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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#220
13 December 2012
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In this issue
POLITICS
1. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Russians Show That They Are What They Eat.
2. BBC Monitoring: Putin Ends Parliament Address With Promise of ‘Happy Life’
3. BBC Monitoring: Putin Urges Return to ‘Moral Compasses’ in Parliament Address.
4. Interfax: Putin calls for revival of provincial intelligentsia as moral pillar of Russia.
5. Moscow Times: Putin Offers Little Political Reform.
6. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Journalists find no sensations in RF president’s address to Federal Assembly.
7. Vedomosti: INVITATION FROM PUTIN. VLADIMIR PUTIN IS READY FOR ACTIVE POLITICAL COMPETITION.
8. New York Times: Russia’s History Should Guide Its Future, Putin Says.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Dec. 13, 2012.
10. Izvestia: STYMIED FEDERAL ASSEMBLY. Comments from the audience on the Presidential Message.
11. Interfax: Putin’s message indicates determination to continue old course – Communist Party.
12. Interfax: Putin’s address is declarative – expert Pavlovsky.
13. Interfax: Kasyanov sees liberal rhetoric in Putin’s message but doubts its implementation.
14. Moskovskiye Novosti: Putin Claims Public Sector Workers Are “Creative Class”
15. Washington Post: Putin’s pledges in state-of-nation speech draw skepticism from critics.
16. Izvestia: President Putin To Resume Alpine Skiing in Early January 2013.
17. Svobodnaya Pressa: Experts Comment on Medvedev’s Declining Poll Numbers, Likely Fate.
18. Valdai Discussion Club: Yevgeny Minchenko, Balance of power has not been restored in Russia, clans are still fighting.
19. ITAR-TASS: Opposition action in Moscow not sanctioned, activists want to come out all the same.
20. St. Petersburg Times: Anniversary March Of Freedom Gets Go-Ahead.
21. RIA Novosti: Investigators Say Georgian Targamadze behind Moscow Protests.
22. RIA Novosti: NGO Warning ‘Not Linked’ to Foreign Agent Law – Justice Ministry.
23. New York Times: Fighting Corruption, One Handyman at a Time. (re Aleksei Navalny)
24. Moscow Times: Plea Bargain Upheld in Politkovskaya Case.
ECONOMY
25. Interfax: Russia needs market economy, not state capitalism – Putin.
26. Business New Europe: Chris Weafer, President’s Federal Assembly Address. Promising to Pick Up the Pace.
27. Moscow Times: Putin Targets Transparency of Offshore Companies.
28. ITAR-TASS: Putin’s Address sets ambitious agricultural plans.
29. www.russiatoday.com: Russians ranked number 2 in retail spending around the world.
30. RIA Novosti: Russia Sets Priorities for G20 Agenda.
31. Bloomberg: Putin Vetoes Proposed Breaks for Medvedev Innovation Hub.
32. Interfax: Shuvalov does not support idea of officials returning to boards at state companies, even in light of RusHydro board’s conflict.
33. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Russian Businessmen Tell Pollsters Bribes Now Seen As Normal Business Cost.
34. Moscow Times: Konstantin Sonin, Why Economic Prizes Are So Important.
35. www.russiatoday.com: US Senate bill to make Europe less energy dependent on Russia.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
36. Interfax: Foreign policy provisions of Putin’s address create new understanding of Russian international role – Pushkov.
37. ITAR-TASS: Course at Eurasian integration in Putin Address meets int’l trends.
38. RIA Novosti: Putin Calls for ‘Adequate’ Response to Magnitsky Act.
39. BBC Monitoring: Russian talk show discusses Magnitskiy Act.
40. Moscow Times: Mark Nuckols, Putin Out of Options on Magnitsky.
41. www.russiatoday.com: Syrian opposition victory possible, but at unacceptable price – Moscow.
42. BBC Monitoring: Russia may use its stance on Syria as response to Magnitskiy Act, says pundit. (Aleksandr Shumilin)
43. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian Commentator Says Fighting on ‘Only Rational Choice’ for Al-Asad. (Fedor Lukyanov)
44. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: William Pomeranz, Moving Beyond the Reset.
45. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia terminated the operation of the missile early warning radar station in Azerbaijan.
46. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: China Replacing Russia as ‘Elder Brother’ in Central Asia, Moscow Analyst Says.
47. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: TALKS IN GENEVA BEGIN. OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF MOSCOW AND TBILISI WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS.