Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#118 :: Tuesday 16 June 2015
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#118
Tuesday 16 June 2015
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1. AP: In east Ukraine psychiatric ward, war deepens mental wounds.
2. The Guardian: Amelia Gentleman, Patriotism, propaganda and parmesan: what do Muscovites really think? In the wake of the Ukraine crisis, the recession and sanctions, everyone in Moscow agrees life is changing dramatically – but that’s where the agreement ends. We asked four Muscovite families for their unvarnished opinions. (Part of the Guardian’s Moscow Week)
3. The National Interest: Paul Saunders, Why Arming Ukraine Is a Really Bad Idea. Advocates of arming Ukraine against Russia have failed to provide convincing arguments for why their course of action will produce the results they want, rather than something worse.
4. www.rt.com: Putin: 40+ ICBMs targeted for 2015 nuclear force boost.
5. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Why Russia Still Attracts Immigrants.
6. www.thedailybeast.com: Anna Nemtsova, Confessions of Moscow’s Last Independent Radio Newsman. In an exclusive interview, the courageous editor in chief of Echo of Moscow radio talks about his complex relations with Putin, and the scandal that’s shaken his station.
7. Paul Goble: Russians’ Social Bonds Increasing, Giving Them Resource for Protest, Schulmann Says.
8. Sputnik: Russian Central Bank Forecasts Unemployment to Reach 6.5% by End of 2015.
9. Moscow Times: Russia Embraces Yuan in Move Against U.S. Dollar Hegemony.
10. Moskovskiy Komsomolets: Russia’s economy is failing – expert. (Vladislav Inozemtsev)
11. Antiwar.com: Ivan Eland, Do the Russians Have a Perspective on G-7 Sanctions?
12. www.rt.com: Legal activists contest Putin’s decree classifying military casualties in peacetime.
13. www.opendemocracy.net: Svetlana Bolotnikova, Remembering Budyonnovsk.
14. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russian microwave cannon added to arms catalog. Just business, or a bit of bravado?
15. Sputnik: ‘Go Home’: Odessa Residents Rally Against New Governor.
16. Russia Direct: Nicolai Petro, What to expect from Saakashvili in Odessa. The former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili’s sudden appointment to the governorship of the Odessa region in Ukraine is primarily a domestic reshuffling of cadres in anticipation of further infighting among the various clans in Ukraine, rather than a policy decision aimed at Russia.
17. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, About That Batumi Miracle.
18. Business New Europe: Sergei Kuznetsov, MINSK BLOG: EU’s Belarus dilemma.
19. Moscow Times: British Explorers Aiming to Cross Bering Strait.
20. http://readrussia.com: Jim Kovpak, A Ukrainian Journey: Part II.
21. Euromaidan Press: Putin’s unrealizable dream vs. his all too-real nightmare.
22. Ukraine Today: ‘Ukraine is on road to becoming a model for other countries’, Samantha Power.
23. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk.
24. www.rt.com: ‘West’s foreign policy leaders – intellectual dwarfs compared to Cold War.’ (interview with Jan Oberg)
25. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Comment by the Information and Press Department on the US State Department’s Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments.
