RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-218 :: Wednesday, 23 November 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#218
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

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0. Waterford Whispers News: Cure For Being American Still Decades Away, Say Experts.
1. www.rt.com: Dmitry Babich, Who will tell the people: Russian institute exposes Western media lies. (re Syria)
2. New York Times: Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript (excerpt re foreign policy)
3. TASS: Mutually beneficial ties with U.S. are more important than ‘reset’ – Peskov.
4. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Why Russians are so captivated by Trump. Negative feelings toward the US are higher than at any time since scientific polling began in Russia in the mid-1980s. But many see the prospect for a turnaround.
5. Rethinking Russia: Vyacheslav Volodin: It is an Unprecedented Rapprochement of American and Russian Presidents’ Stances.
6. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, LAZY JOURNALISM. (re Luke Harding)
7. Wall Street Journal: To Fight Grievances, Russian Farmer Takes Road to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. Alexei Volchenko and several hundred fellow farmers believe the president is the only person who can help them redress land seizures.
8. Reuters: Russia’s Putin chastises officials who moonlight as academics.
9. Russia Direct: Marina Obrazkova, Russia’s opposition leader Navalny declares presidential bid. Prominent opposition figure and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has announced he plans to run for the presidency, with criminal charges against him suspended. However, Russia’s experts are divided in their assessments of his chances in the 2018 presidential elections.
10. Russia Direct: Ekaterina Grobman, Khodorkovsky drums up support in Europe for an alternative to Putin. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch and an opposition activist, continues to look for support within Europe for his Open Russia movement, which offers an alternative to the regime of Vladimir Putin.
11. www.rt.com: Khodorkovsky suspect in fraud probe on €100mn frozen in Irish-domiciled funds.
12. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, Putin’s Surprise: The Resurrection of Sergei Kirienko (Complete Version – Parts 1 and 2)
13. Valdai Discussion Club: EXPERT DISCUSSION “THE VECTORS OF RUSSIA’S MACROECONOMIC POLICY”
14. TASS: Putin urges strict control over deals on privatization of state assets.
15. Bear Market Brief: 10% of Russians Own Almost 90% of National Wealth.
16. Bear Market Brief: Russians Saving Now, but with Potential Costs Later.
17. Bloomberg: Big Western Companies Are Pumping Cash Into Russia.
18. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Russia Is The ‘Trump Trade’ In Emerging Markets.
19. Oilprice.com: Russia Is Finally Making Headway In Its Pivot East.
20. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Will Trump take on Wall Street – and if so, will Russia benefit? Will the looming burst of the American financial bubble push U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to nationalize the Federal Reserve System? Will he reboot the U.S. economy? And will this endanger or, on the contrary, benefit Russia?
21. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Russia will not sacrifice its alliance with China to please Donald Trump. Russia’s political and economic interests as well as the strength and depth of its alliance with China make it inconceivable that it would distance itself from Beijing in order to please Donald Trump.
22. Izvestia: Daily views chances of Russia’s joining US-led coalition in Syria.
23. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Analyst looks at impact Trump’s victory may have on Russia. (Leonid Radzikhovsky)
24. Counterpunch.org: BORIS KAGARLITSKY, Once Upon a Time in America.
25. Chronicles: Edward Lozansky and Jim Jatras, The big three: America, Russia, and China must join hands for security, prosperity, and peace.
26. The Atlantic: Kathryn Stoner, Cooperation With Russia Is Possible. But it will depend on what, exactly, Trump is trying to achieve.
27. Russian International Affairs Council: Vladislav Vorotnikov, Igor Yurgens, Ivan Timofeev, and Sergey Kulik, Russia and the European Union in the Baltic Sea Region. (excerpt)
28. www.thedailybeast.com: Anna Nemtsova, Three Years On, Ukrainians Say Their Revolution Was Betrayed. The uprising that began on Nov. 21, 2013, brought down one regime of crooks only to see it replaced with another.
29. Facebook: David Filipov, Life in Moscow. (with comment by Fred Weir)

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