RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-225 :: Friday, 2 December 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#225
Friday, 2 December 2016
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1. The Daily Express (UK): ‘We’re OUTBREEDING you!’ Putin taunts West as he unveils drive to boost Russian birth rate.
2. USnews.com: Panetta: Putin Wants To Restore the Soviet Union. The former secretary of defense has made similar remarks before, but this time he was more direct.
3. Russia Direct: Does Putin really intend to restore the Soviet Union? RD Interview: Professor Richard Sakwa from the University of Kent talks about Russia’s foreign policy and explains why Russia is creating alternative regional institutions such as the Eurasian Economic Union.
4. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Gazeta.ru: Fyodor Lukyanov, Why it’s time for Russia to offer more than just a vision for the world. It might be too early to sum up the international events of the outgoing year just yet, but everything that was meant to happen already has, and the principal consequences are evident. The global system is entering a new phase of development. Neither the outcome of the Brexit referendum in June nor Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election in…..
5. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, DON’T MENTION THE WAR.
6. www.rt.com: Russia sets out its policy on terrorism, nuclear war & global ties in new Foreign Policy Concept.
7. RIA Novosti: Putin approves Russia’s new foreign policy blueprint.
8. Kremlin.ru: Joint meeting of the Council for Culture and Art and the Council on the Russian Language.
9. www.rt.com: Putin praises people’s unity, but says there’s no way back to ideological monopoly.
10. BBC Monitoring: Russian press: Putin’s address “calm” and “indifferent”
11. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Last chance? Putin vows – again – to bring economic reform to Russia. In his state of the union speech Thursday, Putin said he would wean Russia from its oil dependency, revive its flagging economic dynamism, and restore its global reputation. But his window may be closing.
12. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, With Trump on the way, Putin plays ‘wait and see’ on Russia-US relations.
13. Washington Post: David Filipov and Andrew Roth, Vladimir Putin gives a Soviet-style state of the union, and some Russian eyes glazed over.
14. Reuters: Ahead of promised cut, Russia’s oil output hits record high.
15. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Cyber-war starting? Russia’s FSB warns of massive cyber-attack on Russian banks on Monday.
16. Russia Direct: Trump’s presidency through the lens of a Russian political consultant. RD Interview: Evgeny Minchenko, one of the independent observers during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, discusses Trump’s future team and the probable impact of his upcoming presidency on U.S.-Russia relations.
17. The National Interest/Carnegie Corporation: Timothy Colton, Advice to President Trump on U.S.-Russia Policy. America shouldn’t let its firmness toward Russia turn into rigidity.
18. The National Interest/Carnegie Corporation: Nikolas Gvosdev, America and Russia: Transcending Friend or Foe. Trump’s administration must grasp the costs America is willing to pay and the limits of what can be demanded of Russia.
19. USNews.com: Hans Binnendijk and William Courtney, Can Trump Make a Deal with Putin? If Trump is prepared and Russia signals it’s ready to progress, the U.S. could make real inroads.
20. Valdai Discussion Club: TURNING POINT: THE INEVITABLE LIBERATION OF ALEPPO. The liberation of Aleppo is inevitable and we can only argue about the timeframes, Valdai Club expert Vladimir Yevseyev says. Turkey, for its part, has few prospects of success in Syria, as it will be under pressure from both the Syrian Kurds and the Syrian army.
21. Russian International Affairs Council: Ivan Timofeev, Russia and NATO in the Baltic.
22. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, “Fake News” Fizzles on Arrival.
23. The New Yorker: Adrian Chen, THE PROPAGANDA ABOUT RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA.
24. Washington Post editorial: Beware: The Russian bear is getting bolder. Moscow’s agents are implicated in two dangerous plots in Eastern Europe.
25. Kyiv Post: Fugitive lawmaker gives FBI recordings of Poroshenko.
26. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Uganda with Ukrop.
