognition” of Abkhaz and South Osetian Independence, Markedonov Says.
45. Moscow Times: Yulia Latynina, Georgian Dream Will Be Shattered.
46. Sergei Roy: Re Anatoly Karlin JRL #176, 8 October 2012. (Georgia) Johnson’s Russia List