RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-49 :: Friday, 11 March 2016
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#49
Friday, 11 March 2016
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1. The New Yorker: Nadiya Savchenko Gives Russia the Finger.
2. Washington Post editorial: Russia’s latest show trial.
3. Wall Street Journal editorial: Putin’s Ukrainian Hostage.
4. Atlantic Council: What Nadiya Savchenko’s Example Can Teach the West.
5. Washington Post: New twist in D.C. death of a former Putin aide fuels Moscow conspiracy theories.
6. Newsweek.com: EU REFERENDUM: WHY PUTIN MIGHT BACK BREXIT.
7. RFE/RL: The Daily Vertical: The Masters Of Nothing.
8. www.opendemocracy.net: Moscow’s authoritarian future. Recent moves against Moscow’s street traders don’t only violate Russia’s Constitution and hurt the economy. They also consolidate the regime’s power.
9. Kennan Institute: Two Faces of Russia’s Foreign Policy.
10. Moscow Times: Legitimized Elections: The Kremlin Plays a New Game.
11. International Business Times: Ivanovo Blues: Economic Downturn in Russia’s Regions Fuels Decline, Sporadic Protests.
12. Transitions Online: Russia Recruits Combat Dolphins.
13. Intersection: No Putin – Collapse of the regime? The Putin regime will collapse when the political demand for change from both society and the elites outweighs the system’s inclination for self-preservation.
14. www.thedailybeast.com: The American Corporations Advertising With a Racist Russian TV Channel. Fortune 500 companies are selling their products on pro-Kremlin channels that traffic in black stereotypes and anti-Americanism.
15. Daily Telegraph (UK): Russia ‘trying to destabilise’ Germany by stoking unrest over migrants, warn spy chiefs.
16. RFE/RL: Obama: Ukraine ‘Vulnerable’ To Russian ‘Military Domination’ No Matter What U.S. Does.
17. Institute of Modern Russia: Russia’s Government Doesn’t See the Economic Downslide As a Threat.
18. Deutsche Welle: Keeping Russians in the dark. With 450 seats in Russia’s lower house up for grabs in September’s election, deputies are getting restless and looking for more ways they can stifle press freedoms.
19. New York Times: Pro-Democracy Nonprofit Is Banned in Russia.
20. Wall Street Journal: The Arctic Front in the Battle to Contain Russia.
21. The American Interest: HOW THE WEST MISJUDGED RUSSIA PART 8. Looking for Explanations-or Justification? Are there really any justifications for the annexation of Crimea and armed intervention in Ukraine?
22. Der Spiegel: Daughters of the Opposition. A Trio of Women Challenging Putin and the Kremlin.
23. http://readrussia.com: Dictatorship 2.0.
24. Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor: Russia Is Giving up on Its Tragedies-and on Itself.
25. Forbes.com: The Patriarch, The Pope And An Old Play From Russia’s Geopolitical Playbook.
26. The Globe and Mail (Canada): The world is Vladimir Putin’s stage, but cracks appear on the Russian President’s homefront.
27. North Atlantic Treaty Organization: A Strong NATO for a New Strategic Reality. Keynote address by NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow at the Foundation Institute for Strategic Studies, Krakow (Annual Conference: ‘NATO as an Active Guardian – Expectations Before the Warsaw NATO Summit’)
28. The New Yorker: Marina’s Will. (Litvinenko)
