RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-216 :: Saturday, 19 November 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#216
Saturday, 19 November 2016
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1. Russia Direct: Russia’s relations with the West, through a neorealist filter. RD Interview: University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer talks about the U.S., Russia and China and how relations among them matter for the international order.
2. LobeLog: Hannah Gais, Trump: An Opportunity for Russia?
3. TASS: Kremlin aide details recent Putin-Trump phone conversation.
4. Russia Matters: Survey: What Will a Trump Presidency Mean for US-Russia Relations? (RM experts Thomas Graham, Andrew Kuchins, Thomas Graham, Olga Oliker, Steven Pifer)
5. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, Will President-Elect Trump End the New Cold War? Whatever Americans think of the next president’s other policies, exceedingly dangerous US-Russian conflicts have become the greatest threat to American and international security.
6. Valdai Discussion Club: Ivan Timofeev, DUAL CONTAINMENT: TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY DILEMMAS.
7. www.rt.com: Trump 11 times more popular than Clinton in Russia, poll shows.
8. www.rt.com: Foreign agent: Leading Russian independent pollster Levada Center loses court bid.
9. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Experts view inertness of Russian establishment and opposition.
10. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, Inside the anti-corruption campaign against Russia’s liberals. The more the Russian opposition accuses the government of corruption, the more the Kremlin will search for anti-corruption targets within the liberal elites.
11. Reuters: Minister’s Arrest Leaves Russian Officials Asking: Who’s Next?
12. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Ulyukaev arrest intrudes on Moscow Exchange NY event.
13. The Unz Review: The Saker, Putin Is (Finally) Purging the Medvedev Government.
14. Vedomosti: Editorial critically views fight against corruption in Russia.
15. www.rt.com: Putin: Russia will oppose any attempts to break global strategic balance, incl. NATO missile system.
16. Russia International Affairs Council: Dmitry Danilov, The “Trump Doctrine” in NATO. Europe and Russia are anticipating an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration.
17. AP: Leaders Mark Soviet Dissolution, Urge Ukraine Dialogue.
18. www.rt.com: Alan Moore, Russian Olympic athletes confront world of hypocrisy, geopolitical intrigue & fig leaves.
19. www.opendemocracy.net: Kirill Kobrin, The Eternally Wonderful Present, or Russia’s need for a new culture. The USSR aimed to create a “multinational Soviet culture”, but in post-Soviet Russia national culture has become the goal – while Soviet nostalgia is beginning to wear thin.
20. Awful Avalanche: Op-Ed: On Modern Russian Culture: Prologue to the Prologue.
21. Awful Avalanche: Op-Ed: On Modern Russian Culture: Part I.
22. Paul Goble: Putinism a Greater Threat to the West than Soviet Communism Was.
