RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#244 table of contents with links :: Tuesday 25 November 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List
JRL 2014-#244 :: Tuesday 25 November 2014
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1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Marriage? No thanks, I’m too busy: Why Russians are delaying tying the knot. Russians are increasingly leaving marriage to a later age in order to focus on their careers and personal interests. While a decade ago 40 percent of weddings were between people under the age of 24, that figure is now just 20 percent. Experts attribute this change to the desire among today’s youth to find a job and acquire life experience before tying the knot.
2. http://darussophile.com: Anatoly Karlin, The “Normalization” of Russia’s Demographics.
3. RIA Novosti: Top Russian psychiatrist links increased drink driving to economic strain.
4. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Excerpts From Vladimir Putin’s Latest Interview.
5. Izvestia: Russian pundits assess likelihood of another Putin presidency in 2018.
6. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russian expert looks at latest rumors of Russian PM possible dismissal.
7. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, CIRCLE THE RUSSIAN WAGONS – BELIEF IN PATRIOTISM, SACRIFICE, AND PUTIN RISES IN REACTION TO US, EU SANCTIONS, MEDIA WAR.
8. Institute of Modern Russia: Unnecessary Sacrifice. Two-thirds of Russian citizens continue to support the food embargo imposed by the Russian government in August 2014 despite its negative impact on the country’s economy. According to writer Alexander Podrabinek, this phenomenon derives from a legacy of Soviet thinking, upbringing, and way of life.
9. Moscow Times: Pyotr Romanov, Russia’s Intellectual Problem.
10. Moscow Times: Yekaterina Schulmann, Russian Parliament Is Slipping Back to ’90s Chaos.
11. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Failures of Russian Law Enforcement Leading More Russians to Want to Carry Guns.
12. TASS: Putin signs anti-offshore law to return Russian capital from foreign tax shelters.
13. Interfax: Russian Investigations Committee drafts measures to slow down capital flight.
14. Bloomberg: How to Become a Russian Billionaire With No Help from the Kremlin. (Sergey Galitskiy)
15. Financial Times: Rouble stabilises on oil supply hints.
16. Reuters: Russian oil tsar to meet OPEC as Saudis keep market guessing.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia looks for ways to influence oil prices as hole in budget looms. Falling oil prices have forced Russia to consider cutting production of the natural resource. Despite the fact that Russia accounts for around 14 percent of global output, experts doubt that a unilateral decision to cut production would cause tangible growth in oil prices. That situation could change, however, if other oil producers joined up with Russia to lower output.
18. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, Russia’s Future Jeopardized by OPEC’s Decline.
19. Sputnik: Russia and OPEC: An Unlikely Alliance.
20. Bloomberg: Russian Oil-Output Cuts to Support OPEC Seen as Unlikely.
21. Interfax: Russia to fingerprint foreigners seeking visas starting Dec. 10, 2014.
22. Wall Street Journal: Russian Attitudes Toward U.S. Plummet.
23. Moscow Times: U.S. – Russian Relations: From Bad to Worse? (Sergei Rogov and Sergei Karaganov)
24. Moscow Times: Spy Malware Deployed Against Russia by Unknown Nation, Report Says.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Beijing and Brisbane meetings see Russia boost economic ties with BRICS. The recent APEC and G20 summits yielded important dialogue between Moscow and the West on the Ukrainian crisis and a further strengthening of ties between Russia and its BRICS partners, though relations with West remain strained, as global media were keen to emphasize.
26. Business New Europe: By Ian Ivory, Russia pivots East – or is it just playing the field?
27. TASS: Some 40 states plan to create free trade zone with Eurasian Economic Union – lawmaker.
28. Interfax: Moscow hopes six mediators, Iran overcome differences in further talks.
29. Moscow Times: Iran Talks Show Why West Still Needs Russia.
30. TASS: Iranian nuclear problem talks: coming to terms will be ever harder.
31. Russia Direct: Alexander Sergunin and Valery Konyshev, Four dangerous myths about Russia’s plans for the Arctic. Escalating tensions between NATO and Russia in Europe are leading to increased concerns about the militarization of another region: the Arctic. But those concerns appear to be largely overstated.
32. Moscow Times: Russia and Breakaway Georgian Region to Create Joint Military.
33. New York Times: Further Strains in Unresolved War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Over Disputed Territory.
34. Moscow Times: The True Russia in Book ‘Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible.’ (Peter Pomerantsev)
35. Russia Insider: Joshua Tartakovsky, Western Reporters Fail to Convey the Russian Viewpoint.
36. www.rt.com: CNN’s Amanpour show edits out criticism by visiting RT host. (with Anissa Naouai and Mikhail Kasyanov)
37. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the XXII Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, Moscow, 22 November 2014.

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