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Johnson’s Russia List
2012-#222
17 December 2012
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In this issue

POLITICS

1. www.russiatoday.com: Medvedev upholds Russian arms ban after US school massacre.
2. RIA Novosti: Children’s Rights Activists Rally at US Embassy in Moscow.
3. Interfax: Number of Orthodox Church members shrinking in Russia, Islam on the rise – poll.
4. Moscow Times: Soul-Searching Starts After Puny Rally.
5. Washington Post: Will Englund, In a reimagined Moscow, Soviet-era buildings ­ and apathy ­ would vanish. Why Moscow isn’t on anyone’s list of most livable cities.
6. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Russia is recognized as one of the most militarized countries in the world.
7. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Demography in Regional Perspective.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian students struggle to apply knowledge to real life.
9. Wall Street Journal: Yo: In Russia, Two Dots Can Mean a Lot. They Change the Way a Letter Is Pronounced, Raising Controversy; Fans, Monuments.
10. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Dec. 17, 2012.
11. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Unauthorised opposition action passed without mass detentions.
12. Reuters: Russian opposition leaders eye spring for renewed push.
13. ITAR-TASS: Opposition Coordination Council adopts action program in first reading.
14. International Herald Tribune: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Backtracking in Russia.
15. Washington Post: Fred Hiatt, Putin turns back the clock in Russia.
16. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. One more criminal case opened against oppositionist Navalny.
17. Moscow Times: Jamison Firestone, Why Russia Is Trying a Dead Man. (re Magnitsky)
18. Interfax: In 20 years 341 journalists have been killed in Russia.
19. Valdai Discussion Club: Dmitry Gorenburg, Multiculturalism à la Russe?
20. Moscow Times: Diaspora Youths Sold on Russian, but not Russia.

ECONOMY

21. Reuters: Russia capital flight not as bad as thought-study.
22. Bloomberg: Russia Faces Economy Trap as Oil Decline Looms, EBRD Says.
23. Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Experts See ‘Nothing New’ in Economic Section of Putin’s Annual Message.
24. Interfax: No new legal acts needed on privatization procedure – Shuvalov.
25. Svobodnaya Pressa: Putin, Medvedev Differ on Privatization.
26. Financial Times: Energy Battle. (re South Stream)
27. Moscow TImes: Minister Seeks Exemption From EU Energy Package for South Stream.
28. Moscow Times: Andrei Bougrov and Brook Horowitz, Building BRICS to Fight Corruption.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

29. Xinhua ‘Yearender’: Russian Diplomacy, Refocusing in a Kaleidoscope of World Politics.
30. AFP: Russia still at odds with West on Syria: analysts.
31. Moscow Times: Vladimir Frolov, Kremlin’s Shift On Syria Is Too Little and Late.
32. www.russiatoday.com: Russia to ban US adoptions in retaliation to Magnitsky Act.
33. The Nation: Edward Lozansky, Vladimir Sobell and Stephen F. Cohen, Is Congress’s Magnitsky Bill a New Blacklist?
34. Moscow TImes: General: NATO Air Hub Being Tested.
35. Nezavisimaya Gazeta editorial: DIALOGUE NEAR GENEVA. Russian and Georgian diplomats met in Switzerland.
36. International Herad Tribune: Allen Cowell, Revelations in Litvinenko Case Point to Ominous Motives.
37. William Dunkerley: Moscow Times Files False Report on Litvinenko Hearing.
38. Interfax Interview: Anders Fogh Rasmussen: It’s in Russia’s interests to ensure a very positive relationship with NATO countries. (NATO Secretary General)
39. Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye: Pundits View Prospects for Stability of Military-Strategic Balance. (Sergey Rogov, Viktor Yesin, Pavel Zolotarev and Valentin Kuznetzov)