RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-189 :: Wednesday, 12 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#189
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
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1. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Fyodor Lukyanov, Hold on tight: Riding the Russian-U.S. rollercoaster. With tensions currently at their highest since the pre-Gorbachev period, political analyst Fyodor Lukyanov explains the cycles that govern relations between Washington and Moscow.
2. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, The Growing Danger of Military Conflict with Russia. There are no risk-free options.
3. www.rt.com: National defense viewed as top priority for half of all Russians, poll shows.
4. Valdai Discussion Club: Timofei Bordachev, SYRIA: WAR OF THE WORLDS OR THE FUTURE TODAY.
5. Reuters: Putin says U.S. hacking scandal not in Russia’s interests.
6. www.rt.com: Putin: We know who destroyed aid convoy in Aleppo, Syria.
7. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One’s Vremya weekly news and analysis programme, broadcast on Sunday, Moscow, October 9, 2016. (transcript continued)
8. Rethinking Russia: The State Duma elected September 18, 2016 differs from the previous convocations in that it has many important peculiarities. Interview with Alexey Zudin, Member of the ISEPR Foundation Expert Board.
9. www.opendemocracy.net: Vladimir Slivyak, Sergey Kirienko, from nuclear to political power. After ten years as head of Rosatom, Sergey Kirienko is now deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration. What will he bring to the job?
10. Vedomosti: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of Open Russia movement: State reform Is needed. Open Russia founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky on how to avoid country’s collapse during regime change.
11. www.rt.com: Ethnic tensions in Russia at all-time low, poll shows.
12. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Labor Conflicts in Russia Almost Double.
13. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Warming Russia-Turkey relations send a chill through Ukraine. A joint natural gas pipeline, announced Monday, would help Turkey become an energy hub and give Russia a way to cut out Ukraine from gas exports to the EU.
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Finally, a green light for Russia’s Turkish Stream gas pipeline. Russian gas giant Gazprom has struck an agreement with Turkey on gas supplies via the Black Sea. The new project could lead to the abolition of gas transit through Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and the Balkans.
15. Consortiumnews.com: Ray McGovern, Russia Reads US Bluster as Sign of War. As U.S. politicians and pundits have fun talking tough about Russia and demonizing President Putin, they are missing signs that Moscow isn’t amused and is preparing for actual conflict.
16. Kennan Institute: E. Wayne Merry, Our Domestic Political Quandary on Russia.
17. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, I’m an Anti-Putin Russian and Clinton Makes Me Nervous.
18. Sputnik: US Elections Behind Current Tensions Between Moscow and Washington.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Russian Iskander ‘deliberately placed’ under passing U.S. satellite. Russian experts consider the deployment of Iskander missile systems in its Baltic exclave a logical response to the deployment of air and missile defense systems in Poland.
20. Russian International Affairs Council: Maria Gurova, Cyber-Hysteria in Russia-U.S. Relations.
21. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Western racism and the stereotyping of Russians. The ugly stereotyping of Russians which has become pervasive in the West, is the last remaining acceptable form of Western racism. Like all forms of racism, it is however offensive, dehumanising and dangerous.
22. Russia Direct: Sergey Markedonov, The victory of the Georgian Dream is beneficial for Russia and the West. A constitutional majority in parliament for the Georgian Dream party is in the interests of both Russia and the West. Here’s why.
23. Awful Avalanche: The Capture of Sukhum – Part V.