RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-239 :: Thursday, 29 December 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#239
Thursday, 29 December 2016
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1. www.rt.com: Agreement reached on ceasefire in Syria & readiness to start peace talks – Putin.
2. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
3. New York Times: Syrian Government Announces Truce Backed by Russia and Turkey.
4. Bloomberg: Obama Options on Russian Hacks Range From Covert to Military.
5. Moscow Times: Presidential Adviser Says Russia Could Be Cut Off From Internet.
6. Moscow Times: Russian Banking System Safe From Cyber-Threats — Central Bank Head.
7. The Intercept: TOP SECRET SNOWDEN DOCUMENT REVEALS WHAT THE NSA KNEW ABOUT PREVIOUS RUSSIAN HACKING.
8. Recode: A journalist is suing U.S. spy agencies for more details on Russia’s hacking of the U.S. election. The CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Orffice of the Director of National Intelligence have failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request.
9. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Escalating the Risky Fight with Russia. To box in President-elect Trump, the neocons and liberal hawks are pushing for “crippling sanctions” against Russia that they see as crucial to their dangerous “regime change” agenda in Moscow.
10. Russia Direct: Putin’s visit to Japan, Ankara assassination and 2016 in review. Think tank review: In December Russian experts discussed Vladimir Putin’s trip to Japan, the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey and the key results of the year.
11. www.rt.com: Putin’s approval rating hits 2016 high.
12. Vedomosti: Russian pollster explains Putin’s popularity amid crisis. (Alexei Levinson)
13. TASS: Central Bank сhief assures Russian banking system can resist cyber threats.
14. Moscow Times: Putin Bans Officials From Owning Foreign Assets Via Third Parties.
15. TASS: Russia’s GDP growth in 2017 may be two times above formal outlook.
16. www.rt.com: Ruble hits 17-mth high to Russians’ delight & Kremlin’s chagrin.
17. Wall Street Journal: Chris Miller, Why Putin’s Economy Survives. Conservative fiscal and monetary policies, plus an autocrat’s ability to impose austerity measures, keep Russia afloat where the Soviet Union sank.
18. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant: Brighter prospects lure international investors back to Russian market.
19. TASS: RUSADA blasts New York Times for ‘distorting’ acting chief’s doping remarks.
20. http://theduran.com: Alexander Mercouris, New York Times completely wrong on Russia admitting doping conspiracy. New York Times article alleging Russian sports officials have admitted to “institutional conspiracy” to undertake doping is according to TASS based on distorted comments and is flatly contradicted by the public comments of Russian President Putin made just four days before.
21. BBC Monitoring: Russian press looks at doping scandal fallout.
22. BBC Monitoring: Talk show looks at Russia’s role in global transformations.
23. www.polygraph.info: Kremlin Says No ‘Pro-Putin’ Coalition In Europe.
24. Financial Times: Lilia Shevtsova, Efforts to contain Russia are failing. Here is an opponent who wields the west’s liberal slogans against it
25. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitry Trenin, Ideology Should Not Guide Foreign Policy
26. The National Interest: Robert Merry, Stop Poking the Bear. Give diplomacy a chance. Stop provoking Moscow.
27. Moscow Times: Angus Roxburgh, Why the West’s Betrayal of Democratic Russia Brought Us Putin. The West’s inability to accept Russia on equal terms after 1991 made the emergence of a nationalistic strongman inevitable.
28. Moscow Times: Sir Roderic Lyne, Russia and the West: Enemies Are Not Forever . With so few grounds for optimism in relations, we need a wider perspective.
29. Paul Goble: Putin’s Authoritarianism Simply a Response to Archaic Localism of 1990s, Russian Analyst Says.
30. Washington Post: Yuval Weber, What does Putin really want? Trump’s presidency will show us.
31. Russia Direct: Top 5 events in US-Russia relations in 2016 that intensified confrontation. Russia Direct came up with top 5 events in U.S.-Russia relations which highlighted increasing confrontation between the countries in 2016.
32. The Unz Report: Anatoly Karlin, Open Thread: The Moskvabad Missive.
33. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Exiled Russian Oligarch Gives His Take On Trump-Putin 2017.
34. www.khodorkovsky.com: How “Russian hackers” hacked into your brain. What do we, as Russians, think about our infamous “Russian hackers”?
35. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, Putin’s War At Home.
36. TASS: Ukrainian MP says Savchenko expelled from Rada committee for improper political behavior.
