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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2013-#67 :: 11 April 2013
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POLITICS

1. RIA Novosti: Most Russians Want Putin to Quit in 2018 – Poll.
2. ITAR-TASS: Putin takes his being blacklisted by Finnish police ironically – press secretary.
3. BBC Monitoring: Putin appalled by Russia’s poor waste disposal record.
4. Moscow Times: Big Changes Afoot – But Only After Sochi.
5. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Russia Needs Radical Reforms but Those Could Again Destroy the Country, Many Russians Think.
6. Vedomosti: Moscow Daily Eyes Putin’s Search for New ‘Mythology’ To Underpin Russian Nation’s ‘New Identity’
7. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Analyst Compares Role of Political Elites in ‘Traditional Democracies,’ Russia. (Nikolay Zlobin)
8. RIA Novosti: Russian Security Adviser Calls For State’s Stronger Presence In Internet.
9. Moscow Times/BBC Monitoring: What the Papers Say, Apr. 11, 2013.
10. Gazeta.ru: Survey Contrasts Increasingly Positive TV Coverage of Putin With Declining Coverage of Medvedev.
11. Valdai Discussion Club: Yevgeny Michenko, Will the Popular Front become the ruling party in Russia?
12. Interfax: Corrupt officials may inflate social discontent on purpose – expert.
13. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office intends to inspect all Russian NGOs.
14. Interfax: Russian NGOs financed from abroad obstructing prosecutorial inspections – spokesperson.
15. Polit.ru: Golos Deputy Director Denies ‘Foreign Agent’ Charges. (Grigoriy Melkonyants)
16. BBC Monitoring: Russian state TV talk show discusses NGO raids, North Korea.
17. RIA Novosti: Dozens in ‘Risk Group’ over Moscow Riots Case -­ Opposition.
18. www.russiatoday.com: Russian anti-corruption blogger Navalny files party registration papers.
19. BBC Monitoring: Russian pundit criticizes Putin’s performance during recent European tour. (Yevgeniya Albats)
20. RIA Novosti: Kremlin Backs Law Protecting Religious Sentiment – Spokesman.
21. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Novaya Gazeta: Bestseller writer Akunin to write a history of Russia. A new project of Russian detective writer Boris Akunin is already highly anticipated: his fans are gearing up to read a history of the country that entertains as well as informs.
22. AP: Russia’s Sochi busy storing snow for 2014 Olympics.

ECONOMY

23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Will Russia’s anti-corruption campaign improve the business climate? As entrepreneurs begin to reap benefits from a top-down war against corruption, its long-term effects on the business climate remain uncertain.
24. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, The Kremlin’s Ostrich Economists.
25. Moscow Times: Benat Bilbao-Osorio, Russia a Leader in the Information Revolution.
26. Wall Street Journal: Shale Threatens Russia’s Economy.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Washington questions Moscow about WTO conflicts. America seeks an explanation of why Russia’s foreign trade regulations clash with WTO rules.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

28. Moscow Times: ‘Quality Issues’ Led to Work-and-Travel Visa Crunch. (re US and Russian students)
29. Interfax: Lavrov: no obstacle to Russia, U.S. scrapping entry visas.
30. RIA Novosti: Obama Calls for More Nuclear Weapons Funding, Cuts for Nonproliferation.
31. Interfax: Lavrov: Magnitsky act ‘Russophobia’ product.
32. Interfax: Russian Foreign Minister argues that Middle East tensions may be advantageous to many countries.
33. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian pundits: Still calm about Korea? Regardles of the fact that Russian pundits are concerned by growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, most argue that a full-scale war will not break out.
34. RIA Novosti: Russia Ready to Expand Ties with Georgia – FM Lavrov.
35. Voice of America: James Brooke, Protected by Russia, Abkhazia Cautiously Engages Georgia.
36. ITAR-TASS: RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW. Georgian politicians denounce the war in South Ossetia.

LONG ITEM

37. US-Russia.org: Expert Discussion Panel. Russia, China and the BRICs: How should the West respond to the new challenges? (Parts One and Two)

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