RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-82 :: Thursday, 5 May 2016
Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#82
Thursday, 5 May 2016
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TODAY
1. The National Interest: Kazushige Kobayashi, Why the West is Not Ready for a Democratic Russia.
2. www.rt.com: Putin continues to ride high in popularity polls, latest research shows.
3. Russia Direct: Divide in the Russian opposition, the return of Alexey Kudrin, and a new controversy in Crimea. Media Roundup: Russia’s journalists covered the comeback of former finance minister Alexey Kudrin and the split within the Russian opposition ahead of the 2016 parliamentary elections.
4. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Kudrin and Poroshenko will fail because corruption is the system in Russia, Ukraine.
5. www.foreignpolicy.com: Josh Cohen, The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past. Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history – stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
6. Intellinews.com: Chris Weafer, Russia’s ‘localisation’ phase of economic development.
7. Russia Direct: Pavel Koshkin, Conventional arms race draws the world closer to state of brinkmanship. With NATO’s military buildup near Russian borders and signs of instability from the Middle East to East Asia, it’s no longer inconceivable that the great powers could find themselves involved in a conventional war.
8. www.rt.com: ‘Resurgent Russia’: New hardline NATO Europe commander raises hackles in Moscow.
9. TASS: NATO prefers to deal with Putin rather than his circle – Breedlove.
10. Vox.com: Mark Galeotti, The West needs to stop panicking about Russia’s “hybrid” warfare.
11. http://buchanan.org: Patrick Buchanan, Why Russia Resents Us.
12. Izvestia: Russian pundit sees USA repeating “Reagan-era Afghanistan mistakes” in Syria. (Dmitriy Yevstafyev)
13. Washington Post: Glenn Kessler, No, Putin did not call Donald Trump ‘a genius’
14. Paul Goble: Lower-Level State Employees Nucleus of Coming Social Revolt in Russia, Kagarlitsky Says.
15. Moscow Times: In the Flesh: Russian Scientists Work to Preserve Lenin’s Corpse.
16. Reuters: Josh Cohen, Why Ukraine’s NATO membership is not in America’s interests.
17. Atlantic Council: Orysia Lutsevych, The Long Arm of Russian “Soft” Power.
