RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-151 :: Wednesday, 17 August 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#151
Wednesday, 18 August 2016

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1. Russian Politics: Richard Sakwa, Back to the Wall: Myths and Mistakes that Once Again Divide Europe. (excerpts)
2. TASS: Russians prefer stability, order and sovereignty – VTSIOM opinion poll.
3. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, TRUMP’S UKRAINIAN CONNECTION. (with comments)
4. Intellinews.com: Russian govt finds itself under social spending pressure in election season.
5. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Experts preview Russian ex-minister Kudrin’s economic plan.
6. Russia Direct: Marina Obrazkova, How a political unknown became the third most powerful person in Russia. The quick rise to power of Anton Vaino, who will replace Sergei Ivanov as President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, has some speculating about a new role for the Presidential Administration.
7. The New Yorker: Masha Gessen, THE VERY STRANGE WRITINGS OF PUTIN’S NEW CHIEF OF STAFF. Though fewer than a hundred and forty pages, Anton Vayno’s book appears to offer nothing less than a recipe for global domination.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Sergei Ivanov: Who is the official Putin has just fired?
9. Carnegie Moscow Center: Tatyana Stanovaya, Putin’s New Personnel Policy.
10. Vedomosti: Regime ignores systemic politicians’ interests – Russian expert. (Fyodor Krasheninnikov)
11. Interfax: Detention of PARNAS party members in Tatarstan “absolutely stupid” on part of local law enforcement agencies – Russian Central Elections Commission head.
12. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Why the political situation in Russia is so calm. Personnel changes and reforms of the police and internal security agencies point to a calm situation with the government fully in control and the political system functioning normally.
13. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Russian pundit views voter interest in Duma election. (Alexei Makarkin)
14. Kremlin.ru: State Council Presidium meeting on developing internal waterways.
15. TASS: Russian premier: environmental measures can’t be postponed over budget deficit. (Medvedev)
16. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Russia Resilient, But Just Barely.
17. TASS: Russia’s 1998 debt crisis couldn’t happen again – economists.
18. Russia Direct: Tai Adelaja, Why Russia fails to cope with ‘resource curse.’ For more than a decade, Russia has been attempting to diversify, innovate and modernize its economy, but its efforts thus far have failed to come to fruition. Here is why.
19. Paul Goble: Russia’s New Poor Ashamed of Their Poverty and Try to Hide It, Sociologist Says.
20. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The rebirth of Russia’s microelectronics industry.
21. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry comment on statements by Georgia and Ukraine regarding the anniversary of August 2008 events.
22. Russia Direct: Eugene Bai, Clinton vs. Trump: The Russian people give their views. For many in the Russian political and business elites, the idea of backing Donald Trump as the next U.S. president is not only outlandish, it is also politically naïve.
23. Fort Russ: Yakov Germanov, Debunking the NYT’s Olympic Size Steroids Stories.
24. Intellinews.com: Memories of 1991 Moscow coup start to fade.
25. www.rt.com: 30% of Russians see failed 1991 coup as national tragedy.
26. Russia Insider: Paul Kindlon, The Real Boris Yeltsin: Democratic Reformer Or Brutal Dictator?
27. Center for European Policy Analysis: Edward Lucas, Retracing the frontline. As war clouds gather over Ukraine, I have been reading a book about how we got into this mess. “From Washington to Moscow” is a personal memoir of the 25 years which American diplomat Louis Sell spent at the heart of East-West relations, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
28. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, The Putin Doctrine.
29. Washington Post: David Ignatius, America is no longer guaranteed military victory. These weapons could change that. Pentagon officials look to regain conventional U.S. dominance over Russia and China.
30. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Michael Weiss, the Neocon’s Neocon.
31. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Russian officer details “saboteur” incident in Crimea.

 

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