RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-172 :: Monday, 19 September 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#172
Monday, 19 September 2016
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1. Intellinews.com: Moscow now outpacing New York and London in construction volumes.
2. Kremlin.ru: Answers to media questions.
3. TASS: Putin urges “deliberate, thought-out reforms”
4. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Government members.
5. Kremlin.ru: Visiting United Russia party’s campaign headquarters.
6. Government.ru: Excerpts from Dmitry Medvedev’s interview to Sergei Brilyov, host of the Vesti v Subbotu (News on Saturday) programme.
7. www.rt.com: Russian elections: Ruling United Russia stays at helm with 54.3%, rivals decry low turnout.
8. Russia Insider: Ignat Borison, Putin’s Party Won the Right to Change the Constitution at the Duma Elections. A stunning success against a backdrop of an economic crisis and low voter turnout. Comments by top Russian pundits.
9. BBC Monitoring: Russian press ponders over ruling party’s electoral success.
10. Intellinews.com: Kremlin’s United Russia secures record majority in Duma elections.
11. Paul Goble: Duma Vote Shows Changes Won’t Come in Russia via Elections, Commentators Say.
12. Vedomosti: Russian expert looks at what new State Duma will be. (Ekaterina Shulman)
13. Gazeta.ru: Medvedev can be seen as one of Putin’s successors. (editorial)
14. The Guardian (UK): Dmitri Trenin, Information is a potent weapon in the new cold war. Loss of public trust killed the USSR and it can bring down Western elites too.
15. www.rt.com: Dmitry Babich, MSM stoops to Stalin-era conspiracy theories.
16. BBC Monitoring: Russian media on US attack in Syria
17. The Independent (UK): Patrick Cockburn, The US and Russia have less influence in Syria than they think. Despite 10 months of negotiations between the US and Russia, the two biggest players in the Syrian conflict, the ceasefire is close to unravelling.
18. Counterpunch.org: Jim Kavanagh, Prime Directive: Trust the System, Blame the Russians.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Vladimir Mikheev, Fifteen years after 9/11, the War on Terror has clearly failed. Fifteen years down the road, the ramifications of the War on Terror launched by President George W. Bush after the deadly terror attack on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001 are as multi-faceted as they are controversial. There appear to be few “best practices” to apply but plenty of unlearned lessons.
20. Los Angeles Times: Max Boot, Who’s better for his people? Putin or Obama? The answer is obvious.
21. Russia Direct: Natasha Bluth, The West ignores the Ukraine crisis at its own peril. While Ukraine no longer makes headlines in the West, violence in Eastern Ukraine is still commonplace and the humanitarian crisis threatens to spiral out of control.
22. Demokratizatsiya: Simon Saradzhyan, Is Russia Declining?
