RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-188 :: Tuesday, 11 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#188
Tuesday, 11 October 2016

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1. Valdai Discussion Club: Richard Sakwa, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY AND WORLD ORDERS.
2. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, U.S. Intelligence meddles in U.S. Presidential election: backs Hillary Clinton, tries to stop Donald Trump. The fact and evidence free statement by US intelligence that Russia was behind the DNC leak is an attempt to swing the US Presidential election in Hillary Clinton’s favour and amounts to the direct interference of US intelligence in a democratic US election.
3. Washington Post editorial: Trump, Putin’s puppet. As Russia tries to interfere with the U.S. election, Trump runs interference.
4. www.thedailybeast.com: Michael Weiss, Barack Obama’s Wrong: The New Cold War’s Only Just Begun. From propaganda to missile deployments, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is testing Obama’s resolve-while claiming to be America’s victim.
5. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Putin’s Stalin Envy.
6. Paul Goble: The Three Kinds of Stalinists in Putin’s Russia Don’t Include Any Real Ones, Malashenko Says.
7. Russia Direct: Reshuffle within the Kremlin, US-Russia plutonium deal and the Syrian crisis. Russian media roundup: The ongoing political reshuffle within the Kremlin’s inner circle, suspension of the U.S.-Russia agreement on weapons-grade plutonium and renewed military escalation in Syria all made headlines last week.
8. Vedomosti: Russian pundits view key Kremlin appointment. (re Sergei Kiriyenko)
9. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Commentary views principles of new Russian Duma speaker. (re Vyacheslav Volodin)
10. www.rt.com: New wartime state management system gives full power to Russian military – report.
11. Kremlin.ru: World Energy Congress in Istanbul.
12. Reuters: Oil hits one-year high as Russia ready to join output caps.
13. www.rt.com: Rosneft boss says no to output freeze or cut.
14. Sputnik: Western Sanctions Result in ‘Unusual Improvements’ for Russian Oil Industry.
15. Russia Direct: Pavel Timofeyev, Putin cancels visit to France, goes to Berlin instead. Despite major differences on Ukraine and Syria, there is still the potential for Russia and France to develop new bilateral economic, cultural, scientific and educational projects.
16. Sputnik: Russian Bases Abroad ‘Must be Politically and Militarily Viable’
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia to establish a permanent naval base in Syria. The Russian naval facility in the city of Tartus will be upgraded into a permanent naval base. Military experts believe that the Russian Defense Ministry may set up a detachment of ships in the Mediterranean armed with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles and headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.
18. New York Times: Warming Relations in Person, Putin and Erdogan Revive Pipeline Deal.
19. Russia Direct: Pietro Shakarian, What do Georgian elections mean for Moscow-Tbilisi relations? Based on the strong showing of the Georgian Dream in recent parliamentary elections, there is now hope for a broader Russian-Georgian rapprochement that won’t be spoiled by pro-Western parties.
20. Russia Insider/Izvestia: No Prospect of World War – The US Is Bluffing. A direct US-Russian confrontation is impossible, but there are fears of incidents in third countries, states an influential Russian daily newspaper.
21. The National Interest: Ted Galen Carpenter, Why Russia Fears NATO.
22. Oilprice.com: Wikileak: Clinton Told Oil Majors Environmentalism Is Russian Hoax.
23. Washington Post: David Filipov and Andrew Roth, Here’s what Donald Trump needs to know about ‘the inner workings of Russia’
24. New York Times: Oliver Bullough, Putin in Syria: Chechnya All Over Again.
25. www.rt.com: ‘Boy was torn apart’: Residents talk to RT in Aleppo hospital.
26. Counterpunch.org: Patrick Cockburn, How the West’s Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians.
27. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, and The ‘Group Think’ Media Pushing Us Towards WW3. The ‘ostrich effect’ over looming nuclear war is the true nature of modern day isolationism in the United States.
28. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Phoebe Taplin, The Kukotsky Enigma: a sprawling philosophical epic with a Tolstoyan edge. Leo Tolstoy, often an influence in Ulitskaya’s work, pervades this novel about family life, science, music, memory and the power of love.

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