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• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: Zelenskyy says without U.S. aid ‘we’ll have no chance of winning’” – PBS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: Russia restoring oil refining capacity knocked out by drones” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why President Zelensky Is Purging His Inner Circle” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Konstantin Skorkin
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Ready for Painful Concessions” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin says 2022 draft document could serve as starting point for future Ukraine peace talks” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin; Farm exports and freight are the problems” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine ‘will lose the war’ if U.S. fails to approve aid, says Zelensky” – CNN
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?” – The Nation: Lev Golinkin
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “IOC wins as top Western nations agree to Russians in Paris” -Deutsche Welle
• RUSSIALINK: “Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Who Fled Country Have Returned, Russia Says” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia, China to Work on ‘Double Counteracting’ U.S.-Led Alliance” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Help Ukraine Hold the Line” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin and Xi’s Unholy Alliance; Why the West Won’t Be Able to Drive a Wedge Between Russia and China” – Foreign Affairs: Alexander Gabuev
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Battling Under a Canopy of Drones” – The New Yorker
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The growing anger of Ukraine’s mutilated soldiers” – Le Monde
• The Crocus Attack May End the Ban on the Death Penalty in Russia
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian quarterly budget revenues rise more than half amid high oil prices” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Do Russians Believe Putin’s Propaganda?” – Time
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden Tells Ukraine Not to Hit Russia; The White House fears attacks on refineries inside Russia could raise global prices.” – WSJ
• Russia in Review, March 29-April 5, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Analysis: A New Phase of the War, March 29th, 2024” – Mikael Valtersson: Twitter
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Next Escalation Is Coming” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian women demand demobilisation of ‘exhausted’ loved ones” – The Times (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Ukraine’s tech army is taking the fight to Russia” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Wants to Show Support for Ukraine, but Only So Much” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Extortion, threats, fear, traitors: How Russia recruits Ukrainian spies” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian military ‘almost completely reconstituted,’ U.S. official says” -Defense News
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia presses for answers from West over Nord Stream blasts” – Reuters
• TRANSCRIPT: Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Darius Rochebin of LCI/TF1 [Excerpt]
• Record Spring Heat Grips Moscow
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian disinformation on Ukraine has grown in scale and skill, warns Berlin” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was possible target of attack” – Washington Post
• RUSSIALINK: “U.S. Warnings ‘Too General’ to Prevent Crocus Attack, Russia’s Spy Chief Says” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S., NATO Preparing for ‘All Contingencies’ Amid Russia War Threat” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine is not losing; U.S. assistance must continue” – The Hill: Evelyn N. Farkas
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Havana syndrome’ might have been a Russian attack. The U.S. can’t stop investigating.” – Washington Post
• RUSSIALINK: “Always Say До Свидания, Never Прощайте” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow attack: ‘The Russian population seems doomed to endure the Kremlin’s hunt for imaginary threats'” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is the problem Putin’s Russia or Mother Russia?” – The Hill: Alexander J. Motyl
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Troop-Starved Ukrainian Brigades Turn to Marketing to Attract Recruits” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Obstacles to Diplomacy in Ukraine; Russia’s Extreme Demands — and Ukraine’s Desire to Survive — Make Negotiations Unlikely” – Foreign Affairs
• Crocus Attack Ends Lull of Six Years, Raises Question About Law-Enforcers’ Focus
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections” – New York Times
• TRANSCRIPT: On-the-Record Press Gaggle by White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby [Excerpt]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The mood in wartime Ukraine: Weariness, resolve, and exasperation” – Atlantic Council
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs to open up about hard truths from battlefield, US diplomat says” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
• RUSSIALINK: “Russian Rights Chief Says Torturing Concert Attack Suspects ‘Inadmissible'” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Ukraine Needs from NATO: Advanced Weapons — and Clarity on What Membership Will Require” – Foreign Affairs: Ivo Daalder, Karen Donfried
• Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia ‘spreading slurs against Princess of Wales'” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “For Putin, Even a Terrorist Attack Is a Chance to Spread Misinformation” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Ukraine obsession has blinded him to dangers at home” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Expect more strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News” – ABC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attack on Russian Concert Hall Threatens Putin’s Strongman Image” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine” – Washington Post 12.4.23
