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• Online Social Networks Now Most Important Means to Mobilize Russian Voters, Political Technologists Say
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t Tear Up This Treaty; Arms control isn’t perfect. But abandoning treaties without a plan for the future is dangerous.” – New York Times Editorial
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Think tank: NATO must prepare to counter a rapid Russia invasion in Europe” – Military Times/ Stephen Losey
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians spend a third of their income on food” – bne Intellinews
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-217 :: Tuesday, 18 December 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Russian Effort to Influence 2016 Election Targeted African-Americans” – New York Times/ Scott Shane, Sheera Frenkel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Boris Yeltsin’s shrine in Yekaterinburg brings tears for a legacy smashed by Putin” – Sunday Times (UK)/ Matthew Campbell
• RUSSIALINK: “Can Russia Turn a Plastic Corner? As the country grapples with a waste crisis, some supermarkets have begun charging shoppers for plastic bags.” – Moscow Times/ VICTORIA DMITRIEVA
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Based on new draft legislation, here’s how Russia would actually build its own, autonomous Internet” – Meduza
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin on Rap Music: It’s the Drugs That Really Bother Him” – New York Times/ Andrew E. Kramer
• NEWSLINK: “The ‘Global Cybercrime Problem’ Is Actually the ‘Russia Problem’; Convincing Putin that further attacks will trigger automatic, severe responses is the best path to deterrence.” – The Atlantic/ John P. Carlin
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-216 :: Monday, 17 December 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Half of Russians now say Vladimir Putin is responsible for the country’s problems, according to new poll” – Meduza/ Levada Center
• Isolation and Reconquista: Russia’s Toolkit as a Constrained Great Power
• Putin Hails Solzhenitsyn As ‘True Patriot’ On Centenary Of His Birth
• RUSSIALINK: “U.S. State Department Upgrades Russia in Travel Advisory System” – Moscow Times
• 1993 Constitution Not to Blame for Putin’s Authoritarian System, Shelin Says
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin appearance:] Monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn unveiled in Moscow” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Is Ready to Publish Correspondence on Alleged U.S. Election ‘Interference,’ Official Says” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights; The President held a meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting with Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Reception marking the 25th anniversary of the Constitution’ – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-215 :: Friday, 14 December 2018
• Russia Rises To Second In Global Arms Sales, With U.S. Still At No. 1
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A Cold War Arms Treaty Is Unraveling. But the Problem Is Much Bigger.” – New York Times/David E. Sanger, William J. Broad
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian-Saudi Oil Cooperation Won’t Last; They say they will cut production. But it’s in the interests of both big oil producers to pump as much as they can.” – Bloomberg/Leonid Bershidsky
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Armenia’s prime minister wins sweeping majority in election; Pashinyan set to consolidate strong mandate for revolution that swept him to power” – Financial Times/Max Seddon
• An Alekseyeva Lesson Russians Haven’t Learned: Far More has to Be Changed than Just the Leader
• RUSSIALINK: “Lyudmila Alexeyeva symbol of honesty, uncompromising struggle for human rights – Moskalkova” – Interfax
• NEWSLINK: “Jihadists from Ex-Soviet Central Asia: Where Are They? Why Did They Radicalize? What Next?” – Russia Matters/Edward Lemon, Vera Mironova, William Tobey
• NEWSLINK: “The extraordinary life of Lyudmila Alexeyeva — Meduza remembers a Russian human rights icon” – Meduza
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin] addressed United Russia party congress” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-214 :: Monday, 10 December 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Says Will Send Naval Ships Through Kerch Strait Soon” – AP
• RUSSIALINK: “Court in Kirov finds ban on Navalny’s international travel unlawful” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-213 :: Friday, 7 December 2018
• RUSSIALINK: “Diseases caused by bad nutrition cause 63% of deaths in Russia – Rospotrebnadzor” – Interfax
• Any U.S.-Russia Military Clash ‘Highly Likely’ to Escalate into Nuclear War, Arbatov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH VIDEO: “All For Nothing: Maidan Protester Deeply Disillusioned Five Years On” – RFE/RL
• World Bank: Russia Can Withstand Oil Price Volatility In 2019
• RUSSIALINK: “Medvedev: Pension Reform Was Hardest Decision of the Past Decade” – Moscow Times
• Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: “Russia’s Happy Ending”
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-212 :: Thursday, 6 December 2018
• RM Picks: What to Read on the Kerch Strait Crisis
• Standoff Over INF Treaty Enters New Phase As U.S. Reveals Details Of Russian Missile
• Moscow Said Using Polls to Prepare Russians for Giving the Kuriles Back to Japan
• RUSSIALINK: “Decriminalization of Domestic Violence Was a ‘Mistake,’ Russian Official Admits” – Moscow Times
• Political Polls in Russia are Useful but They are Being Misused, Shelin Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Every fifth Russian worker earns less than $250 per month” – bne Intellinews
