RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-175 :: Thursday, 22 September 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#175
Thursday, 22 September 2016
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1. TASS: Russian PM says economy should be overhauled.
2. Sputnik: Russia to Maintain Course on Economic Openness – Prime Minister Medvedev.
3. Moscow Times: Medvedev Warns Russia of Economic Reform’s ‘High Social Cost’
4. Reuters: Russia will not print money to cover budget shortfalls: PM.
5. Government.ru/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Dmitry Medvedev, New dynamics in Russia’s socioeconomic development.
6. BBC Monitoring: Russian former finance minister appears at cabinet meeting. (Alexei Kudrin)
7. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
8. Stratfor.com: Jay Ogilvy, Color Commentary on Russia.
9. Russia Insider: Victor Militarev, Why I Did Not Vote For United Russia. Supporting Putin doesn’t mean renouncing one’s political independence.
10. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Op-ed views reasons behind United Russia’s election victory. (Mikhail Rostovsky)
11. Vedomosti: Analysts mull exiled tycoon’s “instead of Putin” project. (Khodorkovsky)
12. Wall Street Journal: Russia to Tap Global Credit Markets for Second Time Since Sanctions Imposed. Move comes amid boom for Russian markets in recent months, helped by gains in the price of oil.
13. RIA Novosti: Russia’s jobless figure stable despite crisis – deputy PM.
14. Bloomberg: Lost Trillions Haunt Russian Budget Keeper in Cheap-Oil Era.
15. Sputnik: Nearly 80% of US Companies Working in Russia Regard Russian Market as Strategic.
16. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Russia mulls new system to read online messages in real time. The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of introducing new technology to allow them to decipher internet communication. The system may involve the use of “man-in-the-middle” attacks in order to harvest information as it is transmitted.
17. Cape Breton Post (Canada): Gwynne Dyer, Syria: another ceasefire bites the dust? It’s clear that the main problem lies in Washington.
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian press focuses on growing tensions with US over Syria.
19. Russia Direct: Ilya Lakstygal, The new US-Russia ceasefire in Syria is unofficially over. A recent U.S. airstrike on positions of Syrian government forces was either a mistake – or a deliberate attempt to end the ceasefire almost before it started. In either scenario, the new Syrian ceasefire agreement appears to be over.
20. The National Interest: Paul Pillar, Don’t Try to Imitate the Russians in Syria.
21. Moon of Alabama: Syria – The Aid Convoy Attack Points To Further Escalation.
22. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Making up the news: How the Western media misreported the Syrian convoy attack. Instead of making a real effort to find out the truth of what actually happened to the Syrian aid convoy the Western media preferred to repeat whatever the US and the Jihadis told them as if it was true.
23. www.rt.com: Pepe Escobar, The US road map to balkanize Syria.
24. Russian International Affairs Council: Natalia Evtikhevich, Why a plan for future Russia-EU relations is necessary.
25. Rethinking Russia: Tatyana Isachenko, The Multilateral Trading System. The Causes of the Ideological Crisis and Russia’s Posture.
26. The New Yorker: Masha Gessen, RUSSIA’S ELECTION: EVERY CHOICE WAS A BAD ONE.
27. Observer (New York): Mikhail Klikushin, The Unsurprising Defeat of Anti-Putin Opposition, Mired in Sex Scandal and Corruption. Members of Russian opposition have been killed, imprisoned, harassed, beaten with a chessboard, revenge-porned, and literally ‘doused with shit’
28. Council on Foreign Relations: Robert Caruso, Lessons From the Cold War to Combat Modern Russian Disinformation Campaigns.
29. www.foreignaffairs.com: Gregory Feifer, Putin’s Meddling in the U.S. Elections. How It Helps Him Back Home.