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• Yes Or No: Is A Referendum In The Cards Over Russian Pension Reform?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “More U.S. Marines to train in Norway, closer to Russia” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Turkey Shifts Toward Russia as Sanctions Sour U.S. Relations; Foreign ministers slam Western sanctions, as Erdogan plans boycott of U.S. electronic goods” – Wall Street Journal/David Gauthier-Villars
• Moscow has Made ‘Unforgivable Mistake’ of Setting West against Russia for the Long Term, Shevtsova Says
• RUSSIALINK: “The Russian Sanctions Bill Proposed by Congress, Explained” – Moscow Times
• Maria Trofimova: “[SEELANGS] European University at Saint Petersburg Reopens Its International”
• More than Half of Russians Say Neither Side in August 1991 Putsch was in the Right
• RUSSIALINK: “Mail.ru Group calls for amnestying people convicted of extremism over reposts, likes” – Interfax
• Research the revenge: what we’re getting wrong about Russia Today; Data-mining and analysis will not reveal what makes Russian propaganda tick.
• RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin urges social media prosecutions to stay within ‘reason'” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-150 :: Wednesday, 16 August 2018
• Is This The Most Important Geopolitical Deal Of 2018?
• William Hill: “New Book: No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia to increase oil production to new record highs in 2019” – bne Intellinews
• Nigel Gould-Davies: “BOFIT Policy Brief: Assessing Western Sanctions”
• NEWSLINK: “How Bill Browder Became Russia’s Most Wanted Man; The hedge-fund manager has offered a fable for why the West should confront Putin” – The New Yorker/Joshua Yaffa
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-149 :: Tuesday, 14 August 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Newest U.S. Sanctions Against Russia Hit an Economic Nerve” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “To advance almost all of our core national security and economic interests, the U.S. does not need Russia. Remember that.” – Michael McFaul/twitter
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Buddhism flourishes in Siberia, opening window on its pre-Soviet past; Orthodox Christianity may be Russia’s most high-profile religion, but it is only one of the country’s four official ‘founding’ faiths. Another of the four, Buddhism, has been experiencing a rebirth in post-Soviet Russia.” – Christian Science Monitor/Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Gorky Park, with nuclear worries” – The Hill/Matthew Bunn
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Misery” – Irrussianality/Paul Robinson
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Administration Gets Tough on Russia – Despite Trump; The president holds chummy meetings with Vladimir Putin, while his administration imposes new sanctions.” – New York Times Editorial
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “This is not a hoax, and things are not okay” – Washington Post/Joe Scarborough
• RUSSIALINK: “Experts discuss Russian responses to new U.S. sanctions” – Bear Market Brief
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-148 :: Monday, 13 August 2018
• How conservative is the Russian regime? Russia’s intensifying neoliberal policies and the accompanying conservative rhetoric are clear evidence of the prolonged crisis facing the Putin regime.
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Moscow’s Newest Park, All of Russia Comes Together” – New York Times/Roslyn Sulcas
• A Landmark Caspian Agreement — And What It Resolves
• NEWSLINK: “Factbox: U.S. Companies With Exposure to Russia” – Reuters
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-147 :: Friday, 10 August 2018
• When Does Vladimir Putin’s Russia Send In Troops?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Think Tank’s Tiny Lab Helps Facebook Battle Fake Social Media” – Reuters/New York Times
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-146 :: Thursday, 9 August 2018
• NEWSLINK: “This Russian Spy Agency is in the Middle of Everything; Only a few years ago, the GRU looked like it might be dissolved. But Putin found new uses for it: covert war in Ukraine and ‘active measures’ that helped Trump get elected” – The Daily Beast/Amy Knight
• NEWSLINK: Mikheil Saakashvili: “When Russia Invaded Georgia; It happened in 2008 and foretold a decade of Putin’s adventurism” – Wall Street Journal
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-145 :: Wednesday, 8 August 2018
• NEWSLINK: “Believe it or not, Trump’s following a familiar script on Russia; The West has spent a decade playing into Putin’s hands” – Washington Post/Robert Kagan
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Russia, the Corporate Raiders Are Often Cops; Companies face harassment from law-enforcement officials, according to business owners, lawyers and activists” – Wall Street Journal/James Marson, Thomas Grove
• “Russia, My History” — History as an Ideological Tool
• NEWSLINK: “How the GRU spy agency targets the west, from cyberspace to Salisbury” – The Guardian (UK)/Andrew Roth
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Can Weather Any New U.S. Sanctions, Says Moody’s” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with Kommersant newspaper; 10 years after the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict” – Government.ru/Kommersant
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-144 :: Tuesday, 7 August 2018
• Not So United: Russia’s Ruling Party Rattled By Pension-Reform Crisis
• Growing Russian Sympathy for West a Bigger Problem for Kremlin than Regime’s Declining Ratings, Shevtsova Says
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia to memorialize 20 Holocaust execution sites” – Interfax
• Number of Believers in Russia Up, Role of Religion in Their Lives Often Remains Small, New Study Finds
• RUSSIALINK: “Moscow Welcomes 2000 Years of History” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Russians Blame Tbilisi, Not Moscow for 2008 War, Poll Says” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Revision of sanctions could start with lifting restrictions on Russian, U.S. lawmakers – Slutsky” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-143 :: Monday, 3 August 2018
