RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-159 :: Monday, 29 August 2016
Johnson’s #Russia List :: JRL 2016-#159
Monday, 29 August 2016
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1. Newsweek.com: William Courtney and David Shlapak, THE WEST MUST DO FAR MORE TO KEEP PUTIN AT BAY. (The RAND Corporation)
2. Anne Applebaum: “finally – finally! – Russia’s extraordinary disinformation campaign is creeping towards the front pages.”
3. New York Times: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories.
4. New York Times editorial: Russia Blames Others for Its Doping Woes.
5. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, The Dumbed-Down New York Times.
6. Newsweek.com: How Vladimir Putin Is Using Donald Trump to Advance Russia’s Goals.
7. Washington Babylon: Ken Silverstein, Donald Trump Vladimir Putin: How the DNC and media created a bogus narrative while ignoring Hillary’s deep ties to Russia and Ukraine.
8. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymond, Clinton’s Crazy Conspiracy Theory. Is Vladimir Putin behind the #NeverHillary movement?
9. Sputnik: Real Propaganda: NY Times Says Kremlin Uses Sputnik, RT as Disinformation Weapon.
10. www.rt.com: Danielle Ryan, From bad to worse: Clinton laying foundation for increasingly hostile relations with Russia.
11. www.rt.com: ‘Divorced from reality: IPC disables Russian Paralympic athletes from excelling in sport.’ (interview with Ron Katz)
12. www.rt.com editorial: American defense contractors think you have been brainwashed.
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Losing the good fight: IKEA’s struggle to remain honest in Russia. The Swedish furniture retailer IKEA is landed with hundreds of lawsuits in Russia every year. It insists that these lawsuits are retaliation for its honesty and determination to do clean business in a country where corruption is part of the system. Yet if investigators are to be believed, even IKEA has been unable to buy land, build its stores on it and connect them to the power grid by
14. The Unz Report: Anatoly Karlin, Is Putin the Godfather of Extreme Nationalism?
15. http://theduran.com: Dmitry Babich, Masha Gessen’s unpredictable spelling tea leaves. How name games became Masha Gessen’s new way of undertaking Russian political analysis.
16. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Playing The Kremlin’s Game.
17. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Michael Weiss, the Neocon’s Neocon.
18. The Unz Review: Richard Silverstein, Michael Weiss and the Iran-U.S. Hardline Nexus That Led Iranian-American to Evin Prison.
19. BBC Monitoring: Russian election debate: War on corruption.
20. www.rt.com: Senator warns of foreign provocation targeting upcoming Russian polls.
21. Vedomosti: Russian paper mulls chances of early presidential election. (Maria Zheleznova)
22. Rethinking Russia: Russia is trying to reestablish its status of global power and the West does not want to let this happen and is trying to retain its dominance. Interview with Vadim Trukhachev, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities.
23. Wall Street Journal: Latvia’s Wariness Over Russia Raises Civil Rights Concerns at Home. Petition questioning country’s independence results in six-month prison sentence.
24. The American Conservative: Jon Basil Utley, White Russia Makes Progress. A visit to Minsk reveals a peaceful transition to economic freedom.
25. The Unz Review: The Saker, Assessing the Russian Military as an Instrument of Power.
26. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Russia tapes ex-MP scoffs at Ukrainian prosecutor charges. (Konstantin Zatulin article)
27. Intellinews.com: Garham Stack, Sergei Kuznetsov, and Ben Aris, LONG READ: Poroshenko’s empire – the business of being Ukraine’s president.
28. Government.ru: August 2008: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin interviewed by the German ARD TV channel. “We are not going to play by some special rules of our own. We want everyone to follow the same rules that are also referred to as international law.”
