RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-60 :: Monday, 28 March 2016
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#60
Monday, 28 March 2016
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1. Russia Insider: Mark Nicholas, Is Russia Assassinating Pro-Russian Ukrainians to Make Ukraine Look Bad? An Ukrainian official in charge of investigating the latest political assassination thinks so.
2. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Yes Russia Has Demographic Problems, No They’re Not Worse Than Italy’s.
3. The Independent (UK): Robert Fisk, Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis? In the end, it was the Syrian army – and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians – who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra.
4. Fort Russ: McFaul Thanks Russia for Liberating Palmyra.
5. Russia Observer: Patrick Armstrong, RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 24 March 2016.
6. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Are Russia And The U.S. Starting To See Eye-To-Eye?
7. TASS: Russian ex-human rights commissioner elected chief of Central Election Commission. (Ella Pamfilova)
8. Gazeta.ru: Russian political sources discuss opposition parties’ election agreement talks.
9. Sputnik: Russia Not to Raise Taxes Until 2018 Despite Such Calls.
10. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, The Worst Might Be Over For Russia’s Labor Market.
11. Awara: Jon Hellevig, Share of oil and gas in Russia’s tax revenue dropped to 21%, but the threatened devastation failed to materialize.
12. www.rt.com: Dmitry Peskov, ‘Russia at war with Anglo-Saxon media’ – Putin spokesman.
13. TASS: Russian Security Council chief urges new approaches to national security.
14. Interfax: Russian air operation Syria not aimed at backing al-Assad – Russian Foreign Ministry
15. Sputnik: Reaping Fruits of Victory: First Results of Russia’s Air Campaign in Syria.
16. http://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, Russia’s Syria Intervention and Withdrawal: New Details.
17. The National Interest: Alexander Kirss, Russia’s Artful Exit from Syria. Moscow entered and exited the conflict all within five months.
18. The Unz Review: Israel Shamir, Russia Bids Farewell.
19. The Spectator (UK): Taki, Putin has shown the West up as a paper tiger. Uncle Vlad did a Kutuzov in Syria.
20. Nikkei Asian Review: Thomas Graham, How Russia could help US and Japan in Asia.
21. The Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, Having Failed to Achieve Any of Its Goals in Crimea, the West Resorts to Lying.
22. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Kerry Balks at Supplying MH-17 Data.
23. Eurasianet.org: Timo Vogt, Ukraine: The Boom Stick Brotherhood.
24. https://dninews.com: Ukrainian media: AFU command significantly underestimates number of losses in Donbass.
25. Russia Insider: Mark Nicholas, Ukraine’s American Finance Minister Now Demands PM Yatsenyuk’s Job or Else. Jaresko has now indicated she wants to be named prime minister or she will likely resign bringing upon Ukraine the displeasure of the IMF.
26. Kyiv Post: Egor Firsov, ‘Corruption penetrates absolutely everything’ as Poroshenko repeats Yanukovych’s downfall.
27. www.rt.com: Ukraine should act like Hitler and Roosevelt & go nuclear like Israel – Radical Party leader. (Oleg Lyashko)
28. Kyiv Post: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, ‘We must impose a moratorium on the struggles between political allies’
29. The Guardian (UK): Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media. Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda.