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Warned About Possible Moscow Attack Before Concert Hall Shooting; Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” -New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute; In search of the perfect partner to derail Russian aggression” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Growing Tired of War; The people may cheer Putin, but they are increasingly resentful of the sacrifices he asks them to make.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia is winning the global grain war; And it’s turning EU countries against Ukraine in the process.” – PoliticoEU
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia says it is pushing Ukrainian forces back, will create two new armies” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Threat Forces Europe to Choose: Bolster Defense or Protect Social Spending” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t defund the fight against Russia and China’s disinformation” – Washington Post
• State Department: “On Russia’s Presidential Elections”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Americans Still See China as Nation’s Top Foe, Russia Second” – Gallup
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How can democracies respond to rigged elections?” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
• Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow hopes frozen assets swap scheme will benefit Russian stocks” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
• West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
• RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Bans Entry to 227 Americans for ‘Anti-Russian’ Actions” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The drama in Russia’s election is all about what Putin will do with another 6 years in power” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Russian Elite in a Frenzy Over Their Political Futures” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Plays Down Threat of Nuclear War” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
• 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War; Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine scrambles to fill U.S. funding gap” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Pumping Out Weapons—but Can It Keep It Up?” – WSJ
• VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
• RUSSIALINK: “’20 Days in Mariupol’ Brings First Oscar Home to Ukraine” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow plans its own mini-Olympics. Will Russians be satisfied?” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Big Lesson From the West’s Last Invasion of Russia” – Foreign Policy: Theodore Bunzel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Burning Up Its Future” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe is at last adjusting to the new reality in Ukraine” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Enters New Phase of War With Russia: Dig, Dig, Dig” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Free Boris Kagarlitsky: The Nation joins the global appeal for his release” – The Nation: Katrina Vanden Heuvel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia; To Prevail, Washington Must Revive Containment” – Foreign Affairs: Max Bergmann, Michael Kimmage, Jeffrey Mankoff, Maria Snegovaya
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t seize: capitalise; How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine; Exploit them to the full, but legally” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Sending troops to Ukraine: A necessary but badly presented debate” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield could make the war more dangerous for Russia” – CNBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance” – Washington Post
• Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken: “On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland”
• Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Can No Longer Hesitate on Ukraine” – Foreign Policy: Alexander Vershbow
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years After Russia Invaded Ukraine: Q&A with RAND Experts” – RAND
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Six-Year Manifesto Sets Sights Beyond Ukraine” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s resilience to sanctions shows it is ‘costly and unattainable’ to isolate a large and globally integrated economy, economist says” – Business Insider
• The War in Ukraine in a Transitional World Order
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Sees Risk of Russia Breaking Through Defenses by Summer” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Frontline Is Collapsing” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Navalny’s Funeral to Be Held on Friday, Spokeswoman Says” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin propagandists attack director of new ‘Master and Margarita’ film captivating Russians” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death” – New York Times:
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine? Eight thinkers shed light on the state of the war” – Foreign Policy
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Experts analyze state of Ukraine war 2 years into Russia’s invasion [Michael Kofman, John Mearsheimer and Rebeccah Heinrichs]” – PBS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine War: China’s Vanishing Neutrality” – The Diplomat
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two years on, is Ukraine’s military faltering?” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?” – WSJ
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: The Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine” – CSIS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky Says 31,000 Ukrainian Troops Killed in Two Years of War” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A War Putin Still Can’t Win” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Deepening Fog of War” – New York Times
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Meet the Press [interview with Jake Sullivan]” – NBC
