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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#182
16 October 2012
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In this issue
POLITICS
1. Reuters: Russia launches anti-smoking crackdown.
2. Moscow News: Getting tough on drunk driving.
3. Bloomberg: Russian Middle Class to Number 74 Million by 2050, HSBC Predicts.
4. RIA Novosti: Yaroslavl: A Taste of the New Russian Politics.
5. www.russiatoday.com: Putin: Russia must be unyielding against terrorists.
6. Canada.com: Matthew Fisher, There may be more to the Arctic thaw than global warming.
7. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Oct. 16, 2012.
8. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: UNITED RUSSIA’S REVENGE. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S CONSIDERABLE RATING HELPED THE RULING PARTY IN THE OCTOBER 14 ELECTION.
9. Moskovsky Komsomolets: GIVING IN WITHOUT A FIGHT. NEW PARTIES GOT THE VOTES THAT WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE OPPOSITION OTHERWISE, AND PLAYED INTO UNITED RUSSIA’S HANDS.
10. Vedomosti editorial: MAGIC CARRIED THE DAY. THE OPPOSITION REMAINS IN NEED OF STIMULI TO PARTICIPATE IN OFFICIAL ELECTIONS.
11. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Putin’s United Russia dominates regional elections. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party took nearly every regional seat in Sunday’s elections, but most analysts say that the results were probably an accurate reflection of public sentiment.
12. Moscow Times: Putin Proclaims Renewed Mandate With United Russia Wins.
13. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Central Election Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov.
14. AP: A Look at Ways to Manipulate a Russian Election.
15. Time.com: Simon Shuster, The Managed Democracy: A How-to-Manual from Putin’s Russia. An exclusive look at a leaked 43-page document detailing the winning strategy of a ruling-party gubernatorial candidate.
16. RIA Novosti: Pundits Mull The Reasons For Opposition’s Poor Show In Russian Elections.
17. Interfax: Election Campaign Dispelled 4 Myths – Senior Figure in United Russia.
18. BBC Monitoring: Russian pundit says opposition should learn from its election failure. (Anton Orekh)
19. Moscow Times: Vladimir Ryzhkov, Anatomy of Putin’s Battle Against the Opposition.
20. BBC Monitoring: Russian party leader explains why he is ‘sceptical’ about new opposition body. (Vladimir Ryzhkov)
21. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Belkovskiy Comments on Upcoming Opposition Elections.
22. Moscow News: Anna Arutunyan, Pussy Riot and the party line. Why was Samutsevich set free? The answer is simpler than you think.
23. Moscow TImes: Investigators Wrap Up Politkovskaya Case.
ECONOMY
24. Moscow Times: Medvedev Promises Less Red Tape.
25. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The Russian prime minister discussed the investment climate in Russia with foreign investors.
26. Voice of Russia: Three scenarios for Russian economy.
27. Interfax: Kudrin Criticizes Prevalence of Social, Military Spending in Budget.
28. Valdai Discussion Club: Yevsei Gurvich, Russia’s budget for 2013-2015: Stability and efficiency.
29. CNBC.com: I’d Rather Invest in Russia Than the US: Jim Rogers.
30. Moscow News: The return of Sechin. An apparent compromise in a government rivalry places Putin’s key ally back in the picture.
31. Moscow Times: Towns Face Budget Battles They Can’t Win.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
32. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Sergei Karaganov, Russia in the World of Ideas and Images.
33. ITAR-TASS: EU reluctant to lift visa formalities from Russian holders of service passports.
34. Moscow Times: Steve Korn, New Radio Liberty to Carry Out Its Old Mission.
35. PRI’s The World: Looking Back at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
36. www.foreignpolicy.com: James Kirchick, Blindsided. The results of Georgia’s parliamentary election caught American pollsters completely off guard. They should have tried asking the right questions.
37. TAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The NATO forces may replace Russian peacekeepers in Moldova.