RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-115 :: Wednesday, 22 June 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#115
Wednesday, 22 June 2016

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1. Buzzfeed: Senate Committee Looks To Revive Cold-War Era Body To Catch Russian Spies.
2. TASS: Russia remembers victims of Great Patriotic War on Day of Memory and Grief.
3. Kremlin.ru: Vladimir Putin addressed the State Duma’s plenary session.
4. www.rt.com: Putin: Russia will respond to ‘aggressive NATO rhetoric’
5. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, NOT SO DOOMED: RUSSIA IN 2018.
6. TASS: United Russia may give up candidate nomination in single-seat districts in favor of KPRF.
7. www.rt.com: Former Russian PM Kasyanov dismisses reports of split in party, sets sights on Duma seats.
8. Carnegie Moscow Center/Gazeta.ru: Andrei Kolesnikov, The Road From 1996: Russia’s Failure of Democracy. Boris Yeltsin’s reelection in 1996, hailed as a triumph of democracy, now looks like a Pyrrhic victory. The means by which the process was manipulated set a precedent for the Putin era.
9. US-Russia Business Council: Medvedev: Russian Government Creating Basis For Sustainable Growth.
10. TASS: Medvedev: Russian economy needs to be protected from dramatic fluctuations.
11. US-Russia Business Council: Inflation Outlook Improving.
12. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Net Exports Are Plunging.
13. Interfax: Sechin predicts oil price to reach $50-55 per barrel by end of 2016, $65 per barrel by end of 2017.
14. Wall Street Journal: IKEA Plans Upgrades, Expansion in Russia.
15. TechRepublic: From Russia with Tech: The top 5 most interesting Russian startups. Russian startups are going global, VC investment is skyrocketing, and companies are attracting millions of users. One expert explains the fastest growing, most important Russian companies to follow.
16. http://sk.ru: Medvedev: ‘Skolkovo is a fully-fledged city.’ Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised the progress of Skolkovo on Monday during a regular visit to the innovation city that he founded as president of Russia six years ago.
17. Wall Street Journal: Russia’s Venture-Capital Funds Look Abroad.
18. www.aljazeera.com: Russia revs up the business of space. Moscow counts down launch of private space sector in the shadows of prolific accomplishments of its Soviet past.
19. AP: Putin Heads to China to Cement Ties, but Obstacles Remain.
20. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, As Europe Shuns Russia, Putin Increasingly Embracing China.
21. Valdai Discussion Club: Timofei Bordachev, UNEASY NEIGHBORS: RUSSIA AND CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The 3 key areas of disagreement between Moscow and Damascus. Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Russia has been seen as a loyal ally to Bashar Assad, giving unwavering support to the Syrian president. Yet, the positions of Moscow and the Syrian regime are far from identical. Russia advocates a political solution to the crisis, whereas Assad sees war as the answer.
23. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, WPost’s ‘Agit-Prop’ for the New Cold War.
24. Fort Russ: Ivan Proshkin, Can Russia become a superpower?
25. Pravda.ru: The West leaves Russia no choice but to fight back.
26. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, All Russians Are Tainted by Putin’s Regime.
27. Ira Straus: Brexit: Russia’s national interest versus its nationalist interest.
28. Paul Goble: Five Rules for Living Through and Looking Beyond the Putin Stagnation.
29. Boston Globe: Scott Gilmore, Putin’s Russia is a poor, drunk soccer hooligan.
30. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, Is the US Pursuing a Rogue Policy by Waging Undeclared War Against Russia? Washington’s NATO buildup on Russia’s borders, its refusal to cooperate with Moscow in Syria and Ukraine, and its anti-Putin propaganda form an ominous pattern.

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