Johnson's Russia List

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• Bolton, New U.S. National Security Adviser, Tells Russia Conditions For Better Ties
• NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia Sponsoring Terrorism?” – New York Times/Senator Cory Gardner
• NEWSWATCH: “Political Tensions Could Rob the U.S. of the Russian Rocket Engine It Desperately Needs; The United States has become increasingly reliant on the RD-180” – Popular Mechanics/David Grossman
• RUSSIALINK: Interfax: “Duma speaker warns of Russia’s dangerous dependency on U.S. pharmaceutical imports”
• NEWSLINK: Doctors ordered at gunpoint to deny Syria chemical attack or else their children will be killed; ‘Unless you give a testimony, doctor, that there wasn’t a gas attack, we’ll be killing your children'” – The Mirror (UK)/Andrew Gregory
• NEWSLINK: “When did Trump and Putin talk about ‘hookers’?” – Washington Post/Philip Bump
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-71 :: Friday, 20 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH: “Silicon Valley Giants Face a Test in Russia; Russian censors are going after Telegram, but the pressure is on Amazon, Google and Facebook too” – Bloomberg/Leonid Bershidsky
• Moody’s says Russian economy resilient to latest U.S. sanctions
• NEWSLINK: “Factbox: U.S. Companies With Exposure to Russia” – Reuters
• NEWSWATCH: “Russia wants U.S. military out of Syria. But it still needs U.S. to help bring peace.” – Christian Science Monitor/Fred Weir
• NEWSWATCH: “Putin and Trump trying to walk back Syria strike and sanctions tensions” – bne Intellinews
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-70 :: Thursday, 19 April 2018
• British Media Regulator Probing RT’s Impartiality After Salisbury Poisoning
• Russia Tells Its Study-Abroad Students: It’s Time To Come Home
• Western Attack Hasn’t Changed Situation in Syria or Harmed Moscow Despite Russian Public Reaction, Akopov Says
• NEWSLINK: “Russia World Cup: Kremlin SEX THREAT to England players. GORGEOUS Russian girls will be lined up by Russia to ‘honey-trap’ England players at this summer’s FIFA World Cup, a security expert has claimed.” – The Express (UK)/Joey Millar
• NEWSLINK: “Putin might already have your Wi-Fi password” – Business Insider/Jim Edwards
• RUSSIALINK: “State TV Still Biggest and Most Trusted News Source for Russians – Poll” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-69 :: Wednesday, 18 April 2018
• Russia haunts the western imagination; The dividing line between authoritarian Russia and liberal democracies is growing ever thinner.
• NEWSWATCH: “In Syria and Beyond, a Dangerous New Era Dawns; The U.S. simultaneously confronts an aggrieved Russia and an aggressive rising power in China, a situation that calls for dexterous diplomacy” – Wall Street Journal/Gerald F. Seib
• NEWSLINK: “Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost” – Washington Post/Greg Jaffe, John Hudson, Philip Rucker
• NEWSLINK: “Trump Scraps New Sanctions Against Russia, Overruling Advisers” – New York Times/Peter Baker
• NEWSLINK: “Syria: bottom line questions” – Graham E. Fuller
• NEWSWATCH: “U.S. postpones fresh sanctions on Russia, Kremlin retaliation options limited” – bne Intellinews/Ben Aris
• NEWSLINK: “Autumn of the Oligarchs; Vladimir Putin’s Billionaire Buddies Are Getting Scared, and Not Just of Sanctions” – The Daily Beast/Amy Knight
• NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Frantic Parade of Lies” – Washington Post Editorial
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-68 :: Tuesday, 17 April 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Russia Trained ‘Special Units’ on Door Handle Poisonings, U.K. Says” – New York Times/Ellen Barry
