RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-200 :: Friday, 28 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#200
Friday, 28 October 2016

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1. www.rt.com: US no banana republic for Russia to meddle in its election – Putin.
2. www.rt.com: Calling Trump Moscow’s favorite is nonsense created by media – Putin.
3. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. (partial transcript)
4. BBC Monitoring: Russian press analyses Putin’s meeting with foreign pundits.
5. TASS: Lavrov discusses Russia’s relations with US, EU with Valdai club experts.
6. Reuters: Most Republicans Believe Russia Is Meddling in U.S. Election: Reuters/Ipsos Poll.
7. Antiwar.com: US to Hold Off on Cyberwar With Russia Until After Election. Rep. Schiff: US Doesn’t Want to Provoke Retaliation Before Vote.
8. BBC Monitoring: Russian “troll factory” attacked in St Petersburg – radio.
9. PBS Newshour: Does the U.S. government really know who hacked Democrats’ emails?
10. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, In Russia’s cyberscene: Kremlin desires, private hackers, and patriotism. Pinning down specific Russian responsibility for hacking incidents is complicated by Russia’s cybersecurity model. Most of the IT expertise lies in the private sector, and the Kremlin itself is surprisingly not tech-savvy.
11. Russia Beyond the Headlines: How does the Soviet past affect Russia’s relations with the world? In an atmosphere of distrust about modern Moscow’s intentions, international analysts and scholars have met in Sochi 25 years after the end of the Soviet Union to discuss the causes of its collapse and the direction of current Russian foreign policy.
12. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Kremlin ex-chief denies plans to resurrect security ministry. (Sergei Ivanov interview)
13. Vedomosti: Journalist views fall in Russians’ trust in authorities. (Maria Zheleznova)
14. Moscow Times: Ilya Yashin, After the Duma Elections, Russian Opposition Must Clean House.
15. UPI.com: Russian oil production reached post-Soviet high. Moody’s says profitability of Russian energy companies will be robust.
16. TASS: Russian Armed Forces upgrade prioritized in 2017-2019 budget.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines/RBC: Is it necessary to break the law to improve your standard of living? According to the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), 30 percent of Russians see a link between increasing their standard of living and breaking the law.
18. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, ECONOMY UPGRADE: Russia’s economic management receives multiple endorsements. Successful eurobond sale in September, credit upgrade by Fitch, and sharp improvement in World Bank Ease of Doing Business ranking, all confirm effectiveness of Russian government’s economic policies, amidst strengthening recovery.
9. Russia Direct: Sergey Markedonov, Remembering Nord-Ost, 14 years later. Back in October 2002, a brutal terrorist attack in the center of Moscow reshaped the way Russians viewed the threat posed by radical Islamic terror.
20. Izvestia: Russia to invite USA to cooperate on Syria – daily.
21. Moscow Times: Dmitry Streltsov, Russia’s Latest Eastern Pivot … to Japan. A softening of the Russo-Japanese island dispute signals Moscow’s new diplomatic strategy.
22. The Nation: James Carden, Obama’s Foreign Policy: A Hostage to Bipartisan Consensus. He may have criticized the “Washington playbook,” but he couldn’t overcome DC’s interventionist orthodoxy. (excerpts)
23. The Economist: Trump and Putin. My brilliant friend. What explains the Republican nominee’s fondness for Russia’s president?
24. www.thedailybeast.com: Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokno: Julian Assange Is ‘Connected with the Russian Government.’ One of the leaders of the anti-Putin punk rock collective Pussy Riot opens up about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks’ ties to the Kremlin, and the group’s anti-Trump anthem.
25. TASS: Putin is sure Russia and Ukraine will find way to end crisis.
26. BBC: Ukraine politicians’ huge cash piles exposed in reform drive.
27. TASS: Over 65,000 Ukrainians take on Russian citizenship in 2015.
28. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, The Russian-American Cultural-Ideational Contention.

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