Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#134 :: Wednesday 8 July 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#134
Wednesday 8 July 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Huffington Post: Dan Kovalik, Rethinking Russia: A Conversation With Russia Scholar Stephen F. Cohen.
2. Valdai Discussion Club: Mary Dejevsky, On the Chatham House Russia Report.
3. Levada.ru: Most Russian see no threat of mass protest, authorities unaccountable – poll.
4. Moscow Times: Chris Weafer, How Much Have Sanctions Really Hurt Russia?
5. Levada.ru: One in six Russians opposed to all forms of censorship – poll.
6. Moscow Times: Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Favor Decent Wages Over Free Speech.
7. Moscow Times: 7 New Laws That Will Change the Face of Russia.
8. Russia Direct: Alexey Kolinsky, The case of an American vice-rector: A blow to Russian soft power. Russia seems to keep isolating itself from the West through misguided decisions. Case in point: the dismissal of a high-profile foreigner attempting to help build Russia’s innovation economy.
9. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Navalny Hearts Trouble.
10. www.rt.com: Upper House drafts first list of 12 undesirable foreign groups.
11. Interfax: Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights slams law on “foreign agents”
12. RFE/RL: IS Boosts Russian-Language Propaganda Efforts.
13. www.rt.com: 2,200 jihadists from Russia fight in Syria, Iraq – Russian Foreign Ministry.
14. Interfax: Putin says Russia can overcome difficulties in intl politics, economy by pooling efforts with China.
15. Moscow Times: Russia Searches for Post-G8 Footing at BRICS Summit.
16. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, Ufa – The Summit That Is Re-Making the World. The coming summit underlines the gap that is emerging between East and West; whilst the West squabbles over Greece, in the Russian city of Ufa a new world is being made.
17. Carnegie Moscow Center: Why Do Brazil, Russia, India, and China need BRICS? (ALEXANDER GABUEV, ANDREY MOVCHAN, PETR TOPYCHKANOV, SERGEI VASILIEV)
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian weapons face West’s economic wall. Despite being technologically ahead, Russian weapons face a virtual ban in the West. However, the picture is entirely different in Asia.
19. New York Times: Russian Belts Tighten, Affecting Tastes for the Finer Things.
20. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How culture continues to bring Russians and Americans together. In an RBTH exclusive, Mary Ellen Koenig, Cultural Attaché to the U.S. Embassy in the Russian Federation, writes about the special unifying bond that culture can provide between Russia and the United States even in times when official relations between the two countries are tense.
21. Moscow Times: Angelina Jolie Buys Rights to Film About Catherine the Great and Her Lover.
22. Paul Goble: Russia Can No Longer Afford to Be the Militarist and Expansionist Power It has Always Been, Shevtsova Says.

UKRAINE

23. TASS: DPR, LPR militiamen no terrorists – Russian Foreign Ministry.
24. AFP: Russia cuts off power supplies to Ukraine rebels: Kiev.
25. DPA: OSCE hopes for new accord on withdrawing weapons in Ukraine conflict.
26. Russia Insider: Ivan Katchanovski, Additional Evidence Kiev Sniper Massacre Was a False Flag Keeps Coming Out. The official investigation isn’t going anywhere, but more new evidence keeps coming out in the media that contradicts the accepted narrative.
27. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists.
28. Russia Direct: John Pedler, The US, Russia might replace confrontation with cooperation. Recent efforts at dialogue between top Russian and U.S. diplomats offer real hope that Russia and the U.S. could finally be seeking an end to their confrontation over Ukraine.
29. Médecins Sans Frontières: Ukraine: “If you scratch the surface a little bit, people are traumatised.”
30. http://newcoldwar.org: Residents of village in Lugansk, without electricity for nine months, demand that Ukraine cease shelling.
31. Sputnik: Poroshenko Makes Donbass Increasingly Hate Ukraine – German Media.
32. www.rt.com: Ukraine: self-proclaimed Donbass republics call for UN war crimes probe.
33. Financial Times: Former Georgia president shakes up Odessa.
34. Interfax-Ukraine: Ukrainian Navy can be headquartered in Trade Unions House “according to wartime laws” – Saakasvhili.
35. TASS: Trade unions protest against Saakashvili’s move to hand Odessa building to Ukraine’s Navy.
36. Wall Street Journal: Eastern Ukraine Refugees Worry They Came Home Too Soon. Some who came back to after cease-fire now live in fear of renewed fighting.
37. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Viktor Baranets, Ukraine ‘Discovers’ Five Russian Generals in Novorossiya; Ukrainian Security Service Concocts Latest ‘Canard’ for United States.
38. Counterpunch.org: Halyna Mokrushyna, Orator Poroshenko and the Dead Souls.
39. Financial Times: Taras Kuzio, Ukraine’s citizens have defeated Putin’s “New Russia” – now Poroshenko must defeat Ukraine’s oligarchs.