RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-184 :: Wednesday, 5 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#184
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
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1. The RAND Corporation: Christopher S. Chivvis, Russia’s Determination to Revise the Post-Cold War Order.
2. The National Interest: Christopher S. Chivvis, Time to Bury Plans for Counter-Terrorism Cooperation With Russia in Syria.
3. New York Times: Thomas Friedman, Let’s Get Putin’s Attention.
4. New York Times: Masha Gessen, Sociology, According to Putin.
5. New York Times: U.S. Election Cycle Offers Kremlin a Window of Opportunity in Syria.
6. New York Times: A Computer Guy of Interest to the F.B.I. Walks Into a Bar, in Siberia.
7. Washington Post editorial: The U.S. must act – finally – to end the calculated carnage in Syria. Ferocious attacks by Russian and Syrian forces on Aleppo are killing scores of civilians, including many Syrian children.
8. Washington Post: David Ignatius, ‘Surrender and you can eat again’: Aleppo on the brink. The Russians have made civilian suffering “a weapon of war”
9. Washington Post: Philip Bump, The Trump-Pence ticket transformed into Russia hawks in only 90 short minutes.
10. Wall Street Journal: Pence Calls Putin “Small and Bullying,” Breaking From Trump.
11. Wall Street Journal: Russia’s Military Sophistication in the Arctic Sends Echoes of the Cold War. Norwegian, NATO and U.S. officials express concerns over Moscow’s increased sophistication in region.
12. Wall Street Journal: U.S. Seeks to Redraw Ties With Russia in Syrian Conflict.
13. Wall Street Journal editorial: Putin Tightens His Grip on Syria. Moscow ships advanced antimissile systems as talks unravel.
14. Wall Street Journal: Karen Daisha, Welcome to the Putinkin Village. Putin was against hosting the Olympics until his minions, egged on by contract-driven oligarchs, organized a PR campaign for one “customer.”
15. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, What Putin Wants.
16. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Others Cease, Russia Fires.
17. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, In Putin’s World, Crime Pays.
18. RFE/RL: Analysis: ‘Barbarous’ Syria Bombings, MH17 Blame: What Consequences Could Russia Face?
19. Voice of America: Russia’s Syria Campaign Seen Purely as Bid to Prop Up Assad.
20. Voice of America: Expert: Putin’s Reported Plan to Restore KGB May Reflect Fear of Overthrow. (Mark Galeotti)
21. www.foreignaffairs.com: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright, The New Dictators. Why Personalism Rules.
22. www.foreignpolicy.com: Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, The United States Hwas to Put Teeth into Its Warnings to Assad and Putin.
23. www.foreignpolicy.com: Thomas Ricks, If Putin is hacking American elections, what other mischief might he be funding?
24. www.foreignpolicy.com: Ben Nimmo, How MH17 Gave Birth to the Modern Russian Spin Machine. The downing of a passenger flight over Ukraine triggered an extraordinary campaign of lying, dissembling, and distortion that hasn’t stopped since.
25. www.foreignpolicy.com: Mark Galeotti, Putin Is Playing by Grozny Rules in Aleppo. The playbook for Moscow’s brutal bombardment of Aleppo was written during the Russian president’s first take-no-prisoners war.
26. www.foreignpolicy.com: Julia Ioffe, Trump Won Putin’s Focus Group. Judging from Russia’s state-sponsored Twitter coverage of the presidential debate, the Kremlin is anything but a swing state.
27. Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill, 3 reasons Russia’s Vladimir Putin might want to interfere in the U.S. presidential elections.
28. Newsweek.com: Stephen Blank, PUTIN’S EMPIRE PROJECT IS THREATENED IN THE BALKANS. Russia’s fight to restore its sphere of influence stretches way beyond Ukraine.
29. Newsweek.com: Owen Matthews, HOW VLADIMIR PUTIN IS USING DONALD TRUMP TO ADVANCE RUSSIA’S GOALS.
30. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin’s Ultimatum to the Next U.S. President.
31. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Russian Economy Takes Hit From Putin’s Grip.
32. The Atlantic Council: Alexei Sobchenko, Kremlin Panics after Dutch Report, and It Should.
33. The Atlantic Council: Andrew Kornbluth, Stop Mistaking Russia for Europe.
34. The Huffington Post: Fernando Espuelas , Putin’s Man: Donald Trump Is The Russian Candidate. Electing Russia’s candidate to the White House is a danger to the very integrity of American democracy.
35. The Huffington Post: Frederic Hof, Putin V. Russia In Syria.
36. National Public Radio: Amid Deteriorating U.S.-Russia Relations, Questions Grow About Cyberwar.
37. National Public Radio: Can Russia Be Held Accountable For Weapons That Took Down Airliner?
38. Paul Goble: New Russian Consensus Reflects National Masochism, Rosbalt Commentator Says.
39. Paul Goble: Putin Making the Same Mistake Hitler Did, Piontkovsky Says.
40. Carnegie Moscow Center: Andrey Pertsev, Against Everything: Russia’s New Majority. There is a new political majority in Russia. It doesn’t believe in the country’s rulers, its opposition, or its institutions. This nameless, voiceless majority is characterized only by general discontent; it knows only what it stands against.
41. The Daily Signal: Luke Coffey, 6 Moves Putin’s Russia Could Make in Its Old Stomping Ground.
42. War on the Rocks: Joshua Foust, CAN FANCY BEAR BE STOPPED? THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER OF RUSSIAN INFO OPS. Russia is engaged in an unprecedented, sophisticated attack on the American political system. Defeating it won’t be easy.
43. The Guardian (UK): Shaun Walker, The murder that killed free media in Russia. A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin.
44. NBCNews.com: New Cold War? Russia, U.S. Relations At Lowest Point Since 1970s.