RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-185 :: Thursday, 6 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#185
Thursday, 6 October 2016
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1. Valdai Discussion Club: Dmitry Suslov, RUSSIA-US: HOW TO OVERCOME THE NEW CONFRONTATION.
2. Financial Times: Dmitri Trenin, The prospect of a superpower war in Syria is hardly far-fetched. Respect has almost gone, and this should be keeping people in Moscow and Washington awake at night.
3. The Guardian (UK): Mary Dejevsky, Syria isn’t a cold war conflict: the US and Russia can’t just fix it. The superpowers have little control over events in Aleppo. Others must intervene if there is to be peace.
4. Kremlin.ru: Vladimir Putin addressed State Duma.
5. www.rt.com: Russia’s strength is its unity – Putin to Duma.
6. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, THE LIMITS OF POWER. (re Putin)
7. Moscow Times: Putin to New Duma: Power is Key to Russian Existence.
8. www.rt.com: Russia’s former nuclear boss appointed deputy head of presidential administration. (Sergey Kiriyenko)
9. BBC Monitoring: Russian press focuses on key Kremlin appointment and new Duma.
10. Interfax: Russian Memorial NGO receives “undesirable” funds – ministry.
11. Bear Market Blog: Nick Trickett, Wheat from Chaff: Russia’s going Agro.
12. Paul Goble: Russians’ Incomplete Transition from Rural to Urban Life behind Many of Russia’s Problems, Vishnevsky Says.
13. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV talk show audience opposes abortion ban.
14. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Call of the Urals? German transplant to Russia finds the adventure of his life. Stefan Semken closed a business in Bremen 15 years ago. Today he and his Russian wife introduce tourists to the ‘real’ Russia in a formerly closed military industrial region.
15. www.rt.com: ‘S-300, S-400 air defenses in place’: Russian MoD warns US-led coalition not to strike Syrian army.
16. BBC Monitoring: Pundits warn of Russia-US confrontation in Syria.
17. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Igor Subbotin, What Russian Aerospace Forces managed to do over year of operation in Syria. End of Jihadist expansion.
18. Asia Times: MK Bhadrakumar, Battle of Aleppo is end of history in the Middle East.
19. www.rt.com: ‘US marginalizes itself, not Russia, by halting cooperation on Syria’ – diplomat. (Chas Freeman)
20. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, New ‘Group Think’ for War with Syria/Russia. Official Washington has a new “group think” that is even more dangerous than the one that led to the Iraq War. This one calls for U.S. escalation of conflicts against Syria and nuclear-armed Russia
21. www.rt.com: Alexander Yakovenko, Why Russia was forced to suspend plutonium deal with US.
22. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, Is Russia Really Winning in Syria and Ukraine? Moscow didn’t expect things would go this badly.
23. https://off-guardian.org: Fact-sheet on the White Helmets.
24. Reuters: Next U.S. President, Putin’s Fourth, Inherits Sinking Russia Ties.
25. The National Interest: Gerald Hyman, What Does Putin Want? The United States should pursue confrontation where necessary and mutual interests without illusions where possible.
26. The Washington Times: Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras, Hillary’s Russian red herring. Demonizing Putin to score campaign points is a perilous strategy
27. Counterpunch.org: David Swanson, What’s Behind Time Magazine’s Putin Demonizing?
28. Russia Direct: Irina Khalturina, The search for stability in the post-Soviet space. A number of post-Soviet republics are already in the process of making constitutional changes to augment the power of the presidency. Could Russia be next?
29. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Robert Chandler: I translate books that matter to me. Robert Chandler has produced critically acclaimed translations of Pushkin, Vasily Grossman and Platonov among others. RBTH spoke to him on the eve of his monthly translation workshop in London.
30. www.rt.com: Only 1% of Russians believe their country was complicit in MH17 disaster.