Johnson's Russia List

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• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-179 :: Monday, 15 October 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Sanctions Unlikely to Pass Congress Before November” – Bloomberg/ Arit John, Anna Edgerton, Natasha Doff (Sept. 27, 2018)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Regional Elections Rundown” – Bear Market Brief (Sept. 28, 2018)
• RUSSIALINK: “Russian Autumn Fun: The Word’s Worth” – Moscow Times/ Michele A. Berdy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S., Russia Clash at U.N. as Lavrov Calls for Easing of North Korea Sanctions” – Wall Street Journal/ Jessica Donati (Sept. 28, 2018)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s pension reform still seen as unjust, but less willing to protest” – bne Intellinews [Sept. 27, 2018]
• NEWSLINK: “Voronezh and the re-branding of post-Soviet Russia; The writer returns to the university she studied at in the 1970s to find a city transformed” – Mary Dejevsky
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Has a Vaccination Problem” – Moscow Times
• Putin’s Managed Democracy Falters
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-178 :: Friday, 28 September 2018
• The ‘Who, What, When’ of Russia Sanctions: A Cheat Sheet for Laymen
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Putinism the Russian Norm or an Aberration?” – Current History/ Michael McFaul
• Russians Are Much Less Willing to Protest Retirement Age Hike, Poll Says
• RUSSIALINK: “Butina finally given normal prison conditions in U.S. in terms of sleep, daily activities – father” – Interfax
• Ways to End the Donbas Conflict. Interview with Serhiy Kudelia.
• NEWSLINK: “Short digest of the roots of Ukrainian crisis from 1654 to present” – Washington Times/ Edward Lozansky
• NEWSLINK: “Russian Studies in the Era of Trump” – Ohio State University Slavic and East European Journal
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Via arms and trade, Russia plots long-term Syrian future” – AP
• NEWSLINK: “Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga” – Bellingcat
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-177 :: Thursday, 27 September 2018
• Russian Retirement-Age Hike Advances As Putin’s Adjustment Approved
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In breakaway Ukraine, those who live by the sword are dying by it; Could an anonymous cull of Donbass’ violently charismatic separatists precede a peaceful solution?” – Asia Times/ Giovanni Pigni
• NEWSLINK: “Russia is trying to influence the 2018 U.S. election. But this time the U.S. is prepared” – Washington Post/ Alla Baranovsky-Dewey
• NEWSLINK: “Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight?” – New York Times/Kevin Roose
• NEWSLINK: “A GOP spin on the Russia probe reads like a noir thriller – but doesn’t add up; All of the Steele dossier can’t be discredited just because the contacts between private investigators and government officials were sometimes incestuous” – Washington Post/ David Ignatius
• RUSSIALINK: “Pension bill passes 2nd reading in State Duma, 3rd reading due on Thursday” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-176 :: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
• RUSSIALINK: “Zyuganov calls for gathering political elites in Kremlin, scrapping pension reform” – Interfax
• Pundits Say Russian Vote Results Signal Protest, Not Real Change
• RUSSIALINK: “Why Russia and China Are Strengthening Security Ties; Is the U.S. Driving Them Closer Together?” – Foreign Affairs/ Alexander Gabuev/ Carnegie Moscow
• RUSSIALINK: “What next for Russian-Israeli relations? Russia’s decision to install the S-300 in Syria increases the risk of unintended confrontation with Israel” – AlJazeera/ Yury Barmin/ Russian International Affairs Council
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-175 :: Tuesday, 25 September 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia to Supply Syria With Air-Defense System, Raising Tensions With Israel; The delivery of the S-300 raises the risks of escalation with Israel in a complex ground-and-air conflict involving multiple countries” – Wall Street Journal/James Marson/ Felicia Schwartz
• Russian Infrastructure to Support Northern Sea Route Won’t Be Ready for at Least Another Decade, Experts Say
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s war is transforming Ukraine” – Washington Post/Anne Applebaum
• Lobbyists Now More Powerful than People in Putin’s Russia, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Warns
• NEWSLINK: “Only You Can Defeat Vladimir Putin; Russian Interference With America Is Profound and Systematic, So the Best Self-Defense Is We, the People” – ZocaloPublicSquare/ Reed Johnson
• RUSSIALINK: “United Russia pledges interaction with new governors of Khabarovsk Territory, Vladimir region” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-174 :: Monday, 24 September 2018
• Nuclear Near Miss: Remembering the ‘Man Who Saved the World’
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “[Re: Sanctions]”- Andrew Kuchins
• More U.S. Sanctions On Russia Would Be Counter Productive
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-173 :: Saturday, 22 September 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Oil Production Jumps to a New Post-Soviet Record” – Bloomberg/Elena Mazneva
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Population Decreases for First Time in a Decade” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia is throwing out suspicious gubernatorial election results in Primorsky Krai” – Meduza
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Air Has Seeped Out of the Russia/Collusion Balloon” – Washington Examiner/Michael Barone
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “World Anti-Doping Agency Reinstates Russia” – AP
• Vostok-2018: Russia and China Signal Growing Military Cooperation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Spiritual capital: why Ukraine is breaking from Russia’s Orthodox Church; The Ukrainian government has promised its citizens a new, independent Orthodox Church that will unite Ukrainian believers. But bringing several denominations together is harder than you think. [Excerpt]” – OpenDemocracy/Andrii Fert
