RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-129 :: Monday, 11 July 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#129
Monday, 11 July 2016
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1. www.rt.com: World champ Isinbayeva & other Russian athletes barred from Olympic Games.
2. TASS: Moscow suspects IAAF of not reading Russian athletes’ applications before refusing.
3. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Meet the stoligarchs, Putin’s pals who control a fifth of the Russian economy.
4. Fort Russ: Popov: Putin is purging the Russian ruling class to prevent a Ukrainian scenario.
5. www.rt.com: 24 parties to take part in September parliamentary polls – official.
6. US-Russia Business Council: Consumer Confidence Improves in June.
7. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, In the ‘lungs of Moscow’ forest, Russian civil activists make their mark. Runaway housing developments have been going up around Moscow, threatening the ‘lungs’ of the city – the ring forest around the capital. But locals have been fighting back against the project – with success.
8. The Irish Independent: Ray Kinsella, The militarisation of Europe is a far greater threat than Brexit.
9. Reuters: Factbox: Main Decisions of NATO’s Warsaw Summit.
10. Wall Street Journal: NATO to Tread Fine Line on Russia Following Summit. NATO military leaders face decisions on placement, command of new force.
11. www.rt.com: NATO ignores terror threat coming from south, demonizes Russia instead – Moscow.
12. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russian senator criticises “landmark” NATO summit. (Konstantin Kosachev)
13. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Russian columnist warns against “emotional response” to NATO. (Mikhail Rostovskiy)
14. Boston Globe: Simon Saradzhyan, Fixing Europe’s collective insecurity.
5. The National Interest: Harvey M. Sapolsky and Elizabeth S. Barnes, Warsaw: NATO’s Theater of the Absurd.
16. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, The Warsaw Summit and NATO’s Reckless Bluff.
17. Intellinews.com: Mark Galeotti, Nato is a symbol that Russia is always an outsider.
18. Consortiumnews.com: Graham Fuller, Europe’s NATO Ambivalence.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines/ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA: William Perry, Ex-Pentagon chief: Risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than in Cold War.
20. Interfax: Russia to agree on U.S. proposal to extend New START Treaty only on its terms – Komoyedov.
21. RFE/RL: Gorbachev: NATO Preparing For ‘Hot’ War Against Russia.
22. Russia Direct: Pavel Koshkin, Why the EU and Russia won’t be able to find common ground. Although some stakeholders within Russia and the EU may wish to revive economic ties, politics still trumps business.
23. Consortiumnews.com: Gareth Porter, A New Fight Over Syria War Strategy. President Obama has signaled a willingness to join Russia in going after Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria, but neocons and other hawks are fighting the policy shift.
24. The Unz Review: The Saker, Major Syria Developments Soon?
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Are Russia’s ‘anti-tobacco’ laws responsible for the decline of smoking? The number of smokers in Russia has fallen to a seven-year minimum. Currently, only one Russian in three smokes. But is this related to the country’s anti-smoking legislation, one of the harshest in the world? Or has the economic crisis played a role?
26. Russia Insider: Alexei Pankin, Poroshenko: There’s No God but the EU and Brussels Is His Prophet. If you want to understand what’s wrong with Ukraine’s ‘European choice’ read its president’s recent article ‘We believe in Europe’
27. USNews.com: Paul Shinkman, In Ukraine, a Wary Eye Toward America. Front-line troops and faraway locals agree: The U.S. should play a muted role in the country’s complex conflict with Russia.
28. Interfax: DPR reports dozens of destroyed houses in latest Ukraine’s army shell attacks.
29. Fort Russ: Fifth Column: Meet the most blatant propaganda channel receiving funds from the Russian treasury.
30. Paul Goble: Putin Regime Now in Trouble for Seven Reasons, Solovey Says
31. Washington Post: David Filipov named Moscow bureau chief.
32. Quartz: Arkady Ostrovsky, MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN. Vladimir Putin wrote and perfected Donald Trump’s political playbook 15 years ago.