RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-107 :: Tuesday, 14 June 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#107
Tuesday, 14 June 2016

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1. EUObserver: Few Europeans see Russia as ‘major’ threat.
2. www.rt.com: Europeans shun militarization & see terrorism, not Russia as biggest threat – Pew poll.
3. Russia Direct: Russia’s view of the Orlando tragedy, Euro 2016 and Russia Day. Russian media roundup: The mass shooting in Orlando, Euro 2016 and the Russia Day celebration on June 12 all made headlines in Russia last week.
4. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Vladimir Fortov and Mikhail Kotyukov. (Academy of Sciences)
5. TASS: Researchers evaluate academic mobility of Russian scientists.
6. The National Interest: Judy Twigg, Russia Is Losing Its Best and Brightest. Highly educated Russians are racing for the exits-but does Putin care?
6a. Wall Street Journal: Edward Luttwak, Weaken Putin With a Russian Brain Drain. President Obama could immediately make it easy for the best and brightest to get special U.S. visas.
7. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Macroeconomic Position Is Stable, For Now.
8. Interfax: Economy ministry expects rate cut to have moderate impact, sees room for further cut.
9. RussEurope: Jacques Sapir, Substituting for imports in Russia.
10. Reuters: Exxon CEO back at Russia shindig after hiatus over Ukraine: sources.
11. Interfax: Sanctions agenda may be discussed during Putin-Juncker meeting at SPIEF.
12. Russia Insider: UN Urges Russia to Change ‘Foreign Agent’ Law – to Request the Same of US. No, of course they won’t do that: they’ll ask Russia to remove its version of the longstanding US Foreign Agents Registration Act but won’t ask the same of the US.
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Survey: 1 in 4 Russians believes Russia is a great power.
14. www.rt.com: Euro 2016: Russia handed €150k fine, may be disqualified if more fan violence.
15. Reuters: NATO to agree eastern force to deter Russia, some allies want more.
16. www.rt.com: Russia to counter NATO buildup in Eastern Europe – Duma official.
17. Consortiumnews.com: Gilbert Doctorow, Pushing the Doomsday Clock to Midnight.
18. RFE/RL: Report: U.S., Russia Slowly Reducing Nuclear Arsenals.
19. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, US and Russia benefit as global arms race picks up.
20. Russia Direct: Nikolay Vlasov, Russia and Germany: Where are we headed? There are few, if any, signs that Russian-German relations will improve over the next few years. While both sides do not want a further deterioration in relations, there is little momentum for any significant softening in either side’s stance.
21. AP: Russia says it will not attend historic all-Orthodox meeting.
22. TASS: Russian Church official: let’s not dramatize the Pan-Orthodox Council situation.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Pravmir.ru: Andrei Molotov, Why even the Pan-Orthodox Council isn’t common ground for Orthodox churches. An attempt to demonstrate the unity of Ecumenical Orthodoxy has shown, conversely, a deep split and rivalry between the various churches, with inter-church disputes throwing plans to convene in Crete into jeopardy.
24. http://theduran.com: Trump Revokes Washington Post Press Credentials. Democratic Party Consultant Blames Putin [Video]
25. www.rt.com: ‘Beyond good & evil’: Russian FM spokeswoman slams homophobic comments on Orlando massacre.
26. TASS: Orlando attack could sway US presidential campaign – Russian lawmaker.
27. Moscow Times: Life Through a Different Lens: Moscow’s Jewish Film Festival.
28. Reuters: Russian hooligans see themselves as Kremlin foot soldiers.
29. TASS: Fan leader says detained Russians in France not tied to Marseille violence.
30. Antony Penaud: How the reporting of the British media changed during the Marseille cashes.
31. Julia Svetlichnaja: The fallout from the conduct and conclusions of the Litvinenko Inquiry.
32. New York Times: Masha Gessen, The Soviet Union Is Gone. Why Do Lenin Statues Remain?
33. The New Yorker: Masha Gessen, How to Break Out of Russia’s Political Prisons.
34. Fort Russ: Know Your History: Russia’s 12 Big Dates since 1991.
35. National Public Radio: ‘Invention Of Russia’ Chronicles The Fall Of The USSR To Today. (Arkady Ostrovsky)
36. Wall Street Journal: Alison Anderson on books about Russia.
37. http://journal-neo.org: Phil Butler, What If Vladimir Putin Does Know a “Third Way” for Society?

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