RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-139 :: Tuesday, 26 July 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#139
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

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1. Salon.com: Patrick Lawrence, Shades of the Cold War: How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal. Leaked revelations of the DNC’s latest misconduct bear a disturbing resemblance to Cold War red-baiting.
2. The Guardian (UK): Trevor Timm, The rush to blame Russia for the DNC email hack is premature.
3. Russia Insider: Dominic Basalt, Hillary Clinton’s Bizarre Disinformation Strategy Against Russia and Donald Trump. Hillary claims Russia is waging a color revolution against her.
4. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Clickbait McCarthyism and the world of Putin’s ‘useful idiots’
5. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymondo, The Hunt for Red Trump-tober.
6. Russia Direct: Munich, Donald Trump, and the Olympic doping scandal. Russian media roundup: The mass shooting in Munich, the selection of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee, and developments in the Olympic anti-doping scandal all made headlines last week.
7. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Will Russians Come Out to Defend Putin?
8. Intellinews.com: Chris Weafer, August in Russia – what could possibly go wrong?
9. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Why All Criticisms of the IOC’s Refusal to Ban Russian Athletes are Wrong.
10. www.rt.com: Danielle Ryan, Why were ‘journalists’ lobbying for a blanket ban on Russian athletes?
11. The Independent (UK): Mary Dejevsky, Why the IOC is right not to ban all Russian athletes from Rio 2016. The Olympics are about individual performance, and always have been. To ban Russia risked traducing that ideal.
12. Rethinking Russia: A Series of Interviews with Experts on Russian, European and American Foreign Policy. (Alexander Tevdoy-Burmuli)
13. Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: The Westernization of Higher Education in Russia: Novosibirsk State University and its Students 1992-2016: Part 2: The Students.
14. The Independent (UK): Russia could invade Poland ‘overnight’, report claims.
15. Washington Post Editorial: Putin’s suspected meddling in a U.S. election would be a disturbing first.

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