RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-160 :: Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#160
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
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1. Twitter: Strobe Talbott (Brookings): Hitler invented “the big lie” that would be widely believed because no one “could distort the truth so infamously.” (re New York Times: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories)
2. Forbes.com: Ron Katz, Russian Complaints About McLaren Report On Alleged State-Sponsored Doping Have Merit.
3. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, STALINISM, AGAIN.
4. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Is Putin the new Stalin?
5. Russia Direct: Parliamentary elections in Russia and Turkish offensive in Syria. Russian media roundup: The parliamentary election campaign in Russia and the rapidly changing situation in Syria made headlines last week.
6. www.rt.com: ‘Russia never leaves it’s compatriots behind the red line’ – Medvedev.
7. BBC Monitoring: Russian election debate: Healthcare.
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian election debate: Security and fight against terror.
9. www.rt.com: Liberal parties seek legal denunciation of 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
10. Moscow Times: Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development Pins Hopes on Rising Oil Prices.
11. www.rt.com: Lowest crude finds in 70yrs signal supply shortage & price rises ahead.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia on course to become world’s largest wheat exporter for first time.
13. Bloomberg: Russian Economy at Risk of Delayed Recovery After Crimea Flareup.
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Can Russians save Tesla?
15. Russia Direct: Decoding the Kremlin’s foreign policy. RD Interview: Alexander Sergunin, a professor of International Relations and the author of a new book on Russian foreign policy, outlines the key factors that influence the Kremlin’s actions on the global stage.
16. Russia Direct: Vahid Hosseinzadeh and Yulia Sveshnikova, The future of Russian-Iranian cooperation in Syria. Moscow and Tehran appear to be united in their position on Syria, even if Russian military airstrikes may no longer be possible from bases within Iran.
17. Valdai Discussion Club: Vasily Kashin and Anastasia Pyatachkova, RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS IN 2014-2016 – HOW FAR WE’VE COME. The gradual Russian-Chinese rapprochement that began in the 1990s and continues today has not changed in essence. The Ukrainian crisis and the escalation in tension in the South China Sea have only served to accelerate the process somewhat.
18. Sputnik: Pepe Escobar, The Whole Game is About Containing Russia-China.
19. The New Republic: Sophie Pinkham, Witness Tampering. Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories. (excerpt)
20. Awful Avalanche: Russian Opinion Poll on Status of Donetsk.
21. www.rt.com: Dramatic viral combat photo from eastern Ukraine ‘clearly staged’ – war photographer to RT.
22. Counterpunch.org: Dmitry Kolesnik, In Ukraine: Independence From the People. An empty pathos: Impressions from Independence Day in Kyiv.
23. Intellinews.com: Ukraine government faces gauntlet of populism, parliamentary discontent.
24. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Uzbek president’s failing health raises Islamist worries. Autocratic President Islam Karimov has ruled Uzbekistan for more than two decades. But public reports he has suffered a debilitating illness raise the possibility of a succession battle, complicated by Uzbekistan’s own Islamist insurgency.
25. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Fears of instability in Uzbekistan as President Karimov suffers stroke. Stroke fells autocratic leader with whom Moscow has had a difficult relationship but whose brutal methods have kept his country stable.
26. East-West Church & Ministry Report: Lawrence Uzzell, Punk Rockers in the Cathedral: Political Protest or Religious Sacrilege?
27. Pussy Riot Orgy In A Museum with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Beware: X-rated)
THE MIGHTY WURLITZER
28. New York Times: Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. Inquiry.
29. NBCNews.com: Russians Hacked Two U.S. Voter Databases, Officials Say.
30. Washington Post: Russian hackers targeted Arizona election system.
31. Washington Post editorial: How to hack- and rig-proof U.S. elections.
32. Defense One: EXCLUSIVE: Russia-Backed DNC Hackers Strike Washington Think Tanks.
33. Washington Examiner: DNC chair: Russian hackers sought to destabilize democracy.
34. The Washington Post: Dana Milbank, A Putin-sponsored October surprise?
35. Fedscoop.com: International defense deal motivated by Russian hacking, experts say.