RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-153 :: Friday, 19 August 2016

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#153
Friday, 19 August 2016
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1. Salon.com: Patrick Lawrence, War in the media age: Hysteria over Trump’s supposed Russian ties made headlines, but the “story” is remarkably flimsy.
2. www.rt.com: Most Russians want govt to press on with independent course despite foreign sanctions.
3. Russia Direct: Understanding Russian politics, without the conspiracy theories. RD Interview: Mikhail Zygar, the former chief editor at independent TV station Dozhd, discusses his latest book, “All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin,” which will be available in English starting in September.
4. Gazeta.ru: Kremlin reshuffles seen as part of power “reformatting”
5. Intellinews.com: Mark Galeotti, Can government reshuffles bring any hope for Russia?
6. The Economist: Putin’s personnel moves. Dancing in the dark. Desk shuffles in the Kremlin signal something, but no one knows what.
7. The American Interest: Anders Aslund, Why We Need Kremlinology Again. How a careful study of behind-the-scenes power struggles can open a window into a closed society.
8. www.rt.com: Communications Ministry mulls total control over Russian sector of the web – reports.
9. TASS: Institute chaired by US senator McCain branded ‘undesirable’ NGO in Russia.
10. Bloomberg: Stealing a Peek at Russian Economic Uptick Before It Happens.
11. Moscow Times: Experts Predict ‘Lost Decade’ For Russia’s Stagnating Economy.
12. TASS: Russia not planning to downgrade relations with Kiev – Putin.
13. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexander Baunov, The Crimean Saboteurs and Russia’s New Ultimatum.
14. The National Interest: Simon Saradzhyan, Does Russia Want War With Ukraine? Not Really-Or Not Yet. Nothing short of occupying Kiev would achieve Russia’s goals in Ukraine-and that won’t happen.
15. Izvestia: Rostislav Ishchenko, Why Kiev Is Preparing for War. Political Expert Rostislav Ishchenko on How Ukrainian Radicals Hope To Seize Power Through Exacerbation in the Donbass.
16. Sputnik: Vain Hopes: How Brexit is Destroying Ukraine’s EU Accession Dream.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Why does Russia need a military base in Iran? Russian long-distance and tactical bombers have been deployed to the Hamadan air base in Iran. Military experts say that this move is motivated by economic reasons and the necessity to change the course of the battle for Aleppo in Syria.
18. Consortiumnews.com: Graham Fuller, Turkey’s Sensible Détente with Russia.
19. The National Interest: Paul Pillar, Russian Realism in the Middle East.
20. RIA Novosti: Russian envoy says NATO dialogue “gradually being restored”
21. Lenta.ru: Russia Has Bought US Treasury Bonds Worth 91 Billion Dollars.
22. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Comments on russophobia in US media by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
23. Antiwar.com: Congress Seeks to Establish Russia as Permanent Enemy. Bill Aims to Stop Future Governments From Rapprochement With Russians.
24. Wall Street Journal: Russia Emerges as a Campaign Issue That Can’t Be Ignored.
25. BBC Monitoring: Russian press remembers 1991 failed coup.
26. TASS: Ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev urges nation to learn from aborted August 1991 coup.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The story of an unsuccessful coup: Why the USSR was beyond saving. Exactly 25 years ago, on August 19-21, 1991, a group of plotters made an attempt to preserve the Soviet Union as it was, in a desperate effort to avert the disintegration of the country. However, the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev failed miserably.
28. Russia Direct: Yury Korgunyuk, Why the 1991 Soviet coup failed. 25 years ago, the State Emergency Committee failed to take into account the changing political dynamics within Russia that eventually led to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
29. RFE/RL: What Happened To The August 1991 Soviet Coup Plotters?
30. www.foreignpolicy.com: Leon Aron, Even Vladimir Putin Cannot Kill the Russian Revolution. Twenty-five years after the great revolution that toppled the Soviet regime, the spirit of dignity and freedom still burns.
31. Lowy Interpreter: Matthew Dal Santo, Putin’s plan to restore the Romanovs (Part 1)
32. Lowy Interpreter: Matthew Dal Santo, Putin’s plan to restore the Romanovs (Part 2)
33. Lowy Interpreter: Matthew Dal Santo, Putin’s plan to restore the Romanovs (Part 3)