RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#170 :: Friday 28 August 2015
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#170
Friday – 28 August 2015
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1. www.rt.com: Who slipped? How fake report on ‘Russian soldier deaths’ in Ukraine set MSM on fire.
2. Moscow Times: Russians Consider Marrying, Giving Birth and Education Most Important Things.
3. Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Running for Office in Siberia: Part IV: History, Perspective and the Components of a Modern Campaign.
4. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Can Russia’s only independent election monitor survive Kremlin pressure? Three years ago, Russia unveiled a law effectively requiring NGOs to refuse any foreign funding. Electoral watchdog Golos has complied, but is still on the Kremlin’s blacklist.
5. Izvestia: Russian daily discusses proposals for NGO law overhaul.
6. Magyar Nemzet (Budapest): Analyst explains Russia’s position in multipolar world in Hungarian interview. (Fyodor Lukyanov)
7. The National Interest: Paul Saunders, How the U.S. Can Help Solve the Ukraine Crisis: Treat Ukraine Like Georgia? The George W. Bush administration’s approach to Georgia in 2008 could work well for the Obama administration in 2015.
8. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Government members. Vladimir Putin met with Government members to discuss current economic development matters.
9. www.rt.com: Russia accepted over 1mn Ukrainian refugees forced out of homes by Donbass war.
10. www.rt.com: Ukraine’s Poroshenko says ‘no Minsk-3’ as Moscow hopes for ceasefire.
11. Business New Europe: Ben Aris, KYIV BLOG: Ukraine not out of the woods yet.
12. The Economist: Ukraine’s debt restructuring. Tinkering around the edges. Ukraine’s deal with its creditors is less impressive than it appears.
13. Rossiya 1 TV (Moscow): Russian finance minister insists on full repayment of Ukrainian debt.
14. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Ukraine: The Market Does Not Care About Your Values.
15. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, Ukraine Reaches Agreement With Creditors – But the Figures Don’t Add Up. Ukraine secured only half the write-off it wanted and the amount involved doesn’t seem enough to fill the hole in its IMF programme.
16. Business New Europe: Sergei Kuznetsov, Ukraine’s wartime privatisation.
17. Kyiv Post: Russian flags found in Odesa police chief’s office during arrest for corruption.
18. TASS: Putin to lead Russian delegation at 70th session of UN General Assembly.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s new press head is a breath of fresh air. Experts and journalists have been commenting on Maria Zakharova’s recent appointment as head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information Department. Zakharova has asked journalists to view her social media posts as an expert opinion rather than as ministry statements.
20. TASS: US demarche against No. 3 in Russian politics harms bilateral relations. (Sergei Rogov)
21. Euromaidan Press/Radio Liberty: The state of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
22. Wall Street Journal: Russia Shows Off Military Might as Budget Gets Squeezed. Drive to modernize forces gets scaled back amid economic woes, Ukraine sanctions.
23. Russia Direct: How Russia, the West should tackle frozen conflicts in post-Soviet space. Russia Direct releases a new report that analyzes the strategic factors that could play a major role in determining the outcome of not only the Ukraine crisis, but also the frozen conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and Nagorno-Karabakh.
24. Moscow Times: Yakov M. Rabkin, Canada’s ‘Victims of Communism’ Debacle.
25. www.israelnationalnews.com: Inna Rogatchi, Old Hate in the New Ukraine: Neo-Nazification in Progress. The shocking renaming of streets for Nazi collaborators is reminiscent of Abbas naming streets for terrorist murderers of Jews.
26. www.israelnationalnews.com: Inna Rogatchi, What About Those Jews? Ukrainian Neo-Nazism and Culture Offensive. The Ukraine has its own way of dealing with Jewish victims of the Nazis and current writers and scientists who do not think the right way.
27. Washington Post: Charles Krauthammer, What six years of ‘reset’ have wrought.
28. Washington Post: Sergei Guriev, Russia’s food burning campaign is an irrational show of control.
29. Paul Goble: Like Stalin, Putin hasn’t Changed the Rules of the Game; He’s Destroyed Them, Portnikov Says.
30. Washington Post: Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, A small measure of justice for Boris Nemtsov.
31. www.politico.eu: EU declares information war on Russia. Task force will start trying to win hearts and minds in eastern partnership countries next month.
32. Opednews.com: Angela Borozna, The evolution of the West’s negative narrative about Russia,
33. The Joint Baltic American Committee (JBANC): DECISION 2016: The Presidential Candidates on Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics.
34. The Daily Caller: Russia Is Such A Backwater Dump Nobody Wants To Study It Anymore.
