RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-76 :: Thursday, 21 April 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#76
Thursday, 21 April 2016

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1. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, On My Mind.
2. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, The Daily Vertical: The Kremlin’s Spin, NATO’s Reality.
3. European Council on Foreign Relations: Nikolay Petrov, Putin’s downfall: The coming crisis of the Russian regime.The current trajectory of the Russian regime is unstable and without dramatic change it will crumble within the next year, according to a leading Russia specialist.
4. Newsweek.com: PUTIN IS A ‘SMART BUT TRULY EVIL MAN,’ SAYS MADELEINE ALBRIGHT.
5. Euromaidanpress.com: Madeleine Albright and Russia’s “useful idiots”
6. Moscow Times: Kirill Rogov, Putin’s Economist: Why Kudrin Tapped to Write New Reforms Plan.
7. Moscow Times: Sam Greene, The Masks Come Off but Russian Officials Have Nothing Left to Say.
8. Vedomosti: Russians see parliament as having “symbolic” significance – pollster chief. (Aleksey Levinson)
9. Moscow Times: More Than Half of Russians Want New Soviet State – Poll.
10. Paul Goble: Russians’ Approach to Politics Inconsistent and Paradoxical, Sociologist Says.
11. Politkom.ru: Most Russians not interested in getting true picture of world – analysis.
12. www.opendemocracy.net: Badma Byurchiev, Russia’s regions: federalism and its discontents. Creating the appearance of stability is the Russian political elite’s primary goal. Yet colonial-like rule over the country’s regions, combined with a lack of civic activity, harms the Kremlin’s legitimacy on the ground.
13. The New York Review of Books: Timothy Snyder, Trump’s Putin Fantasy.
14. Deutsche Welle: How Nigerian girls are forced into prostitution in Russia.
15. The Guardian (UK): Russia’s ‘cold turkey’ approach highlights global divide over drug treatment at UN. Russian representative suggests methadone and heroin are the ‘same narcotic drug’ as outside experts condemn country’s take on treatment: ‘They’re the world leader in denying the science’
16. RFE/RL: Barred From Hundreds Of Occupations In Russia, A Few Women Fight Back.
17. Time.com: Why a Win in a Dutch Court Is Making Vladimir Putin So Happy. A court in the Hague has quashed a $50 billion judgment against the Russian state. But President Putin’s enemies from the Yukos affair aren’t giving up anytime soon.
18. www.foreignaffairs.com: Gregory Feifer, Incorruptible Putin. Why the Panama Allegations Won’t Stick.
19. Kennan Institute: Maxim Trudolyubov, Hard Work vs. Magic.
20. www.foreigpolicy.com: SitRep: Exclusive: Pentagon Says Russia Can Fight in Ukraine and Syria Another Two Years.
21. New York Times: Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise.
22. Wall Street Journal: Joshua Yaffa, Russia’s Wily Men and Women. Russians hold views that seem impossible to reconcile. Students at a reputable school offer a curious mix of heroes: Stalin and Steve Jobs. (re PUTIN COUNTRY by Anne Garrels)
23. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Interview with Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
24. The American Interest: Lilia Shevtsova, HOW THE WEST MISJUDGED RUSSIA PART 13. The Kremlin’s Triad as the Means of Survival. The West needs to understand that the Russian System is willing to fight for its survival, and that this fight could take many different forms.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: At a crossroads: The anxieties of a globalized world. In an RBTH exclusive, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev writes about the international crisis of leadership and the challenges facing politicians around the world in a time of moral uncertainty and lack of unity and vision for the future.
26. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, LEGAL BLOWBACK.
27. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Revival of diplomacy? Ukraine, Russia make progress on prisoner swap.
28. Boston Globe: Lev Golinkin, Pope Francis, ask more for Ukraine.
29. Sputnik: Kremlin: Russia to Be Happy If Ukraine’s Association With EU Yields Success.
30. https://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, The 20 April 2014 Easter Attack: Again on Right Sector and the Making of the Ukrainian Civil War.

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