RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-219 :: Thursday, 24 November 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#219
Thursday, 24 November 2016
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1. Intellinews.com: Putin approval rating at 4-year high of 86%.
2. www.rt.com: Russians’ attitude to United States shows improvement.
3. New York Times editorial: Warning Russia on Hacking Isn’t Enough.
4. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, The Friends and Foes of Détente With Russia. The mere adumbration of Trump-Putin cooperation has sent American Russo-phobic cold warriors into a frenzy of preemptive opposition.
5. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Russians think their country should become ‘a great power.’ The majority of Russians assume that the country will be a great power in the future and are ready to accept hardline policies for the sake of order in the country, according to a survey by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Most people are more concerned about personal problems than those of the state, however.
6. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the Council for Science and Education.
7. Kremlin.ru: Answers to journalists’ questions.
8. Business Gazeta: Alexey Arbatov: “Trump will say: Give Donetsk and Luhansk back to Ukraine”
9. Gazeta.ru: Pundit views implications of Trump’s presidency for Russia. (Fedor Lukyanov)
10. Russia Direct: Daniel Kozin, Why are Russians so optimistic about Trump? Donald Trump might be able to rebuild the U.S.-Russia relationship by focusing on shared national interests rather than shared national values.
11. Boston Globe: Stephen Kinder, Could Trump reform US foreign policy?
12. www.rt.com: Danielle Ryan, EU resolution on ‘Russian propaganda’ is attack on media freedom & stinks of hypocrisy.
13. Consortiumnews.com: Gilbert Doctorow, Demonizing Russian Media. The West is escalating its demonization of Russian media as weapons of “information warfare” that need neutralizing, but Gilbert Doctorow finds that accusation just another part of the West’s own propaganda war.
14. Russian International Affairs Council: Viktor Katona, Gazprom Gaining Ground in Europe.
15. The Economist: Russia’s pivot to Asia. Vladimir Putin is leaning east, but his engagement is superficial.
16. The National Interest: Areg Galstyan, Will Trump’s Presidency Overturn the Fragile Peace in Russia’s Backyard? The next U.S. administration should be careful with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
17. Interfax: Memorial publishes on its site list of almost 40,000 NKVD officials from 1935-1941.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Stalin’s terror: Should the names of NKVD executioners be made public? The tragedy of Stalin’s purges still looms large over Russian society. Online users are busy debating whether a young man from Tomsk was in the right when he decided to find out who was responsible for his great-grandfather’s execution and to make the names of his killers public.
19. Consortiumnews.com; Jonathan Marshall, Trump’s Possible Path Out of Ukraine Crisis. The U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 sparked a New Cold War with Russia, but a President Trump could roll back tensions with a creative strategy for resolving the Ukraine standoff.
20. www.rt.com: Ukrainian minister says Donbass residents genetically unfit for national culture.
21. Facebook: Ivan Katchanovski, Maidan shootings.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: New Oliver Stone documentary blames U.S. for Ukrainian revolutions. Russian television has broadcast Oliver Stone’s controversial documentary film “Ukraine on Fire,” in which he argues that Ukraine’s “Maidan” uprisings of 2004 and 2014 were the result of political maneuvering by the United States.