RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-65 :: Monday, 4 April 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#65
Monday, 4 April 2016

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UKRAINE

1. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP): UKRAINE: THE PRESIDENT’S OFFSHORE TAX PLAN.
2. Kyiv Post: Protester who tore up Poroshenko’s photo gets 4.5 years in jail.

PRELUDE

3. Washington Post: Putin associates had $2 billion in offshore accounts, report says.
4. Financial Times: “None of the Mossack Fonseca files mention Mr Putin by name, or implicate him or his associates in any financial wrongdoing.”
5. Irrussianality: Paul Robsinon, SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PUTIN CORRUPTION STORY. (with comments)
6. http://off-guardian.org: Panama Papers cause Guardian to collapse into self-parody.
7. AP: The Latest: Russian media keep mum on offshore scandal.
8. TASS: Kremlin says expected more of information attacks against Putin, his friends.

“PUTIN’S RUSSIA”

9. www.foreignpolicy.com: Julia Ioffe, Pussy for Putin…and Now, Wendi Deng. Is Vladimir Putin really getting “serious” with Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife?
10. www.thedailybeast.com: Is Vladimir Putin, Now Reportedly Romancing Wendi Deng, a Secret Lothario?
11. RFE/RL: ‘Nothing To See Here’: Russia Shrugs At Latest Allegations Against Putin.
12. Vice.com: Alec Luhn, A Putin-Loving Alien Cult Wants to Build Its ‘Extraterrestrial Embassy’ in Russia.
13. New York Daily News: EXCLUSIVE: Vladimir Putin prepares for world domination in Valiant Comics series.
14. Center for European Policy Analysis: Edward Lucas, What Plato can tell us about Putin.
15. New York Times: Mikhail Lesin’s Strange Death in U.S. Follows a Fall From Russia’s Elite.
16. New York Times: Maxim Trudolyubov, Three Rules of Kremlin Power.
17. New York Times: Masha Gessen, The Case of the Woman With the Severed Child’s Head.
18. Newsweek.com: Ben Nimmo, PUTIN’S PARANOIA IS DRIVING HIS FOREIGN ADVENTURES.
19. The New Yorker: David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, about the Putin regime and Russia’s future. (podcast)
20. The New Yorker: Masha Gessen, Nadiya Savchenko Gives Russia the Finger.
21. The National Interest: William Courtney and John Herbst, How Russia Undermines Nuclear Security. Moscow’s saber rattling challenges Washington’s security guarantees.
22. www.foreignpolicy.com: James Miller, Putin’s Attack Helicopters and Mercenaries Are Winning the War for Assad.
23. Washington Post: Tension is the diplomats’ curse, which Russians cure by writing verse.
24. Russia Without BS: Jim Kovpak, “Information attacks”
25. Politico: James Kirchick, The Norwegian TV series that’s enraged the Kremlin. And why you should watch it.
26. www.thedailybeast.com: Michael Weiss, Putin’s Panama Papers Caper. Years of rumors about the Russian ruler’s incredible fortune moved a step closer to fact over the weekend with a leak that far eclipses WikiLeaks’ cables or Snowden’s revelations.
27. Euromaidanpress.com: Kseniya Kirillova, Russia’s low-tech trolls in high-power western information space.
28. Politico.com: Evelyn Farkas, Trump and Putin: Two Liars Separated at Birth? No wonder they seem to like each other; they are akin in their abuse of the truth.
29. Atlantic Council: Distract, Deceive, Destroy: Putin at War in Syria. (April 5 event)

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