RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-226 :: Monday, 5 December 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#226
Monday, 5 December 2016
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1. Reuters: U.S. reshaping budget to account for Russian military threat.
2. www.rt.com: Alan Moore, Nerves of steel: Chess Grandmasters prove their mettle.
3. BBC Monitoring: Putin says “unipolar” model failed, world enters “different dimension”
4. www.rt.com: Putin: Trump is smart, will soon be aware of different level of responsibility.
5. Sputnik: ‘Current Reality’ Prompts Changes to Russia’s New Foreign Policy Concept.
6. Vedomosti: Expert views Russia’s new Foreign Policy Concept. (Fyodor Lukyanov)
7. Financial Times: Moscow Diary: Edward Luce.
8. New York Times: In Meeting, Putin Vows to Protect Artistic Freedom in Russia.
9. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, Why Putin’s Federal Assembly address was surprisingly bland this year. In his year-end address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin offered little in the way of a strategic vision for the nation.
10. Interfax: Navalny blames authorities for using criminal proceeding to bar him from elections.
11. www.rt.com: Mainstream media’s Russian ‘fake news’ narrative kills real debate – Spectator deputy editor.
12. The National Interest/Carnegie Corporation: J. Andrew Spindler, Continue the Unfinished Business of Integrating Russia into the Global Economy. Renewed economic interaction would increase the West’s influence, not lessen it.
13. The National Interest/Carnegie Corporation: Andrew Kuchins, Reassess and Reassure. A new Trump administration could move Russia away from its anti-Western posture.
14. The Independent (UK): Patrick Cockburn, This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong. It is too dangerous for journalists to operate in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Mosul. But there is a tremendous hunger for news from the Middle East, so the temptation is for the media give credence to information they get second hand.
15. http://21stcenturywire.com: UNCLOAKED: White Helmets Rescue Crisis Actor in ‘Mannequin Challenge’ Fakery.
16. The Independent (UK): Mary Dejevsky, We have to accept that Assad will win in Syria – and the West should be ashamed of how we drew the conflict out There will be claims, in the aftermath, that the anti-Assad opposition was betrayed by its Western backers, and accusations of ‘appeasement’ – but the truth is that the opposition to Assad was always too fractious to complete the task it set out to do.
17. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Russia to Aleppo Jihadis: leave or die as terrorists. Russia gives ultimatum to US and to Jihadis in Aleppo to withdraw immediately from the city or be attacked as terrorists.
18. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Clinton’s ‘Russia Did It’ Cop-out. In a last-ditch effort to salvage Hillary Clinton’s campaign, establishment Democrats are slinging McCarthyistic mud, joining in smearing independent journalists and blaming everything on Russia.
19. www.rt.com: Most Russians want Ukraine independent but friendly, poll shows.
20. Intellinews.com: WWII nearly over: Russia in peace talks with Japan.
21. Gazeta.ru: Russian expert interviewed on Montenegrin attempted coup.
22. Awful Avalanche: The Decline And Fall Of The KGB – Part I.
23. Awful Avalanche: The Decline And Fall Of The KGB – Part II.
24. Center on Global Interests: New Report: Russia Policy for the Next U.S. Administration.
25. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. (re New York Times)
26. New York Times: Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western Values: Vladimir Putin.
