RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-182 :: Monday, 3 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#182
Monday, 3 October 2016
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1. Valdai Discussion Club: LOOKING AT ‘MALIGNANT SEEDS’ IN DETERIORATION OF RUSSIA-WEST RELATIONS. (Robert Legvold)
2. Russian Foreign Ministry: Interview of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to BBC World News Channel, Moscow, September 30, 2016.
3. www.rt.com: PM Medvedev pledges to stay on conservative course to protect Russian living standards.
4. Government.ru: Sochi International Investment Forum 2016. (Medvedev)
5. Reuters: Russian PM expects modest economic growth in early 2017.
6. Interfax: Russia’s economic growth depends on successful transformations – Medvedev.
7. Government.ru: Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with Voskresnoye Vremya (Sunday Time) programme, Channel One.
8. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Medvedev: Russian government to work on a project basis. Speaking at an economic forum in Sochi, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the government will establish 11 key targets for developing Russia’s economy and improving life in the country.
9. Interfax: Russia’s Medvedev agrees with ex-minister on need for reform. (Kudrin)
10. Paul Goble: Medvedev Backs Radical Reform of Structure of Russian State.
11. RIA Novosti: Deputy PM says poverty in Russia rising since 2014. (Olga Golodets)
12. TASS: Old model of Russian economic growth exhausted itself – Central Bank head. (Elvira Nabiullina)
13. Interfax: Russian annualized GDP decline halts in August, first time since December 2014.
14. Washington Post: Ben Noble, Putin just won a supermajority in the Duma. That matters. (with comments)
15. Paul Goble: Most Russians Say They Want to Live in a Democraacy But Don’t Support Democratic Values, Survey Finds.
16. The Moscow Times: Konstantin Gaaze, How the Battle for Russian Privatization Was Fought and Lost.
17. Reuters: Russia, Bowing to Budget Pressures, Revives Oil Firm Sell-Off.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Oil prices rise, but for how long? Russia says it is ready to coordinate with OPEC on its decision to freeze production, but an increase in prices could cause U.S. shale producers to increase drilling.
19. Russia Insider: Paul Goncharoff, Doing Business in Russia: Enormous Opportunity, But Understand the Market. The Russian market holds a wealth of opportunity for new business, but it takes on the ground knowledge of how Russia works to successfully tap it.
20. The Economist: AIDS in Russia. Immune to reason. Russia’s contempt for effective drug and HIV policies is killing its citizens.
21. Consortiumnews.com: The Russian View of Trump-Clinton Debate. Russian media is much more nuanced than the U.S. public is led to believe, even showing a perceptive approach to describing the Trump-Clinton presidential debate, as Gilbert Doctorow observed first-hand.
22. BBC Monitoring: Russian press warns of possible US-Russia clash in Syria.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The Syrian deadlock: Where do the sides go now? Russia and the West’s reciprocal accusations are becoming louder and louder after the latest failure of the peace process in Syria. Russian experts believe that the growing tension is not only undermining the possibility of reconciling Damascus and the opposition but is also threatening the apparent reestablishment of relations between Russia and the West.
24. Izvestia: Russian daily views US plan to solve Syria crisis by force.
25. TASS: Russian operation in Syria: one year on.
26. Russia Insider/Na Linii: How Much a Year in Syria Costs Russia – Actually Not That Much. The intervention is a game changer for the price of a regular military exercise.
27. www.rt.com: Russian server co. head on DNC hack: ‘No idea’ why FBI still has not contacted us.
28. www.rt.com: Putin signs decree suspending Russia-US deal on plutonium disposal over hostile US actions.
29. Russia Direct: The complexities of arming Ukraine with lethal weapons. Debates: Top experts explain what is behind new U.S. political efforts to send defensive lethal arms to Ukraine and what might be the possible implications.
30. New York Times: What Is Russia Up To, and Is It Time to Draw the Line?
31. The Hill: Tara Sonenshine, The Russians are not coming; they’re already here.
32. Washington Post: Yevgenia Albats, Clinton, Trump and the power of Russian propaganda.
33. The Guardian (UK): John Kampfner, All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin – review. Mikhail Zygar’s compelling study shines a light on the fearful band of acolytes second-guessing the wishes of the Russian leader
34. Wall Street Journal: Stephen Sestanovich, Behind Vladimir Putin’s Trouble With the Truth.