• RUSSIALINK: “Gubernatorial elections in Russia: Stop, cancel, start again” – PravdaRu
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia rejects reports of Skripal suspects being GRU agents” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Second Eurasian Women’s Forum” – KremlinRu
• NEWSLINK: “A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath” – New York Times/KAREN YOURISH, LARRY BUCHANAN, DEREK WATKINS
• NEWSLINK: “The Plot to Subvert an Election; Unraveling the Russia Story So Far” – New York Times/SCOTT SHANE, MARK MAZZETTI
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-172 :: Thursday, 20 September 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Former Bush adviser has three steps to rebuild U.S.-Russia relationship” – CBS News
• The U.S. Calls On Russia To Cap Soaring Oil Prices
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Hungarian PM reaches agreement on gas deliveries from Russia to 2020” – bne Intellinews
• NEWSLINK: “Britain may have MISSED real Novichok ‘assassins’ with CCTV suspects acting as ‘watchers’, ex-spy claims” – The Mirror (UK)/Will Stewart, Abigail O’Leary
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting with elected regional governors” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK: “Russian-Israeli military hotline must be improved – expert” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Pamfilova makes decisions without anyone’s instructions, didn’t bother Putin on situation with election in Primorye” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s CEC wishes to investigate violations regardless of ranks of those who organized Primorye electoral fraud” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-171 :: Wednesday, 19 September 2018
• Tension Builds In Russian Far East Region After Disputed Vote Count
• NEWSLINK: “How Putin Works to Weaken Faith in the Rule of Law and Our Justice System” – Lawfare/Suzanne Spaulding, Harvey Rishikof
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Blames Israel for Loss of Plane Shot Down by Syria Air Defenses; Moscow said it reserved the right to ‘respond adequately’ to the loss” – Wall Street Journal/Thomas Grove and Felicia Schwartz
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-China trade turnover up 25.7% in January-August 2018” – bne Intellinews
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Woodward: No Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion, I Searched For Two Years” -RealClearPolitics/ Ian Schwartz
• NEWSLINK: “Russia is gearing up to misinform the U.S. public about Syria. Here’s our cheat sheet to identify Twitter trolls” – Washington Post/Jack Nassetta, Ethan Fecht
• NEWSLINK: “Memorial Service for Professor Richard Pipes” – Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Communists Say Election Stolen by Pro-Putin Candidate” – Reuters
• NEWSLINK: “Grave Robbers, Nazi Collaborators and Official Apathy: How Ukraine Is Erasing the Holocaust” – Haaretz/Shmuel Herzfeld
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-170 ::Tuesday, 18 September 2018
• The Hole Truth: U.S.-Russia Space Dustup Threatens Rare Frontier Of Cooperation
• Capitalism the Kremlin Way
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “IMF Executive Board Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation with the Russian Federation”
• [Re:] American Intelligence [… Trump, Ukraine, Russia … “Fear: Trump in the White House/Woodward” … Politico ]
• RUSSIALINK: “International investigators to study Russia’s new info on MH17 crash – statement” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-169 :: Monday, 17 September 2018
• ‘Above All, Avoid Zeal’: EastWest’s Cameron Munter on Russia’s Relations With the West
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Serious’ rivalry still drives China-Russia relations despite improving ties” – CNBC/Nyshka Chandran
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Once again, Putin gives us a lesson on the usefulness of the blatant lie” – Washington Post/Anne Applebaum
• More Lethal Weaponry Possible For Ukraine, U.S. Envoy Tells RFE/RL
• RUSSIALINK: “U.S. Tells Russia it Could Avoid Novichok Sanctions in Exchange for Chemical Inspections” – Moscow Times
• Kremlin Says it Would Consider British Request Over Skripal Poisoning Suspects
• NEWSLINK: “Russia is advancing on Ukraine again – and Ukraine isn’t going quietly; President Petro Poroshenko tells the Post how he wants the war to end” – Washington Post/ Lally Weymouth
• NEWSLINK: “U.S. Spies Rush to Protect Defectors After Skripal Poisoning” – New York Times/ Adam Goldman/ Julian E. Barnes/ Michael S. Schmidt/ Matt Apuzzo
• NEWSLINK: “‘THE AMERICANS’ TRUE GIFT? LOOKING INSIDE THE MIND OF VLADIMIR PUTIN” – Wired/Emily Dreyfuss
• RUSSIALINK: “Only 12% of Ukrainians are ready to take part in protests, number of those ready to go to Maidan is twice as low – poll” – Interfax
• NEWSLINK: “The Mueller Investigation Is Sending People to Jail – but Not for Collusion; The belief that George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort would turn over evidence of collusion with Russia got ahead of reality” – The Nation/Aaron Maté
• RUSSIALINK: “Moscow, Damascus acting in Idlib only in response to terrorists’ sorties – Lavrov” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Depoliticization in Russia: The Growth of the Protest Vote” – Carnegie Moscow/Andrey Pertsev
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-168 :: Friday, 14 September 2018
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia ready to normalize relations with U.S. but sees no reciprocal steps – Lavrov” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “TV Still Russia’s Biggest News Source, but Trust Plummets – Poll” – Moscow Times
• NEWSLINK: “Aiming at Putin With Sanctions, U.S. May Hit Emerging World” – Bloomberg/Olga Tanas, Anna Andrianova, Alexandra Stratton, Gregory White, Alec McCabe
• RUSSIALINK: “New survey from state pollster says Russians’ fears of terrorism are at a record low” – Meduza
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia: Runoffs in Four Regional Races Reveal the Kremlin’s Vulnerability” [Excerpt] – Stratfor