RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-174 :: Wednesday, 21 September 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#174
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
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1. The Wall Street Journal: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, The United States Must Be the World’s Policeman. Only America has the material and moral greatness to stop the slide into chaos and foster peace.
2. Sputnik: Russian MoD Releases Footage of Attacked UN Aid Convoy in Syria’s Aleppo (VIDEO)
3. www.rt.com: Russia presented all evidence on aid convoy attack, now wants impartial investigation – Lavrov.
4. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, QUOTATIONS, QUOTATIONS. (re Timothy Snyder and the New York Times)
5. TASS: Poll suggests war tops Russians’ fears while economic worries wane.
6. www.rt.com: Less than third of Russians concerned over isolation from West, poll shows.
7. BBC Monitoring: Newspapers on Russian election.
8. The Unz Report: Anatoly Karlin, Notes on Russia’s 2016 Duma Elections.
9. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Where does United Russia’s victory leave the Russian parliament? Russia’s four parliamentary parties have remained unchanged after the September 18 elections. The ruling United Russia party, which won a constitutional majority, strengthened its position and is effectively in full control of the parliament, the Duma.
10. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Making Sense of the 2016 Russian Parliamentary Elections: A First Attempt. Only after the voting results came in did Western media perk up and publish reports about Russia’s Duma elections. What have they said and what have they left out or failed to explain? Read on…
11. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Duma elections show western media what constitutes the real ‘Russian opposition’
12. Moscow Times: Nikolai Petrov, Peering Into the Crystal Ball: Russia After the Elections. The Duma elections are over. They are no longer a restraining factor, but a stimulus to change.
13. New York Times editorial: Behind Mr. Putin’s Easy Victory.
14. Moscow Carnegie Center: Alexander Baunov, Authoritarianism by Stealth: Russia After the Duma Elections. The look of Russia’s parliamentary election was different, even if the results were the same. Russia’s ruling regime is trying to preserve its legitimacy by being more flexible and more respectable. This system may eventually contain the seeds of its own transformation.
15. Institute of Modern Russia: Experts: The U.S. Should Not Promote Democracy in Russia Because This Plays into Putin’s Hands.
16. Harvard Gazette: What Russia wants. Putin and his government seek respect, stability from next U.S. administration, panel says.
17. www.rt.com: Russia uses force to ‘recover lost glory’, says Obama.
18. Bloomberg: Russia Said to See Ruble Stable Through 2019 in Draft Budget.
19. TASS: Putin sets tasks to bring small business to leading economies level.
20. Bloomberg: Russia Pumps Oil at Record Pace as Supply Talks With OPEC Near.
21. TASS: Russian MP calls to preserve privacy rights during web traffic decryption.
22. Russia Direct: Ekaterina Grobman, A fresh start for a new version of the KGB. The centralization of the nation’s security forces within a new Ministry of State Security is either a pragmatic management move – or a precursor to the return of the all-powerful KGB of the Soviet era.
23. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Unveiling the KGB school of economic management.
24. Wall Street Journal: NATO Rejects Russian Air-Safety Proposal for Planes in Baltic Region. Moscow proposed all military planes flying in region would keep transponders operational.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian-U.S. cooperation in Syria in peril after attack on UN convoy. Russian experts believe that the latest incidents in Syria, which have seen the fragile ceasefire agreement fall apart, may transform the conflict into a proxy war between Russia and the U.S.
26. http://thesaker.is: Aram Mirzaei, Syrian Ceasefire failed, what now?
27. Russia Direct: Alexey Khlebnikov, What are the major security threats for Russia in Eurasia? With the changing geopolitical reality, the nature of the security threats facing Russia is changing as well. The majority of them are now coming from Eurasia rather than the West.
28. Forbes.com Ron Katz, WADA Is “Broken” And Should Be Replaced.
29. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, Why U.S. Policy on Russia Is Stuck in Neutral. The next president will need to chart out the areas where Russia can be accommodated, where it must be deterred and what price the U.S. is willing to pay to achieve compellence.
30. AP: Ukraine, Rebels Agree to Pull Back Troops, Weapons.
31. www.rt.com: ‘Untenable claims’: Russian bloggers raise more questions about Bellingcat MH17 investigation.
32. Newsweek.com: UKRAINE REPORTS RUSSIA IS PRACTICING ITS READINESS FOR NUCLEAR CONFLICT.
33. www.newcoldwar.org: Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, Holocaust amnesia: The Ukrainian diaspora and the genocide of the Jews.