RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-205 :: Thursday, 3 November 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#205
Thursday, 3 November 2016
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1. New York Times: Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day.
2. Valdai Discussion Club: Andrey Bystritskiy, AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.
3. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, BLAME CANADA!…OR PUTIN.
4. Russia Insider: James Holbrooks, Russia: The West Is Trapped in Its Own ‘Propaganda-Created World.’ Sounds about right.
5. Carnegie Moscow Center: Konstantin Gaaze, A Russian Reformer Returns to Power-But What For? What will the two recently appointed behind-the-scenes technocrats, Sergei Kiriyenko and Anton Vaino, do in the Kremlin? They will have no say in foreign policy, and even in domestic politics they cannot change course unless the president desires it. It seems that both are awaiting orders. They must have a mission of some sort, a specific project to carry out. But what is it?
6. Moscow Times: Top Kremlin Official Threatens Russia’s So-Called ‘Chief Propagandist.’ (Kirienko re Kiselyov)
7. BBC Monitoring: Russian press views preparations for 2018 presidential race.
8. Russia Direct: Marina Obrazkova, Could students lead the next Russian protest movement? According to some reports, the government is now assessing the Russian student community as a potential source of future protest activity. The key concern appears to be that wide-scale economic dislocation may spark discontent among the nation’s youth.
9. Financial Times: John Lloyd, Russia’s dissenters choose passive resistance. Voters are turning away from society’s truths towards private pursuits.
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Moscow authorities seal Amnesty International office. The Moscow Department of Urban Property seized Amnesty International’s office on Nov. 2 for allegedly violating its lease, claiming the organization was in arrears in paying its rent. Amnesty representatives denied the accusation.
11. Kremlin.ru: Soobschchestvo active citizens’ forum.
12. Interfax: Convict Dadin’s torture claim not confirmed so far – Russian Investigative Committee.
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Bloody business: Russia’s struggle to stand up for animal rights. Russian society has been outraged by the case of two teenage girls who dismembered animals on camera. RBTH finds out about animal rights in Russia and how cruelty towards animals is punished.
14. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Not a ‘Western disease’ after all: How HIV appeared in the USSR. Russia continues to struggle with a serious HIV problem, with almost 2 percent of the population of one Urals city infected. AIDS appeared much later in the USSR than in the West – in fact, for a time, the HIV virus was naively considered an inherently “Western” disease. How did it come to the Soviet Union and what is the chief cause of infection today?
15. Reuters: Russian ministry eyes $16 billion in privatizations in 2017-19.
16. www.rt.com: Russian manufacturing activity back on track.
17. www.rt.com: Russian reactor running on weapons-grade plutonium from warheads named ‘top plant’ by US magazine.
18. BBC Monitoring: Kremlin denies rumours of foreign software substitution.
19. Russia Direct: Andrei Zolotov, Detachment rather than estrangement will save Russia-European relations. A new report by two leading Russian foreign policy experts argues for a radical reassessment of Moscow’s way of engaging with its western partners. (Fyodor Lukyanov and Alexei Miller)
20. www.rt.com: Lavrov: US will have to negotiate with Russia, can’t act alone on global issues.
21. Moscow Times: Russians Are Growing Uneasy About the Kremlin’s War in Syria, New Poll Shows.
22. www.foreignpolicy.com: Democrats and Republicans Alike Want the U.S. to Work With Russia Against ISIS.
23. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the “moderate rebels” are fighting together in Aleppo. Western claims that the “moderate rebels” fighting the Syrian government are totally separate and antagonistic to ISIS are disproved by the fighting in Aleppo.
24. Robert O. Freedman: RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2015-2016: PUSHING ON AN OPEN DOOR.
25. Russian International Affairs Council: Russia and the US in the Arctic: Cooperate to Survive.
26. Boston Globe: Stephen Kinzer, The looming age of US aggression.
27. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Phony ‘Corruption’ Excuse for Ukraine Coup. The U.S.-backed “regime change” in Ukraine – launching the New Cold War with Russia in 2014 – was rationalized by the need to rid Ukraine of corruption, but post-coup officials are busy lining their pockets.
28. www.opendemocracy.net: Anton Shekhovtsov, This is not a new Cold War. Fresh talk of a new Cold War between Russia and the west relies on outdated thinking and ignores new realities.
