RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-222 :: Tuesday, 29 November 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#222
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
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1. TASS: Kremlin notes Putin’s address to parliament this year will be ‘special’
2. CNN: Dining under Putin: How sanctions are fueling a Russian food revolution.
3. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, If Trump wanted a US-Russia ‘grand bargain,’ what would it look like? There is little optimism in Russia that there could be a serious reconciliation between Washington and Moscow, even if Donald Trump is in the White House. But if it happened, this is what Russian analysts say it would have to entail.
4. Bear Market Brief: Investors, Russians Optimistic on Trump (with Grain of Salt)
5. www.rt.com: Russians warm towards West & favor rapprochement, poll shows.
6. Russia Direct: Pavel Koshkin, Propaganda or not? With some Western pundits and journalists accusing the Kremlin of interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential race and contributing to Donald Trump’s victory, Moscow and Washington increasingly find themselves engaged in another information war. (DJ quoted)
7. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, WAR: WHAT’S IN A WORD? (re Mark Galeotti)
8. Russia Direct: Europe’s information war with the Kremlin, Fidel Castro’s death and a rebuke for Russia’s bureaucrats. Russian media roundup: Europe’s growing information war with Russia, the death of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, and a new move to make the Russian bureaucracy more effective all made headlines last week.
9. Bear Market Brief: Higher School: Russians in “Consumer Coma”
10. Bloomberg: Russia’s Central Bank Wants You to Believe. Governor Elvira Nabiullina has introduced her own version of forward guidance. The results are mixed.
11. Reuters: Arrested Russian minister wanted state to cede control over Rosneft: sources. (re Alexei Ulyukayev)
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Seven years after the end of the war, is it safe to travel in Chechnya? It has been over 7 years since the end of the conflict in Russia’s Caucasus republic of Chechnya. An RBTH correspondent finds out what life is like in the region and whether it is now safe for tourists to go there.
13. The National Interest/Carnegie Corporation: Symposium: Advice to President Trump on U.S.-Russia Policy. What should Donald Trump do when it comes to Russia?
14. The National Interest: Graham Allison, Wishful Thinking and Vital Interests. America’s next leader should bear in mind the potential consequences of further alienating Russia.
14. The National Interest: Graham Allison, Wishful Thinking and Vital Interests. America’s next leader should bear in mind the potential consequences of further alienating Russia.
15. The National Interest: Paul Saunders, Put Russia into Context. The next administration must consider where Russia fits into its overall foreign-policy objectives.
16. Sputnik: US State Dept. Prepared to Engage Russia on Issues Affecting Strategic Stability.
17. Defenseone.com: Peter Zwack, Breaking Down US-Russian Distrust With Time, Talk, and Meals. A recent session of the long-running Dartmouth Conference shows how non-governmental dialogue can ease tense relations.
18. Washington Post: Brittany Holom, Alyssa Haas and Yury Barmin, U.S.-Russia relations are at a real low. Here’s the diplomacy that is working.
19. Washington Post: Katrina vanden Heuvel, Putin didn’t undermine the election. We did.
20. www.antiwar.com: Justin Raimondo, The Witch-Hunters. Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
21. Bangor Daily News (Maine): Gwynne Dye, After Aleppo: A kind of peace?
22. Indian Punchline: M K Bhadrakumar, Russia can hope for good times with Europe.
23. Valdai Discussion Club: Yuri Rubinsky, FRANÇOIS FILLON AND MARINE LE PEN: WHO IS MORE ‘PRO-RUSSIAN’?
24. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, Is Russian Losing Its Status as an International Language? There will be 17% fewer Russian Speakers in the World by 2025 Compared to 2010. However, Russian is the Second Most Popular Internet Language.
25. Moscow Times: Russia’s Holocaust-Themed Ice-Skating Performance Is Totally Lost on the West. Artists defend their unusual homage to Roberto Benigni’s ‘Life Is Beautiful’
26. Awful Avalanche: Holocaust On Ice: When Westies Don’t Like Edgy Culture – Part I.
27. New York Times: Mark Taimanov, World-Class Chess and Piano Player, Dies at 90.
28. Paul Goble: Russians Want West to Make Up with Them and Don’t See Why Ukraine Should Be an Obstacle, New Poll Suggests.
29. Facebook: Ivan Katchanovski, Yanukovich Testimony. (video)
30. www.rt.com: New authorities used tanks against opponents, not me – ousted Ukrainian president.
31. Russian Chamber Art Society concert in Washington December 8.