RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#165 :: Friday 21 August 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#165
Friday – 21 August 2015
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1. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Russia and the Depression That Wasn’t.
2. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Some Day, We’ll Look Back at This, and Laugh.
3. Chess News: Lev Alburt, Vladimir Putin, America’s Reluctant Foe.
4. Moscow Times: Nudists in Despair as Moscow Authorities Move to Close Naturist Beach.
5. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Poets must reach out to ordinary people.
6. Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Running for Office in Siberia. A series on the District #35 Election for Novosibirsk City Council: Part III: Becoming an Official Independent Candidate.
7. Interfax: Embargoed food destruction backed by 42% of Russians, 38% against.
8. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, Russian ruble tumbles as oil prices tank.
9. www.rt.com: McDonald’s sent to Siberia.
10. Moscow Times: Russia’s ‘Foreign Agents’ Risk Losing Right to Run Media.
11. Interfax: Over two-thirds of Russians proud of country’s state symbols.
12. Russia Without BS: Jim Kovpak, 9 Year Anniversary Extravaganza. In honor of the 9-year anniversary of my move to Russia, I present my readers with…This long political rant. (response to Michael McFaul)
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines: TROIKA REPORT: Washington ups the ante with sanctions on Gazprom. RBTH presents its weekly analytical program TROIKA REPORT, featuring a look at three of the most high-profile recent developments in international affairs.
14. Carnegie Moscow Center: Konstantin Gaaze, The Changing Price of Loyalty: What does Vladimir Yakunin’s Resignation Signify?
15. TASS: Russian chief security official warns Kiev against resuming warfare.
16. TASS: Ukraine’s Donetsk republic says it has information on Kiev’s plans to encircle Donetsk.
17. Sputnik: Kiev’s Renewed Assault on Donbass to Trigger US-Russian War – Stephen Cohen.
18. The Vineyard of the Saker: The Saker, Is an Ukronazi attack imminent? Yes! So what else is new?
19. http://newcoldwar.org: Appeal on behalf of two Communist Party members on trial in Dnipetropetrovsk, Ukraine.
20. The Jerusalem Post: Israeli communist joins Ukrainian rebels to fight ‘fascists and neo-Nazis’
21. Sputnik: Where’s My Money? Half of Ukraine’s GDP Lost Due to Underground Economy.
22. http://newcoldwar.org: Collapse of Ukrainian exports to Russia and Europe in first six months of 2015. ‘To the shame of the once powerful industrial republic of Ukraine, in 2015, the country’s main export commodity has become corn.’
23. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Russian foreign minister answers media questions in Crimea.
24. www.rt.com: Russians & Ukrainians not brothers, Ukrainian president claims.
25. Bloomberg: Josh Rogin and Eli Lake, U.S. Told Ukraine to Stand Down as Putin Invaded.
26. New York Times editorial: Putin vs. Parmesan.
27. RFE/RL: Unlike Stalin’s Show-Trial Victims, Russia’s Political Defendants Don’t Back Down.
28. The Hill: Pentagon chief: Russia is a ‘very significant threat’
29. Vice.com: The US Army’s Top General Points a Spear at Russia. “We know the Russians are getting ready for something. We just don’t know where.” (General Raymond Odierno)
30. TASS: NATO airborne forces’ military exercise produces resounding effect in Russia.
31. www.rt.com: Kissinger: ‘Breaking Russia has become objective for US’
32. The National Interest: We Asked John Mearsheimer: What Should Be the Purpose of American Power?