RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-167 :: Wednesday, 7 September 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#167
Wednesday, 7 September 2016

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1. First Things: Peter Hitchens, THE COLD WAR IS OVER.
2. Le Monde diplomatique: Michael Klare, Sleepwalking into a big war. The major powers are planning for war and claim that’s the best way to defend against war. Will this mutual hawkishness lead to armed conflict?
3. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Marcel Theroux, Would you take your family on holiday to Russia? Visiting Russia has never been an easy endeavour, but are things changing?
4. Stratfor.com: Putin’s Iron Grip, Forged in the Fires of Terrorism.
5. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with United Russia parliamentary party and experts.
6. Carnegie Moscow Center: Another Rubber Stamp Duma? (excerpt)
7. Interfax: Some 4.5 mln Russians may become observers in Russian elections – head of Central Election Commission.
8. Interfax: Russian Finance Ministry not proposing progressive income tax scale after 2018.
9. BBC Monitoring: Russian press views pollster’s inclusion on “foreign agent” list.
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: G20 summit in China yields diplomatic windfall for Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin can consider the recent G20 summit in China an unquestionable success after breakthrough talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But is being in the G20 any substitute for membership in the G7?
11. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Summary of G-20: Russia does diplomacy, China plays the long game, US sulks.
12. Forbes.com: Jessica Rovello, When It Comes To Business, Relations Between Russia And The U.S. Are Surprisingly Strong.
13. www.rt.com: Kremlin warns of retaliation after US expands sanctions list.
14. Reuters: Isolated Russian outpost withers under confrontation with West. (Kaliningrad)
15. Wall Street Journal: U.S. Intelligence Chief Suggests Russia Behind Hacks of Democratic Party Groups.
16. Wall Street Journal: Russia Undermining International Order, Says U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Comments seen as oblique warning on Russian-sponsored hacking of U.S. political institutions.
17. The Hill: Dems paint Trump as Russia’s pawn.
18. www.rt.com: ‘They don’t know what real despair means’: Russian Paralympians determined to move on after Rio ban.
19. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russia, USA close to clinching Syria truce deal – daily.
20. http://theduran.com: Adam Garrie, The Assad Dividend: Why Putin and Obama will never see eye-to-eye.
21. Russia Direct: Andrei Zolotov, EU’s Russia policy still a polarizing issue. At this year’s European Forum Alpbach in the Austrian Alps, European diplomats and experts debated how Russia would impact the EU’s new Global Strategy.
22. Valdai Discussion Club: Ivan Timofeev, THE “NEW NORMAL” IN EU GLOBAL STRATEGY. For a long time, neither Russia nor the EU had a clear vision of a new pattern for relations. Today this pattern is becoming more apparent, at least in the EU Global Strategy, the new foreign and defense policy doctrine.
23. Russia Direct: Vyacheslav Sutyrin, Russia’s European integration dreams could be fading. Russia needs to accept the fact that a grand integration of the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union is not going to happen anytime soon.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Delta Air Lines cancels flights to Moscow until spring 2017. Passengers flying between Moscow and the U.S. will only be able to fly via Paris or Amsterdam with Delta Air Lines: The largest U.S. carrier says Russia is now a seasonal destination.
25. Russia Insider/RIA Novosti: Rostislav Ishchenko, Trump Might Be Even More Dangerous for Russia Than Hillary.
26. Russia Direct: Galiya Ibragimova, Uzbekistan prepares for a future without Islam Karimov. President Islam Karimov led the development of an independent Uzbekistan for a quarter of a century. Now the country must embrace a new, more uncertain future.
27. Indian Punchline: MK Bhadrakumar, Putin’s gesture will win the Uzbek heart.
28. Consortiumnews.com: US Denies Entry to Ex-UK Ambassador. (Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan)
29. www.rt.com editorial: The Guardian’s vernacular shield of Ukraine’s TV attack.
30. www.foreignpolicy.com: Ian Bateson, Live by the Pen, Die by the Sword. The war against journalists in Ukraine is getting bloody.
31. Der Spiegel: A Crude Heroine. Nadiya Savchenko’s Assault on Ukraine’s Elite.
32. www.president.gov.ua: Annual address of President to Verkhovna Rada “On Internal and External Situation of Ukraine in 2016” (excerpts)
33. The New Yorker: Andy Borowitz, G20 ENDS ABRUPTLY AS OBAMA CALLS PUTIN A JACKASS.

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