• RUSSIALINK: “PMI in Russian manufacturing climbs to 52.6 in Nov, highest since July 2017 – IHS Markit” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin] Answers to media questions; Following the G20 Summit events, the President of Russia answered journalists’ questions” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK: “Peskov says Russia not obstructing Ukrainian ships’ passage through Kerch Strait” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-211 :: Monday, 3 December 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Arms For All? Khodorkovsky Says Russians Need Guns” – RFE/RL/ Timur Olevsky, Tony Wesolowsky
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-210 :: Friday, 30 November 2018
• Trump-Putin G20 Summit: High Stakes and Strained Dialogue
• Russia Outmaneuvers U.S. LNG
• Russia and the West Soon Will Be Moving Leftward, Pastukhov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Plans to Leave Russian Nuclear Deal, but Is Still Consulting Allies, Official Says; Coats to brief NATO colleagues at Brussels meeting this week on ‘threat’ from Moscow and how to respond” – Wall Street Journal/ Courtney McBride
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kudrin renews push for tough policy talk” – Bear Market Brief
• Nick Magliato: “Re: New book Stephen F. Cohen, War With Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate”
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “Russia Calling! Investment Forum (excerpt/with Q&A)” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-209 :: Thursday, 29 November 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Threat of new Russia sanctions forces foreign investor rethink” – Reuters/ Karin Strohecker, Marc Jones
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Georgians Set to Vote in Hotly Contested Presidential Runoff” – AP
• RUSSIALINK: “What Does the Kremlin Want Out of Putin and Trump’s Meeting?” – Carnegie Moscow/ DMITRI TRENIN, ALEXANDER GABUEV, ALEXANDER BAUNOV
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “Meeting of Council for Science and Education; Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education in the Kremlin” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-208 :: Wednesday, 28 November 2018
• The Nature and Sources of [the] Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-207 :: Tuesday, 27 November 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Putin Will Understand Only One Response: Escalation; Russia’s president cannot be allowed to attack another country to solve his own domestic problems” – Bloomberg/ Eli Lake
• NEWSLINK: “Trump’s weakness begets Russian aggression” – Washington Post/ Jennifer Rubin
• NEWSLINK: “THE NEW ARCTIC FRONTIER; As the ice melts, U.S. prepares for possible threats from Russia and China” – Washington Post/ Dan Lamothe, Kadir van Lohuizen, Yuri Kozyrev
• NEWSLINK: “Russia’s latest attack on the Ukrainians is a warning to the West; Moscow is counting on our passivity” – Washington Post/ Anne Applebaum
• RUSSIALINK: “What Drives the Russian State; To understand what makes Putin and his allies act the way they do, you need to look beyond the myths” – New York Times/ Alexander Baunov/ Carnegie Moscow
• NEWSLINK: “85 Years Later, Ukraine Marks Famine That Killed Millions” – New York Times/ Iuliia Mendel
• RUSSIALINK: “Poroshenko fails to make speech on martial law after several factions block Rada rostrum” – Interfax
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine Standoff Intensifies Over Captured Vessels; Kiev has troops on military alert and demands Moscow releases the ships and crew members” – Wall Street Journal/ Thomas Grove, Ann M. Simmons, Emre Peker, Georgi Kantchev
• RUSSIALIST: “Russia Says It Is Planning for New U.S. Nuclear Missiles in Europe” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Ukrainian Security Council proposes martial law until Jan 25, 2019” – Interfax
• NEWSLINK: “James H. Billington, 89, Dies; Led Library of Congress Into Digital Age” – New York Times/Robert D. McFadden
• NEWSLINK: “James H. Billington, long-reigning librarian of Congress, dies at 89” – Washington Post
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-206 :: Monday, 26 November 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia rewrites nuclear rule book to fire first” – The Times (UK)/ Marc Bennetts
• Nearly Two-Thirds of Russians Say Putin Responsible for Problems in Their Country, Levada Center Poll Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “New Ukrainian Opposition Party Names Presidential Runner; A pro-Russian candidate could present a real challenge to Poroshenko, pundits say, if the squabbling opposition parties join forces” – Transitions Online
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Baron Sobyanin; Moscow’s mayor squashes competition but transforms his city; Sergei Sobyanin has turned his city around” – The Economist
• RUSSIALINK: “WTO modernization among key issues at G20 summit – Russian Sherpa” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “No rapid de-dollarization, national currency settlements pose certain risks – Kudrin” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Dozens leave St. Petersburg’s Yabloko branch over differences with Yavlinsky” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Losing the Plot – Ukraine’s Opposition Seeks a Strategy; Ukraine’s pro-Russian opposition is targeting next year’s parliamentary elections, not the presidential ones-so is Russia. But they cannot agree among themselves on who their leader should be and what their strategy is” – Carnegie Moscow/ Konstantin Skorkin
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-205 :: Friday, 23 November 2018
• One-Fifth Of Russians Live In Poverty, 36 Percent In ‘Risk Zone,’ Study Finds
• Russia Today is Not Where USSR was in 1991 in Three Important Respects, Two Bloggers Say
• NEWSLINK: “Robert Legvold on Russia: Insights and Recommendations” – Russia Matters
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia strengthening presence in Arctic – Putin”- Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-204 :: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian, US Officials Say Space Cooperation Remains Strong” – AP/ Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S.-Russian Relations and the ‘New Cold War’ Metaphor [Excerpt]” – PONARS Eurasia
• Putin Views World as His TV Portrays It – and Himself as Russia’s Savior Not Its Problem, Davydov Says