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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#181
15 October 2012
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In this issue
POLITICS
1. Bloomberg: Putin Loyalists Assert Control in Russian Regional Elections.
2. Reuters: Russian elections preserve Putin’s dominance, opponents cry foul.
3. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The voters do not show interest in the gubernatorial elections.
4. ITAR-TASS: Low turnout key feature of last Sunday’s regional elections in Russia.
5. Izvestia: OWING TRIUMPH TO WEAKNESS OF THE OPPOSITION. THE BALLOT DAY: NO MAJOR SCANDALS WERE REPORTED.
6. Kommersant: NEW ELECTIONS, OLD TECHNIQUES. OBSERVERS REPRESENTING THE OPPOSITION CALL OCTOBER 14 ELECTIONS RIGGED.
7. Izvestia: Mortal Kombat in Khimki: October’s Hottest Election Campaign.
8. ITAR-TASS: Elected local chiefs should take into account businesslike proposals of opposition – Putin.
9. Interfax: One Russia Did Well In Regional Polls But Must Not Rest On Laurels – Medvedev
10. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 15, 2012.
11. AP: Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony.
12. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Mikhail Rostovskiy, Freedom from Pussy Riot! — It Is Almost Being Thought: It is Time for the Authorities to Finally Wrap Up This Shameful Case.
13. Newsweek.com: Nina Khrushcheva, Is Vladimir Putin Czar of the Intelligentsia? Why do Russia’s thinkers celebrate Putin?
14. Moscow Times: Victor Davidoff, Witch Hunt Against Gays.
15. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, A good death.
ECONOMY
16. RIA Novosti: Utilities Russia’s Worst Nightmare – Poll.
17. Interfax: SUMMARY: Global Economic Situation Remains Uncertain, IMF Says.
18. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Western investors changed their attitude to Russia.
19. Vedomosti: Reasons Behind Capital Flight From Russia and How It Affects the Economy.
20. Interfax: Capital Outflow From Russia Will Save Economy From Overheat – Moiseyev.
21. Kommersant: Russia Not United Over Kyoto-2 Economic and Political Goals.
22. Stratfor.com: Russian Energy, Part 1: The Foundation of Power.
23. Moscow News: The Far East: Bridging the gap.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
24. Kommersant-Vlast: Moscow Weekly Rates Influence of ‘Think Tanks’ on Russian Foreign Policy.
25. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Putin Isn’t “Gaining Ground” Regardless of what Amir Taheri Says.
26. Kommersant: Russian Journalist Reports on Putin’s Meeting with Iraq’s Al-Maliki. (Andrey Kolesnikov)
27. RIA Novosti: Russian Politicians, Experts, Rights Activists Puzzled By EU’s Nobel Prize.
28. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Commemorating the Cuban Missile Crisis. Eugene Ivanov writes a personal reflection on how he learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis as a child and how his son studied it in an American high school.
29. New York Times: Church’s Muscle Helped Propel President’s Rivals to Victory in Georgia.
LONG ITEM
30. US-Russia.org: Expert Panel. How Will History Judge Putin? (with Vald Sobell, Sergei Roy, William Dunkerley, Anatoly Karlin, Patrick Armstrong, Alexei Pankin, Richard Sakwa, Alexander Rahr, and Martin Seiff)