RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-108 :: Wednesday, 15 June 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#108
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

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“PUTIN’S RUSSIA”

1. www.foreignpolicy.com: Putin Steals Oppo Files on Most Pro-Putin 2016 Candidate.
2. Crowdstrike: Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee. [DJ: The source.]
3. House Foreign Affairs Committee: Hearing: U.S. Policy Toward Putin’s Russia.
4. RFE/RL: Former U.S. Ambassadors Spar Over Russia, NATO, Ukraine.
5. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: Opening Statement of Rep. Edward R. Royce, Chairman.
6. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: Testimony of Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
7. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: Testimony of Michael McFaul.
8. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: Testimony of Leon Aron.
9. Council on Foreign Relations: Stephen Sestanovich, Is President Vladimir Putin on a roll or on the ropes? Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections: A Putin Scorecard.
10. Foreign Affairs: Philip M. Breedlove, NATO’s Next Act. How to Handle Russia and Other Threats.
11. Center for European Policy Analysis: Edward Lucas, Warsaw Summit and war games.
12. Newsweek.com: Owen Matthews, VLADIMIR PUTIN’S SECRET WEAPON. When Putin returned to the presidency in 2012 after a spell as prime minister there were protests both for and against him, and his popularity dipped as low as 62 percent.
13. Moscow Times: Gleb Pavlovsky, Russia’s New Politicization: How Putin Trumped Politics.
14. Kennan Institute: Maxim Trudolyubov, Getting Each Other Wrong.
15. The Korea Times: Andrei Kolesnikov, Secret of Putin’s survival.
16. Carnegie Moscow Center: Denis Volkov, Duma Elections: Crimea Effect Caps Protest Potential.
17. Free Russia: Vladimir Milov, FROM DISAPPROVAL TO CHANGE. Russia’s Population May Surprise Putin at the Next Elections.
18. The Daily Signal: Luke Coffey, Putin Has Imperial (Not Soviet) Aspirations.
19. Stratfor.com: Lauren Goodrich, Putin’s Choice.
20. Paul Goble: Russia Might Not Be a Failed State But It is a Failed Country, Shtepa Says.
21. Atlantic Council: Odious Film about Russian Whistle-Blower Screens at Newseum.
22. www.opendemocracy.net: Péter Krekó and Lóránt Győri, Don’t ignore the left! Connections between Europe’s radical left and Russia. Europe’s radical left is connected personally and politically to the Kremlin.
23. Carnegie Moscow Center: Andrei Kolesnikov, Do Russians Want War? War and terrorism have become increasingly routine facts of life in Russia. Since 2014, this reality has become an essential tool for stimulating popular support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
24. The New York Review of Books: Timothy Snyder, The Wars of Vladimir Putin.
25. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, The Daily Vertical: The Baltics Remember, Russia Forgets.

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