RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-131 :: Wednesday, 13 July 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#131
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

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1. www.news-decoder.com: Daria Kuznetsova, BARABINSK, SIBERIA: MY HOMETOWN.
2. TASS: Putin: nation-wide tasks cannot be solved without project approach.
3. The RAND Corporation: The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model. Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It.
4. www.rt.com: No regrets: Almost all Crimean residents support reunification with Russia.
5. www.rt.com: Only 9% of Germans back NATO buildup in Eastern Europe – poll.
6. Der Spiegel: Russian Foreign Policy. ‘We Are Smarter, Stronger and More Determined.’ Relations between Russia and NATO are deteriorating. Kremlin foreign policy advisor Sergey Karaganov speaks with SPIEGEL about the risk of war, NATO’s aggressive posturing and the West’s inability to understand Russian values.
7. Izvestia: Summit of paradoxes. Political analyst Vladimir Kornilov on how the subject of Ukraine was played out at the Warsaw NATO summit.
8. Salon.com: Patrick Lawrence, The West escalates with Russia: Make no mistake, a second Cold War is now official NATO policy. NATO’s aggressive posture towards Russia sets a dangerous course for Obama’s successor.
9. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, NATO Reaffirms Its Bogus Russia Narrative.
10. Wall Street Journal editorial: NATO Shores Up the East. The alliance sends a message to Moscow with four battalions.
11. Wall Street Journal: NATO, Russia to Discuss Increased Baltic Tensions. Russia promises troop buildup in response to 4,000-strong Western force.
12. Intellinews.com: Putin closes the safety valve ahead of Duma elections.
13. Russia Insider: Alexei Pankin, Laughable: Russian Liberals Run for Parliament (Video)
14. Russia Direct: Ilya Lakstykal, A crippling blow to the freedom of the Russian Internet. New anti-extremism amendments could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech on the Internet and lead to massive losses for Russia’s top Internet and telecom companies.
15. Reuters: Russian Editors ‘Fired Over Stories That Irked Officials’
16. Meduza: This is what losing your newsroom looks like in Russia The reporters at ‘RBC’ meet their new bosses (Full transcript)
17. US-Russia Business Council: Report: Russia’s Regional Economies Continue To Struggle.
18. Sputnik: Russian Oil Output Rises Amid Higher Demand as Market Re-Balances.
19. Bloomberg: Putin Isn’t About to Let Go of the Crown Jewels After Alrosa.
20. Russia Direct: Vladimir Korovkin, A simple (but radical) plan to boost Russia’s economic productivity. Russia has one overlooked option to boost its economic productivity – encourage widespread migration of laborers and small business owners from surrounding nations. But is it really possible to import demography on such a grand scale?
21. Salon.com: Ben Norton, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels committing war crimes, torture, abductions; imposing harsh Sharia law: Report. Amnesty International report: Syrian rebel groups “committed serious violations of international humanitarian law”
22. Washington Post: Josh Rogin, Kerry touts the Russian line on Syrian rebel groups.
23. War on the Rocks: James Goldgeier, PROMISES MADE, PROMISES BROKEN? WHAT YELTSIN WAS TOLD ABOUT NATO IN 1993 AND WHY IT MATTERS.
24. Vanity Fair: Masha Gessen, THE PUTIN NEMESIS PLOTTING A POST-PUTIN RUSSIA. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man and then its most famous political prisoner, now has his eye on the future-his country’s. Can he invent a new Russia from exile?
25. TASS: MP Nadezhda Savchenko tops rating of Ukraine’s politicians – poll.

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