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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2018-#171
Wednesday, 19 September 2018

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1. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with elected regional governors.
2. www.rt.com: Russian elections body recommends annulment of Far East vote over violations.
3. Interfax: Russia’s CEC wishes to investigate violations regardless of ranks of those who organized Primorye electoral fraud.
4. Interfax: Pamfilova makes decisions without anyone’s instructions, didn’t bother Putin on situation with election in Primorye.
5. TASS: Kremlin on Far East’s gubernatorial race: legitimacy is priority for Putin.
6. TASS: Retailers in central Moscow will take part in pilot project testing tax free system.
7. Moscow Times: Apurva Sanghi and Shahid Yusuf, Russia’s Uphill Struggle With Innovation . There are clear steps the country can take to become more competitive.
8. Moscow Times: Elizabeth Buchanan, Russia’s New Commanding Role in the Arctic . A new shipping corridor between Asia and Europe promises to strengthen Russia’s control over the Arctic.
9. Oilprice.com: The U.S. Calls On Russia To Cap Soaring Oil Prices.
10. http://thesaker.is: The US Is Doing Everything to Make The Russian Elite Return Money to Their Motherland, by Ruslan Ostashko.
11. CBSNews.com: Former Bush adviser has three steps to rebuild U.S.-Russia relationship. [Stephen Hadley]
12. The Times (UK): US air force chiefs want fleet strength to return to Cold War levels in preparation for conflict with China or Russia.
13. TASS: Pentagon identifies Russia, China as threats to cybersecurity – media.
14. Valdai Discussion Club: Mary Dejevsky, WHERE IS THE WEST AS ENDGAME IN SYRIA LOOMS?
15. CNN.com: Nic Robertson, Only a fool takes Vladimir Putin at his word in Syria (excerpt)
16. Facebook: Robert Bridge, Putin.
17. TASS: Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Mop-up operation in Syria’s Idlib to start in November.
18. Interfax: Russian-Israeli military hotline must be improved – expert.
19. TASS: Kremlin: Putin’s opinion of Mediterranean plane crash relies on Defense Ministry’s data.
20. TASS: Media: Russia faults Israel over military jet’s downing in Syria, vows response.
21. The National Interest: Dave Majumdar, Who Really Shot Down Russia’s Plane? These are the complicated circumstances surrounding the incident and what they mean for Russia and Syria.
22. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, PUTIN’S FORFEIT – FROM STRATEGIC MISTAKE TO STRATEGIC DEFEAT IN 24 HOURS.
23. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Devyatkov, Moldova and Transnistria: the Spectre of Federalization.
24. Intellinews.com: Hungarian PM reaches agreement on gas deliveries from Russia to 2020.
25. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Western leaders descend on Macedonian ‘battleground’ as Moscow pulls its punches.
26. Kyiv Post: Tefft returns to Kyiv, reflects on stressful Moscow post, Putin’s mistakes and West’s challenge.
27. Russia Observer: Patrick Armstrong, RUSSIAN MH-17 BRIEFING. (with comments on Facebook)
28. Hromadske (Kyiv): Ukraine Has Lively And Competitive Democracy – McFaul.
29. The Independent (UK): Journalism under threat and corruption prevails in Ukraine, despite IMF demands. In Kiev, Kim Sengupta finds corruption claims are muddying the country’s journey to democracy.
30. New York Times: Andrew Higgins, Tragedy? Farce? Confusion? The Method Behind That Russian Poisoning Interview. (excerpt)
31. The Mirror (UK): Britain may have MISSED real Novichok ‘assassins’ with CCTV suspects acting as ‘watchers’, ex-spy claims. The retired agent has doubted that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Bochirov are plausible as killers after they were spotted numerous times on CCTV.
32. Consortiumnews.com: Ray McGovern, Justice Dept Likely to Slow-Walk Declassification. President Trump has ordered Russia-gate data to be declassified but will likely be stonewalled, raising questions about whether Trump is his own man.
33. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Real Russian Spies Don’t Live Up to ‘The Americans.’ The implausible genius of the agents in the Emmy-winning TV drama misleads actual Americans about the nature of the Kremlin threat.

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