RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#224 :: Tuesday 17 November 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#224
Tuesday 17 November 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Sputnik: Putin Orders Heightened Domestic Security Measures – Kremlin.
2. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia Isn’t (And Wasn’t) Isolated.
3. Moscow Times: Russia to Cooperate With West and Syrian Opposition Groups – Putin.
4. Wall Street Journal: Vladimir Putin Suggests Russia’s Isolation From the West Is Ending.
5. Financial Times: Putin transformed from outcast to problem solver at G20.
6. Kremlin.ru: Meeting on investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner over Sinai.
7. Kremlin.ru: Responses to journalists’ questions following the G20 summit.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: G20 summit in Turkey: What were the 4 major events for Russia? Following the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey on Nov. 15-16, RBTH presents an overview of the four most interesting events and statements concerning Russia made at the meeting of world leaders.
9. The Economist: Russia, the West and Islamist attacks. All latest updates. Terror in Paris is pushing Russia and the West closer together.Uneasy bedfellows.
10. Defensenews.com: Could US and Russia Enhance Intel Relationship?
11. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia and the Anti-Terrorist Struggle.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: APEC: Toward open, equal cooperation in the interests of development. Ahead of the APEC summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for regional economic partnership as a way of speeding up economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region.
13. Russia Direct: Artem Nureev, Russian plane crash in Egypt: Terror in the sky and its impact on Kremlin. The Russian security services confirm that the crash of the Russian passenger airline in Egypt is a result of terror attack. To what extent will this be successful in intimidating the Kremlin?
14. Wall Street Journal: Russia Launches Airstrikes Against Islamic State’s Syrian Stronghold. Pentagon confirms Russia notified U.S. before starting airstrikes in Raqqa.
15. TASS: No ground forces take part in Russia’s military operation in Syria – Kremlin.
16. Christian Science Monitor: Will Islamic State attacks bolster prospects for political solution in Syria?
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Syrian solution demands truly inclusive compromise. Russia’s ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, argues that the impasse over any role President Bashar al-Assad plays in the future of his country must not be allowed to derail peace talks after three years of bloody fighting.
18. Antiwar.com: Patrick Buchanan, Is Putin Our Ally in Syria?
19. Wall Street Journal: Stephen Sestanovich, More Sympathy for Paris Attack Victims Than Russian Terror Victims?
20. CNN.com: Olga Oliker, Why Paris attacks won’t transform U.S.-Russia cooperation.
21. Russia Direct: The Middle East after the Arab Spring, more divided than ever. Experts at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences presented an analysis of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. The main causes of these conflicts appear to be deeply divided local societies rather than external factors.
22. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexey Malashenko, Exorcising Chechnya: Kadyrov and the Islamic State.
23. www.opendemocracy.net: Dmitry Okrest, Stalin’s back. With new monuments and museums afoot, Russians are warming again to Stalin’s legacy. But is there any communist content to post-communist nostalgia?
24. TASS: Sberbank assesses current situation in Russia’s banking sector as massive crisis.
25. Interfax: Russia ready to support global emissions’ halving by 2050 at Paris Climate.
26. RFE/RL: EU Mulls Direct Talks With Russian-Led Economic Bloc, Angering Some EU Members.
27. Moscow Times: Operatic Account of Russia’s Yukos Drama to Premiere in Vienna.
28. TASS: Moscow’s offer to restructure Ukraine’s $3 bln debt means only start of uneasy talks.
29. US Naval Institute: CSIS Panel: Russia Still Dangerous in its Decline.
30. Institute of Modern Russia: IMR to Participate in 47th Annual ASEEES Convention in Philadelphia.
31. Institute of Modern Russia: Moscow Chief Beneficiary of Paris Terrorist Attacks, Ukrainian Security Analysts Say.