RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-229 :: Monday, 12 December 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#229
Monday, 12 December 2016
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1. Facebook: Dmitri Trenin: 2016 elections & aftermath, incl.”Russia factor”, reveal levels of insecurity in US pol class not seen since Vietnam-Watergate-Carter. Stunning.
2. New York Times editorial: Russia’s Hand in America’s Election.
3. www.rt.com: Holiday poll shows Russians know main points of their Constitution.
4. Moscow Times: Poll: Fewer Russians Believe in Russia’s ‘Special Path’
5. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, LOSING THE PROPAGANDA WAR.
6. The Intercept: Glenn Greenwald, Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence.
7. The National Interest: Paul Pillar, Americans Need a Demon, Even if it Isn’t Russia.
8. Newsweek.com: CIA VETERANS URGE CAUTION ON LEAKS SAYING RUSSIA’S PUTIN TRIED TO GET TRUMP ELECTED.
9. Washington Post editorial: ‘Lessons learned’ about Russia. President Obama should disclose the findings of the full review of the role Moscow played in Donald Trump’s election.
10. Washington Post: Michael McFaul, Let’s get the facts right on foreign involvement in our elections. America needs a bipartisan investigation into the extent of foreign involvement in the 2016 elections.
11. www.rt.com: Ex-US envoy to Russia calls for branding RT ‘foreign agent’ over ‘involvement’ in elections.
12. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, Russia not behind Clinton leaks; conclusive evidence emerges they were work of a Washington insider. Former British ambassador Craig Murray confirms DNC and Podesta leaks were the work of a Washington insider; and says he knows identity and has met with this person. FBI meanwhile casts doubt on CIA claim DNC and Podesta leaks were the work of Russia.
13. Wall Street Journal editorial: Russian Hackers and American Hacks. The CIA that misjudged Putin for years is now sure of his motives.
14. The Real News Network: Obama Calls for Investigation into Russian Hacking, Still No Evidence Made Public. Former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley says accuracy in the report must be put above all us because the results could have grave consequences for foreign policy
15. Moscow Times: Russia’s New Economic Development Minister is the Status Quo Candidate.
17. Paul Goble: In Russia, the Refrigerator is Finally Defeating the TV but Not Having the Political Impact Many Expected.
17. Bloomberg: Russian Energy Minister Says Oil Cuts to Start in January
18. Bloomberg: Tillerson Rise Aided by Savvy Negotiating in Putin’s Russia.
19. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Over 1,000 Russian athletes involved in doping scandal – McLaren report. In a more detailed version of the report released in July, the head of the independent WADA commission has announced that the international doping scandal implicates over 1,000 Russian athletes, and has repeated accusations of state involvement.
20. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What the latest report on doping means for Russia. The publication of part two of the report by the independent WADA commission headed by Richard McLaren has been met with a predictable reaction from Russian officials, who maintain that the investigation was biased against them. The consequences of the new findings, which range from a minor scandal without serious implications to a ban on Russian athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics, have yet to be dete
21. Russia Direct: Artem Kureev, Decoding the changes in Russia’s new foreign policy concept. The latest edition of the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation only mentions Ukraine in passing and gives little or no emphasis to potential cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
22. Awful Avalanche: Do Not Awaken The Ghosts Of The Past! – Part I
23. Awful Avalanche: Do Not Awaken The Ghosts Of The Past! – Part II.
24. Awful Avalanche: Do Not Awaken The Ghosts Of The Past! – Part III.
25. http://theduran.com: Haneul Na’avi, Why Europe is obsessed with fighting ‘Russian propaganda.’ The European Union relies on propaganda against Russia to draw attention away from critical economic shortcomings.
26. The Economist: A house divided. The alarming response to Russian meddling in American democracy.
27. Russia Insider: Mark Nicholas, If Russia Did Rig the US Election It Would Only Be Payback for Yeltsin’s Second Term. Who hijacked whose democracy??
28. Paul Goble: Putin Wants to Do More than to Install Trump as US President: He Wants to Destroy the West.
29. Kennan Institute (Wilson Center): Ground Truth Briefing: What Does Russia Expect of President-elect Donald Trump?
30. www.thedailybeast.com: MICHAEL WEISS and KIMBERLY DOZIER, How Russian Hackers Can Blackmail Donald Trump-and the GOP. If it is true that the Russians hacked the Republican National Committee as well as the DNC, then their power over POTUS potentially knows few bounds.
31. Russia Reviewed: The 7(+3) deadly sins of writing Russia books.
32. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Phoebe Taplin, Classics for Christmas: 9 new translations of great Russian works. RBTH rounds up some of the year’s best Russian texts in new English translation – a seasonal reading list of friends old and new for your Christmas shopping!
