RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-194 :: Wednesday, 19 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#194
Wednesday, 19 October 2016

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1. Awful Avalanche: Attack of the Giant Beavers North of Moscow!
2. Just Security: Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, The Strategic Balance: A New US-Russian Zero Sum Game.
3. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, Russia Bids Farewell to Obama: A Message to the New US President.
4. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Russian election chief talks to paper about ongoing problems. (Ella Pamfilova)
5. Interfax: Daily Headline News for October 19, 2016. (excerpt re Medvedev)
6. Oilprice.com: Michael McDonald, Russia Shifts Focus From Oil To Agriculture.
7. Trud: Russian op-ed eyes ex-finance minister’s economy proposals. (Aleksey Kudrin)
8. Bloomberg: Russia’s Widening Wealth Divide Poses Risks to Central Bank.
9. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: How many ruble ‘millionaires’ are there in Russia? A total of 0.018 percent of employees receive a salary of over 1 million rubles in Russia. On average, these individuals earn 2.27 million rubles a month, or 67.2 of the average wage, according to the state statistical agency Rosstat’s detailed data, published for the first time. But appeals to consume less and save more are addressed not to them, but to much less wealthy citizens.
10. Russia Direct: Anthony Rinna, THAAD and the worsening Russia-US relationship. What potential for closer Russia-U.S. security collaboration on the Korean Peninsula had previously existed runs the risk of being overshadowed by larger strategic tensions.
11. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Poll: Clinton tops Trump worldwide, but not in Russia. Survey shows that the world would vote for the former secretary of state.
12. Russia Direct: How Russia’s former colony in the US brought together Russia and America. Interview: Sarah Sweedler, CEO of Fort Ross Conservancy, discusses the legacy of the former Russian settlement, its impact on U.S.-Russia relations and what the future might hold for the area.
13. The White House: Press Conference of President Obama and Prime Minister Renzi of the Republic of Italy. (excerpt re Russia)
14. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Obama finally upgrades Russia from ‘regional power’ to ‘important country’
15. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Trump won’t fix Russia-U.S. relations, says American political scientist. Political scientist and Chicago University professor John Mearsheimer sees no reason for conflict between Moscow and Washington but thinks that a change in relations is unlikely in the current circumstances.
6. Financial Times: Trump’s Russian connections. Pressure on Donald Trump over his ties with Russia has grown after the US formally accused Vladimir Putin’s government of meddling in November’s presidential election.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines/RBC Style: Russian characters in Western movies: From spies to allies. From over-the-top oligarchs, to femme fatales, to helpful colleagues, Russians have played a wide range of roles in Western films and TV series.
18. Asia Time: Sergei Blagov, Russian security alliance haunted by Soviet ghosts.
19. Rethinking Russia: Elkhan Nuriyev, The Changing Face of the CIS.
20. The New Yorker: Michelle Nijhuis, A FULLER VISION OF RUSSIA’S FAR EAST. A new translation restores Vladimir Arsenyev, one of the greatest explorers of the twentieth century, to his rightful perch.
21. Tulsa World (Oklahoma): Oklahoma National Guard will deploy to Ukraine in training support role.
22. www.rt.com: Putin, Merkel, Hollande & Poroshenko to discuss Ukraine crisis at Berlin meeting.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Who is behind the killing of Donbass commander ‘Motorola’? A Russian warlord known as “Motorola” has been killed in the Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, where he commanded the breakaway territory’s rebel forces. The identity of those responsible for the murder is unclear, with both Russia and Ukraine argue the rebel’s death is in the other’s interests.
24. Awful Avalanche: Motorola’s Assassination: This Means War – Part II.
25. Washington Post: David Ignatius, America’s election is giving the world some serious anxiety. Russia’s aggressive actions have many analysts worried about what the U.S. election results could do to global politics.
26. Paul Goble: Putinism Outgrowth of the Policies of Post-1991 Russia from Its Very Beginning, Inozemtsev Says.
27. www.opendemocracy.net: Kirill Kobrin, The death of the post-Soviet project in Russia. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s demise, it’s high time to remember what Soviet ideology was – and what it wasn’t.

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