• JRL RUSSIAWATCH: “Russian pollster reports sharp rise in positive views of U.S.” – LevadaRu
• Will Pension Protests ‘Take Down’ Putin?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. to impose ‘crushing’ set of sanctions on Russia’s debt and oil” – bne Intellinews/Ben Aris
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians ready to protest pension reform, ratings of ruling United Russia drop” – bne Intellinews
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-142 :: Friday, 3 August 2018
• RUSSIALINK: “Russians’ Willingness to Protest is Highest in 2 Decades, Survey Says” – Moscow Times
• JRL RUSSIAWATCH: “Putin’s approval rating falls to five-year low, poll suggests” – LevadaRu
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump Can’t Split Russia From China – Yet; As Beijing gets stronger, there may be hope for a Kissingerian maneuver” – Bloomberg/Hal Brands
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Four Years After Its Revolution, Ukraine Is Still a Mess; Lingering corruption and a lagging economy contributed to the country’s stalled reforms” – Bloomberg/Leonid Ragozin
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Are the FBI and CIA Hiding? The agency might have led the bureau down a rabbit hole in the 2016 Trump counterintelligence probe” – Wall Street Journal/Thomas J. Baker
• NEWSLINK: “It’s easier for Russia to recruit Americans today than it was during the Cold War; The spy game has changed, and is increasingly taking place in the daylight rather than in the shadows” – PoliticoEU/Alex Finley
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-141 :: Wednesday, 1 August 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia dumped 84% of its American debt. What that means” – CNN/Matt Egan
• RUSSIALINK: “Almost 80% of Belarusians don’t have negative attitude towards EU – poll” – Interfax
• Optics, Then Disappointment: Trump Can’t Deliver Much to Putin
• RUSSIALINK: “Venediktov quit Ekho board of directors to avoid conflict of interest over radio station’s budget” – Interfax
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-140 :: Tuesday, 31 July 2018
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “No, it wasn’t some hacker on a bed someplace; The Russia case opens a window on state-driven cyberconflict” – Washington Post Editorial
• RUSSIALINK: “Amazon Getting Ready to Launch ‘The Romanoffs’; The series breaks usual practices, formats, and genres” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Orthodox Church a ‘national security threat’ to Ukraine, says president; Petro Poroshenko said the Russian church was separated from the state ‘only on paper.'” – PoliticoEU/KAIT BOLONGARO
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia to play minor role, if any, in Paul Manafort trial” – AP
• RUSSLIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin] News conference following BRICS summit” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] 1030th anniversary of Baptism of Rus celebrations” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-139 :: Monday, 30 July 2018
• There is No “Reform” in Russia’s Recent “Pension Reform” Bill | Interview with Evgeny Gontmakher
• Trump Bump and Trump Filter Bubble: How the media’s obsession with Trump may encourage the Russian propaganda machine
• NEWSLINK: “The Elite Fixation With Russiagate; Does a broader public share this sense of crisis?” – The Nation/Aaron Maté
• RUSSIALINK: “7 Key Bills of the Russian Duma’s Spring Session” – Moscow Times
• NEWSLINK: “Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China; The former secretary of state pushed one president to use China to isolate the Soviet Union. These days, he’s counseling almost the reverse-and officials are listening” – Daily Beast/ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, ANDREW DESIDERIO, SAM STEIN, BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN
• NEWSLINK: “Putin wanted to interrogate me. Trump called it ‘an incredible offer.’ Why? When foreign affairs are, literally, personal.” – Washington Post/Michael McFaul
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin] Remarks at an expanded BRICS Summit meeting” – KremlinRu
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-138 :: Friday, 27 July 2018
• Elisabeth Schimpfossl: “New book: Rich Russians (OUP 2018)”
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-137 :: Thursday, 26 July 2018
• Angus Roxburgh: “The real facts about the Putin-Trump press conference”
• RUSSIALINK: “Western Sanctions on Russia’s Oil and Gas Sector: a Damage Assessment” – Carnegie Moscow/Tatiana Mitrova
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t forget Ukraine’s rural Donbas; War has taken its toll on rural areas under Ukrainian government control in Luhansk region. There’s little sign of relief or policy.” [Excerpt] – OpenDemocracy.net/Brian Milakovsky
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Novichok Was in a Perfume Bottle, U.K. Victim Says” – New York Times/Michael Schwirtz, Eric Schmitt
• NEWSLINK: “Putin’s Russia becomes Trump’s America” – Brookings/Elaine Kamarck
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia doesn’t pose threat to U.S., Russia is America’s rival, but not enemy – Kosachyov” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting with Healthcare Minister Veronika Skvortsova” – KremlinRu
• NEWSLINK: “A majority thinks Russia has dirt on Trump, a new poll shows” – CNBC/John W. Schoen
• RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-136 :: Wednesday, 25 July 2018
• Demography Being Abused in Russian Pension Age Debate, Vishnevsky Says
• RUSSIALINK: “BRICS leaders to discuss expansion at summit in S. Africa – Kremlin aide” – Interfax
• RUSSIALINK: “Large Russian Companies Are Turning Inward; The mobile operator Megafon’s plan to delist in London is the latest sign that the West is becoming inhospitable” – Leonid Bershidsky/Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Communists push for a national referendum against raising the retirement age” – Meduza
• NEWSLINK: “How Roads Could Win or Lose a War With Russia; Amid cries to increase NATO defense spending, many see investments in heavy vehicles and good roads as ways to deter Russia” – Popular Mechanics