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “State Dept. official [Victoria Nuland]: If Putin wins Ukraine, tyrants ‘will get hungry’ with aspirations” – PBS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Already Lost” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Unveils Biggest Sanctions Package on Russia Since War Began” – Bloomberg
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy appeals to Trump, Congress to see ‘tragedy’ of Russia invasion in exclusive Bret Baier interview” – Fox
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leadership Change in Russia: Contingency Planning Memorandum” – Council on Foreign Relations: Liana Fix, Maria Snegovaya
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Unpredictable Strongman? Two Years Into War, Putin Embraces the Image.” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War” – The Nation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “After two years of war, Russia finds itself frozen, but transformed” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Biggest Ever Sanctions Have Failed to Halt Russia’s War Machine” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “2024 ASEEES CONVENTION THEME: Liberation” – Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Seizing Frozen Russian Assets Over Ukraine War Wins Endorsement of Legal Experts” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine” – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Does the West’s Ukraine policy need a reality check?” – Brookings
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “No One Wants Ukraine to Win; Trump opposes the aid package, while Biden never calls for an outright victory.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war has cost Russia up to $211 billion, Pentagon says” – Defense News
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Military Spy Chief Says Russia Will Struggle to Keep Up the Fight” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian victories shake global leaders’ faith in Ukraine war prospects” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Despair in Russia as Putin Spirals Out of Control” – Daily Beast
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Avdiivka, Longtime Stronghold for Ukraine, Falls to Russians” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Putin Threatens, Despair and Hedging in Europe” – New York Times
• Like Hitler Before Him, Putin has Had to Go to War to Try to Save His Regime — but He Won’t Succeed, El Murid Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden, lawmakers hammer Ukraine aid holdouts after Navalny death” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants; What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “With Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition loses its last leader” – Christian Science Monitor
• Russia in Review, Feb. 9-15, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Says He Prefers Biden Over Trump. Commentators Are Skeptical.” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What would a NATO war with Russia look like? How the UK is rehearsing” – The Times (UK)
• UKRAINELINK: “A Long War Made Longer by the West’s Unaddressed Mistakes” – Kennan Institute: Victor Andrusiv
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Battle for Avdiivka tests Ukraine’s new commander” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Means for the War in Ukraine” – Council on Foreign Relations
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why NATO Needs Ukraine: Kyiv’s Survival and Europe’s Security Depend on a More Unified Front” – Foreign Affairs: Alina Polyakova, James Goldgeier
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds” – CNBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s Obsession With History Led Him to Start a War” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky’s Military Shake-Up Ties Him to Battlefield Performance” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Military Balance 2024” – International Institute for Strategic Studies
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Seeks Revenge on a World Order He Once Wanted to Join” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “IMF warns that any action on Russian assets needs ‘sufficient legal support'” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian justice tested as collaboration cases mount” – AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold for ‘the hardest job in the world'” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSLINK: “Russia in Review, Feb. 2-9, 2024” – Russia Matters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Former CIA Analyst Issues Warning to Zelensky” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Hours of Unchallenged Propaganda From Putin” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine sacks its top soldier” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “National Security Expert Fiona Hill Says Russia ‘Will Always Matter’ at HKS Event” – The Harvard Crimson
• RUSSIALINK: “‘The Master and Margarita’: From Favorite Novel to Blockbuster Film” – Moscow Times
• De-Centering Russia
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump, Putin, Carlson and the Shifting Sands of Today’s American Politics” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in rambling interview, barely lets Tucker Carlson get a word in” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Poll Sends Worrying Message to Zelensky” – Newsweek
• Filtering the News: Why Russians Prefer Propaganda and Shield Themselves from Independent Reporting
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Peace in Ukraine; What a Ukraine peace deal might look like.” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Tucker Carlson Has Interviewed Putin in Moscow, Kremlin Says” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Zelensky, Facing Rising Challenges, Touts Leadership Overhaul” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s war economy going; That holds future lessons for America” – The Economist
• RIP: Roger Kanet
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany Braces for Decades of Confrontation With Russia” – New York Times