• U.S. Sanctions aren’t Splitting Russian Elites or Dividing Elites and People, ‘Nezavisimaya’ Says
• NEWSLINK: “The Arctic as the next battleground? Don’t count on it” – Asia Times/Richard A. Bitzinger
• RUSSIALINK: “Can Russia Afford Its Save-a-Billionaire Relief Program? Russia’s poorest will end up footing the bill” – Moscow Times/ Vedomosti/ Pavel Aptekar, Vladimir Ruvinsky
• NEWSLINK: “In Memoriam: Karen Dawisha” – Miami University, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
• NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Trade With the West Surges Even as Sanctions Mount; Last year’s increase, three years after penalties tied to annexation of Crimea, shows limits of curbs in longer term” – Wall Street Journal/Andrea Thomas, James Marson, Stefan Lange
• NEWSWATCH: “‘Market Fundamentalism’ Tested as New Economic Storm Hits Russia” – Bloomberg
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Medvedev:] Government report on its performance in 2012-2017” [Excerpt] – GovernmentRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-67 :: Friday, 13 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH: “Why Expelling Russian Diplomats Isn’t Enough” – Atlantic Council/Jakub Janda
• NEWSWATCH: “Medvedev threatens Russian counter-measures on U.S. goods” – Financial Times/Kathrin Hille
• NEWSWATCH: “No longer safe assets: Invest in Russia at your own risk after U.S. sanctions, strategist says” – CNBC/Natasha Turak
• NEWSWATCH: “A few cruise missiles from Trump won’t stop Syria’s war crimes” – Washington Post Editorial
• NEWSWATCH: “Trump Says U.S. Could Help Russian Economy” – Reuters
• NEWSLINKS: “Kremlin backers warn of threat of war with U.S. as Syria tensions rise” – Washington Post/Anton Troianovski
• NEWSLINK: “In Syria, Trump Faces the Limits of Bluster” – New York Times Editorial
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-66 :: Wednesday, 11 April 2018
• Ruble Falls Further, Russian Officials Seek To Calm Nerves
• To Avert U.S. Retaliation, Russia Proposes Inspection of Syria Attack Site
• ‘No Doubt’ Russia Can Weather U.S. Sanctions, Economic Development Minister Says
• Interfax: Kudrin notes stability of Russian financial market Tuesday after Monday’s crash
• Russia Faces ‘100 Years Of Solitude’ (Or More), Putin Aide Says
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-65 :: Tuesday, 10 April 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Taking on Russia’s ‘oligarchs’; Meduza looks at the businessmen, state officials, and companies targeted in the latest U.S. sanctions” – Meduza
• New Sanctions Won’t Spark Conspiracy Against Putin or Reverse His Policies, Shevtsova Says
• NEWSWATCH: “Arizona Election Database Targeted in 2016 by Criminals, Not Russia: Source” – Reuters
• NEWSWATCH: “Zapret a manger: Russia’s elites face growing sanctions pressure” – Bear Market Brief/Max Hess
• NEWSLINK: “BOOK REVIEW: EVERYDAY LAW IN RUSSIA” – Irrussianality/Paul Robinson
• RUSSIALINK: Interfax: Moscow urges London to explain situation surrounding visa for Victoria Skripal – Foreign Ministry
• NEWSLINK: “Expelled from Russia, U.S. diplomats bid a wistful farewell (video)” – Washington Post/Amie Ferris-Rotman
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-64 :: Monday, 9 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH VIDEO: “Putin’s Next Act” – Brookings/ Julia Ioffe, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Angela Stent, Strobe Talbott, Alina Polyakova
• Unsustainable Status Quo or a Costly Stability? The Increasing Risks of the Unresolved Conflict in Donbas.
