RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-212 :: Tuesday, 15 November 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#212
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
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1. Kremlin.ru: Telephone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump.
1a. www.greatagain.gov: READOUT OF PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP’S PHONE CALL WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN.
2. The Interpreter (The Lowy Institute-Australia): Matthew Dal Santo, The real Trump-Putin connection.
3. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Under Trump, China may once again replace Russia as main U.S. adversary. The imminent change in U.S. policy will alter Washington’s relations with the world, with Donald Trump’s promises to get tough on trade with China possibly heralding a souring in relations between the world’s two biggest economies. Meanwhile, his positive statements on Russia may see a warming in ties with Moscow.
4. Russia Direct: Trump’s victory, counter-terrorism, and the Ildar Dadin case. Russian media roundup: Republican Donald Trump becomes the 45th U.S. president, the Russian Federal Security Service prevents terror attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and Mikheil Saakashvili leaves his post as Odessa region governor.
5. Reuters: Russian Police Find Evidence of Fraud During Parliamentary Election.
6. Wall Street Journal: Russian Economy Minister Detained Over Bribery Allegations. Law enforcement agencies accuse Alexey Ulyukaev of accepting a bribe in a recent privatization deal.
7. Moscow Times: Updates: Russian Economy Minister Ulyukayev Appears in Court on Corruption Charge.
8. Bear Market Brief: Alexei Ulyukayev Arrested.
9. Moscow Times: ‘What the Hell Is Going On?’ Russia Reacts to Shock Detention of Economy Minister.
10. www.rt.com: Russian economy minister case sends message ‘no official is untouchable’
11. Awful Avalanche: An Interesting Footnote To The Ulyukaev Bribery Story.
12. www.rt.com: Russian ruble, stocks higher after Economy Minister arrest.
13. Moscow Times: Russian Central Bank Says Period of Stagnation Is Over.
14. RFE/RL: Smaller Decline In Russian Economy Suggests Recession Is Waning.
15. Forbes.com: Russia Says Another Oil Crash Not Likely, But $40 Oil For Three Years.
16. Russia Insider: Paul Goncharoff, Russia Is a Treasure Trove of Technological Innovation. But Russians still have to learn how to commercialize it.
17. Reuters: Russia May Loosen Budget Purse Strings as Election Draws Near.
18. CNN.com: Jim Rogers: Buy Russia after Trump win.
19. The Guardian (UK): Yevgenia Chirikova, In Russia it is getting harder to ignore the grassroots movement. Under Putin there has been an erosion of trust in the authorities to protect rights, but citizens have mobilised to plug the gaps.
20. Global Voices: Kevin Rothrock, Putin’s Adversaries in Russia Wonder How Much Worse Things Will Be Thanks to Trump.
21. Sputnik: 50 Shades of Hawkish: Bolton v Giuliani as Trump’s Top Picks for State Secretary.
22. Valdai Discussion Club: Anatol Lieven, TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY: WHAT MAY IT MEAN FOR RUSSIA, GERMANY AND THE WORLD?
23. Interfax: Russian official wary of Trump’s ability to keep pledges. (Ilya Rogachev)
24. Vedomosti: Putin-Trump relations to define Russia’s US agenda – expert.
25. The National Interest: Jeffrey Burt, James Hitch, Peter Pettibone, and Thomas Shillinglaw, A 3-Step Strategy for Trump on Ukraine.
26. Bloomberg: Trump, Putin and Sluggish Reforms Push Ukraine Toward Russia.
27. The Independent (UK): Robert Fisk, It’s not Donald Trump who matters now in the Middle East – it’s Putin. It is easy to say that the Arabs are appalled that an Islamophobe has won the White House. But did they think Obama or any of his predecessors – Democrat or Republican – had any special concern for Islam? Of course not.
28. Russia Direct: David Gordon, Russia-US environmental cooperation should not become endangered. The global challenge of climate change, discussed this week in Morocco, pushes Russian and U.S. environmentalists towards closer cooperation regardless of the ebb and flow of political tensions.
29. Interfax: Lavrov in conversation with Kerry outraged by U.S. visa refusal to FIDE president Ilyumzhinov.
30. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, Banning ex-US Ambassador McFaul won’t solve anything for the Kremlin. The Kremlin has apparently banned former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul from entering Russia. Yet, at the same time, Russia remains hopeful about a new reset under President Trump.
31. The Independent (UK): Mary Dejevsky, Don’t panic about President Trump – there are reasons to be optimistic, especially where Russia is concerned. What he said during the campaign about dealing with Putin suggests that he will be a foreign policy realist, and not just with Russia. His aversion to involvement in foreign wars that have no direct relation to US national security suggests the same thing.
32. Russian International Affairs Council: Igor Istomin, Is Donald Trump the unavowed heir to Barack Obama?
33. Russian International Affairs Council: Maria Gurova, To Block or Not to Block. (re LinkedIn)
34. BBC Monitoring: Russian press cautious about Moldova, Bulgaria election results.
35. Carnegie Moscow Center: Artyom Shraibman, How Long Can Belarus’s Balancing Act Last? Russia and the West are less and less willing to compromise with Belarus. Both know that Belarus is in a weak negotiating position and are demanding more of Minsk than ever before.
36. Pravda.ru: In Soviet times, there was no war against all.
37. Pravda.ru: What was it like to live in the Soviet Union?
38. www.opendemocracy.net: Kirill Kobrin, The roots of Russia’s atomised mourning. Post-Soviet people have spent two decades mourning a society that never existed.
39. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, BARRY PARSNIP FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE – HOW INFO-WARFARE AGAINST RUSSIA WORKED BEFORE, NOT SO WELL THESE DAYS. (re CIA and Pasternak)