RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-195 :: Saturday, 22 October 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#195
Saturday, 22 October 2016
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1. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, DRIFTING TOWARDS AUTHORITARIANISM, OR NOT. (with comments)
2. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, US, Britain weigh new sanctions on Russia. But have the old ones worked? Though Russia’s economy has suffered in recent years, due in part to Western sanctions over Russian activities in Ukraine, the Kremlin – and the Russian public – have shown little sign of yielding.
3. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia’s only presidential library keeps the fires burning for Boris Yeltsin. Russia’s first president remains a controversial figure in his native land, where he is seen by some as a founding father and others as a man who nearly destroyed the country.
4. Russia Direct: Dmitry Polikanov, Why a military conflict between Russia and the US is unlikely. The risk of a military conflict between Moscow and Washington has been overstated. However, both sides should think about prevention mechanisms to minimize the risk of accidents that could lead to an open conflict.
5. Valdai Discussion Club: John Mearsheimer, TWO WORLDS, TWO PLAYBOOKS: WHY MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON DON’T UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.
6. The Spectator (UK): Ron Liddle, Stop this stupid sabre-rattling against Russia. It’s not their side that worries me; it’s ours.
7. www.rt.com: Between imaginary threats and hysteria: How Russia dominates Western headlines.
8. www.rt.com editorial: RT in UK: A brief history of mainstream hysteria.
9. Vedomosti: Russian experts view declining trust in authorities.
10. Gazeta.ru: Kremlin said moving closer to ex-finance minister think tank. (Alexei Kudrin)
11. Gazeta.ru: Website views Russia-US row over Syria.
12. Vedomosti: Russia loses influence over Damascus – pundit. (Leonid Isayev)
13. PONARS Eurasia: Samuel Charap, Russia’s Use of Military Force as a Foreign Policy Tool: Is There a Logic?
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines: As Ukraine peace talks fail again in Berlin, did Putin have other aims? Predictably, the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France in Berlin on Oct. 19 once again failed to bring any breakthroughs in the settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Russian observers believe that the current format is struggling to change things and Putin went to Berlin not so much for the sake of talking to Poroshenko as for the sake of meeting the European leaders.
15. Kremlin.ru: Statement for the press following visit to Berlin.
16. New York Times: 3 U.S. States Turn Down Russian Requests to Monitor Elections.
17. www.rt.com: They can’t rig elections, but they can fake it – US officials alter approach on ‘Russian hackers’
18. New York Times: The Hawk on Russia Policy? Hillary Clinton, Not Donald Trump.
19. www.rt.com: Russians consider US elections important; see Trump victory as chance to mend relations.
20. Paul Goble: Russia Faces 20 Years of Stagnation and Then Disaster, Navalny Says.
21. The Economist editorial: The threat from Russia. How to contain Vladimir Putin’s deadly, dysfunctional empire.