• NEWSWATCH: “What Is the FBI Hiding? The bureau still won’t comply with an eight-month-old subpoena from Congress” – Wall Street Journal/Kimberley A. Strassel
• NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin timed Salisbury attack to get election boost, top U.S. intelligence official suggests” – The Daily Telegraph (UK)/Ben Riley-Smith
• NEWSWATCH: “Poisoned Russian Agent Sergei Skripal Is Getting Better Fast, Hospital Says” – Reuters
• In Current Illiberal Cycle, Being an Autocrat like Putin is Fashionable, Albats Says
• Interfax: Nebenzya: Skripal posed no threat to Russia
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting of the State Council on promoting competition” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-63 :: Friday, 6 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH: “How Russia’s Economic Recession Benefits Moscow Politically in its ‘Near Abroad’ [Excerpt]” – PONARS Eurasia/Mariya Omelicheva
• U.S. Reported Poised To Impose New Sanctions On Russian Billionaires
• Why Ekaterinburg needs a directly elected mayor; One of Russia’s biggest cities is losing the right to elect its mayor. The position may be symbolic, but so is its loss.
• RUSSIALINK: Interfax: “Int’l rules of conduct needed to prevent situations like blocking of Russian media outlets’ Facebook accounts – Nikiforov”
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-62 :: Thursday, 5 April 2018
• Kremlin’s Political Clans Start Competing Ahead of Possible Reshuffle
• NEWSWATCH: “Russia and the U.S. can replace expelled diplomats” – CNN/Laura Koran
• NEWSWATCH: “POLL: Christian Values on Sodomy, Abortion, Surge In Russia – 83% Reject Homosexuality; ‘abortions have decreased eight-fold in Russia over the past 25 years'” – RussianFaith
• NEWSWATCH: “Porton Down experts unable to identify ‘precise source’ of novichok that poisoned spy; The lab’s boss says a ‘state actor’ made the novichok and also rubbishes claims that it could have come from his facility.” – Sky News (UK)/Paul Kelso
• NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Turkey visit brings S-400 missile and nuclear plant headway” – bne Intellinews
• NEWSWATCH: “Russian officials accuse West of fomenting new Cold War” – AP
• NEWSLINK: “Is Putin a C.I.A. Agent?” – Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times
• NEWSLINK: “Who’s Responsible For The New Cold War? An Interview With Renowned Russia Expert Stephen Cohen” – JewishPress/Elliot Resnick
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-61 :: Wednesday, 4 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH: “Is it a crime to worship God? According to Russia, yes.” – Washington Post
• NEWSWATCH: “When does Russian propaganda work – and when does it backfire? Here’s what we found.” – Washington Post/Leonid Peisakhin, Arturas Rozenas
• From Tatiana Stanovaya: “Exclusive analysis about Russia; New project dedicated to Russian politics”
• NEWSWATCH: “Russian Billionaire Arrest Jolts Stocks, Fuels Cabinet Shake-Up Speculation” – Bloomberg/Ksenia Galouchko, Ilya Arkhipov, Stepan Kravchenko
• NEWSLINK: “Was nerve agent spy poisoned by his breakfast? Police quiz daughter’s friend who brought £1 bag of cereal from Russia as a gift” – The Daily Mail (UK)
• NEWSLINK: “Direct mayoral elections are abolished in Yekaterinburg” – Meduza
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: [Putin at] Meeting with Central Election Commission Chairperson Ella Pamfilova” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-60 :: Tuesday, 3 April 2018
• NEWSWATCH: “Michael McFaul Course Syllabus: Russia and the West [Spring 2018]” – Stanford University
• NEWSLINK: “Russian Professor Warns of Putin Hit list: ‘It’s Very Cold Warrish'” – Nina Khrushcheva
• NEWSWATCH: “Poisoned Door Handle Hints at High-Level Plot to Kill Spy, U.K. Officials Say” – New York Times/Ellen Barry, David E. Sanger
• Russian sports minister suggests putting WADA in charge of national anti-doping organizations
• NEWSLINK: “All 60 Russians kicked out of U.S. are ‘undeclared spies’ pretending to be diplomats, U.S. official says” – Fox News
• RUSSIALINK: Interfax: “UK takes West’s anti-Russian campaign to new level with Skripal case – Zakharova”
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-59 :: Monday, 2 April 2018
• VOA Interview: U.S. Ambassador Says Russia Must Change Behavior
• Defending Digital Democracy