RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-141 :: Sunday, 31 July 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#141
Sunday, 31 July 2016

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1. New York Times: Michael McFaul, How to Counter the Putin Playbook.
2. Washington Post: David Ignatius, Russia’s DNC hack: A prelude to intervention in November? U.S. officials worry that the Kremlin may continue to use covert Cold War-era tactics against Hillary Clinton or financial markets.
3. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, How Dangerous Is Russia? Experts don’t agree with either U.S. political party’s threat assessment.
4. Russia Direct: Yury Korgunyuk, The Kremlin reshuffles the political deck. With just weeks to go until parliamentary elections in September, the Kremlin surprised everyone with a major shakeup of the political elites in the Russian regions.
5. Vedomosti: Putin wants two opposite economic programmes – paper. (Nikolai Epple)
6. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Russian companies earn strong profits but economic recovery remains over the horizon.
7. Center on Global Interests: Olga Kuzmina, What Putin Actually Said About Donald Trump. When it comes to speculations about the Russian president’s love for Trump, Western observers are lost in translation.
8. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Trump Is Factually Right on Crimea.
9. The National Interest: Ted Galen Carpenter, The New McCarthys Attack Trump on Russia.
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Georgy Bovt, U.S. elections: How Trump became ‘Putin’s agent.’ The U.S. media are currently up in arms over alleged Russian involvement in the leak of Democratic Party correspondence as accusations fly that the Kremlin is backing Republican candidate Donald Trump in the election campaign. However, writes journalist Georgy Bovt, all the talk of Russia is obscuring some uncomfortable truths about the primaries.
11. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Why the ‘Trump is a Russian agent’ theme won’t work. The US liberal elite is making the same mistake as the British liberal elite did during the Brexit campaign: they think non-elite voters are as obsessed by Vladimir Putin as they are.
12. The National Interest: Maxim Suchkov, The Real Russian Interest in US Elections.
13. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Who Needs Luck When Your Enemies Are Stupid?
14. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymondo, Who Hacked the DNC? Was it the Russians – or an inside job?
15. Izvestia: Russian daily attacks WADA doping report for “bias.” (Alexei Mukhin)
16. Gazeta.ru: More troops should be deployed in western Russia – analyst. (Mikhail Khodarenok)
17. Consortiumnews.com: John Churchman, Lurching Toward World War III. Anti-Russian hysteria has reached extraordinary levels in Official Washington with heated allegations about Russia hacking Democratic Party emails, but this over-the-top “group think” threatens the world’s future
18. The Real News Network: The Turkish Pivot Towards Russia. Political economist Aleksandr Buzgalin says that Turkey’s relative independence from NATO is of interest to the Russian elite.
19. Russia Direct: Ruslan Kostyuk, Russia pursues security architecture in East Asia. During a series of meetings this week in Laos, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued to push for an umbrella structure for the region.
20. The Blog Mire: Rob Slane, Russian Aggression: A Cheesy Novel From the Atlantic Council.
21. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Clanoregime. (excerpt)
22. Kyiv Post: Top journalist’s murder increasingly sinister as dust settles around events. (Pavel Sheremet)
23. An American professor expert on Russia: Recommending JRL.

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