RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-234 :: Wednesday, 21 December 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#234
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
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1. www.rt.com: Putin moves major press conference to attend funeral of slain diplomat Karlov.
2. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, HYBRIS AND THE POLITICS OF CONDEMNATION.
3. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Putin’s progress: What to expect from Russia’s leader in 2017. While few doubt that the Russian president will run for a fourth term in 2018, many experts say it will be his last, and expect a more cautious approach to lay the ground for a political transition.
4. www.foreignpolicy.com: Russia Missing from Trump’s Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo. Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States.
5. The National Interest: Doug Bandow, John McCain Is Wrong About the Russia Hack.
6. TASS: Russia’s energy minister doubts oil price will get back to 2014 level.
7. TASS: Ex-finance minister calls for more privatization in fuel and energy sphere. (Kudrin)
8. Russia Insider: Paul Goncharoff, With Russia’s Market, Rating Agencies Don’t Tell the Whole Story. Could Russia be the financial magnet of 2017?
9. Russia Direct: Alexander Sotnichenko, The killing of Russia’s ambassador in Turkey: A stab in the back. Just when it looked like Russia and Turkey were moving closer together, the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey threatens to divide them.
10. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Russian experts comment on murder of envoy to Turkey.
11. The Independent (UK): Patrick Cockburn, The assassination of the Russian ambassador is the latest sign Turkey is becoming weaker and more unstable
12. BBC Monitoring: Russian press focuses on progress of Syria talks in Moscow.
13. Russia Beyond the Headlines: What does UN resolution on Aleppo mean for Russia-West relations? Russian observers say that the UN resolution does not indicate who will guarantee security for the humanitarian operation in Syria’s second largest city and therefore the rebels will use this situation to organize attacks in Aleppo.
14. The Hill Times (Canada): Gwynne Dyer, Aleppo and the media. We need to understand why the Western media peddled such a distorted picture of what was going on.
15. Washington Post: Adam Taylor, Why do so many people miss the Soviet Union?
16. AP: In NYC’s Russian Enclaves, a Big ‘Nyet’ to Hacking Talk.
17. TASS: Moscow to take adequate measures over US expansion of anti-Russian sanctions.
18. Wall Street Journal: U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Russian Restaurateur With Ties to Putin.
19. New York Times: Ivan Krastev, The Cold War Isn’t Back. So Don’t Think Like It Is.
20. Reuters: U.S. government loses to Russia’s disinformation campaign: advisers.
21. Consortiumnews.com: Graham Fuller, Behind the Russia-Hack Allegations. Though no public evidence has yet been provided, it’s now conventional wisdom that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, a dangerous moment in U.S.-Russia relations.
2. Lobelog Foreign Policy: Robert Hunter, Rex Tillerson and the Russian Problem.
23. Washington Post: Anne Applebaum, I was a victim of a Russian smear campaign. I understand the power of fake news.
