RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#2 :: Monday 4 January 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#2
Monday 4 January 2016
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1. RFE/RL: Hard Times: Five Russians’ Hopes, Fears For 2016.
2. World Economic Forum: Which country has the most engineering graduates?
3. Gazeta.ru: Russia’s 2015 agenda dominated by foreign policy over internal issues. (editorial)
4. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Russia’s economic minister cautiously optimistic in year-end interview. (Aleksey Ulyukayev)
5. Gazeta.ru: Russian pundit views current regime, likely future scenarios. (Gleb Pavlovskiy)
6. Sputnik: Weak Ruble to Help Russia Withstand Low Oil Prices.
7. Sputnik: Russia Oil Output Rises to New Record High in 2015.
8. The National Interest: Nikolay Pakhomov, The Truth About Sanctions Against Russia. Western sanctions have failed to deliver a ‘devastating blow’ but they also seem here to stay.
9. Russia Direct: Yuri Barmin, What to expect from Russia’s Syria policy in 2016. Moscow has been relying on hard power in Syria over the last three months and risks falling into a trap of over-reliance on it next year. While this strategy has yielded some results, such as engaging the U.S.-led coalition into more decisive talks, in 2016 the same approach is likely to prove its inefficiency.
10. The Unz Review: The Saker, Week Thirteen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: Debunking the Lies.
11. The National Interest: Thomas Fedyszyn, What Russia Said About NATO and Why It Matters.
12. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Collapse of Ukraine’s Economy in Five Charts.
13. Sputnik: Over 400,000 Ukrainians Ready to Integrate Into Russian Society.
14. www.rt.com: Crimeans vote to give up electricity contract with Ukraine even if it means more power cut-offs.
15. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Russia Gives Ukraine A Break On Fuel Costs, But Prices Likely Going Lower Anyway.
16. www.thedailybeast.com: Anna Nemtsova, Khodorkovsky: From Russian Multi-Billionaire to ‘Murderer’? Putin just hates this guy. Jailed for more than a decade, then forced into exile, the former head of Yukos oil is now charged with murder.
17. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, The Unbearable Unseemliness of Partnership. (re Jim Hoagland)
18. Medium: Dominic Basulto, What Russia wants in 2016: A new world order.
19. The Atlantic: Jeffrey Taylor, The World According to Russia. A documentary on state television gives a glimpse of Vladimir Putin’s philosophy.
20. Sic Semper Tyrannis: David Habakkuk, An alternative foreign policy.
21. Consortiumnews.com: Gilbert Doctorow, Hearing the Russian Perspective.
