RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-96 :: Tuesday, 29 May 2018

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2018-#96 :: Tuesday, 29 May 2018
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1. New York Times: F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware.
2. ABCNews.com: VIDEO: How to reboot your router to disable Russian-linked malware.
3. Russia Beyond: What languages does Putin speak? (VIDEOS) [Text with rbth.com/business/328402-what-languages-does-putin-speak]
4. TASS: Putin to hold Q&A marathon on June 7.
5. TASS: Putin vows to abide by two-term limit on consecutive presidential tenures.
6. Carnegie Moscow Center: Kirill Rogov, What Russia’s New Government Tells Us About Succession After Putin. Now in his fourth presidential term, Vladimir Putin faces a succession problem: the constitution prevents him from running again in 2024. With few simple transition options available, Putin may choose a compromise: to hand some presidential powers to the prime minister, increase the ruling party’s role, and introduce a second center of power in the executive branch.
7. CNBC.com: Putin might look invincible but the big challenge is keeping Russians happy.
8. Bear Market Brief: Putin calls for quick work at first meeting with new gov’t.
9. www.rt.com: High reserves & low debt make Russian economy strong in hard times – IMF. [Text with photos https://www.rt.com/news/427715-spief-sanctions-forum-putin-petersburg/]
10. TASS: World Bank expects accelerated growth of Russian economy based on macroeconomic foundation.
11. www.rt.com: ‘We’ll protect Europe’ & other quotes from Putin’s SPIEF forum.
12. Kremlin.ru: Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the 22nd St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
13. Financial Times: Putin’s St Petersburg forum offers a little respite from western chill. Some big names of politics reach out to Russia and try to patch links.
14. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Sanctions forgotten in St. Petersburg as Putin attracts global big-hitters to his hometown.
15. Washington Post: Despite sanctions, some Americans still want to do business in Russia.
16. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Putin’s Big Economic Conference Is a Very Big Deal This Year. [russia-insider.com/en/putins-big-economic-conference-very-big-deal-year/ri23591]
17. TASS: Media: SPIEF gives rise to anti-sanctions coalition backing Russia.
18. Sputnik: Business Ombudsman: Russia Should Prepare to Pull Assets From US Reserves.
19. Russiafeed.com: Paul Goncharoff, Russia’s retail market set to EXPLODE with increased tourism. Hard times in Russia do teach happy economic lessons in sometimes-painful ways.
20. Oilprice.com: Russia Just Won Big In The European Gas War.
21. Sputnik: Russia, China Moving Forward to Form Strategic Energy Alliance.
22. Valdai Discussion Club: Yuri Rubinsky, FROM PARIS TO ST. PETERSBURG: RESULTS OF PUTIN-MACRON TALKS.
23. Paul Goble: Kudrin isn’t Quite the Independent-Minded Liberal Many Think, Pavlova Says.
24. Interfax: Russian govt proposes barring foreign-agent NGOs from anti-corruption examinations – bill.
25. Russia Beyond: 10 restrictions Russia is imposing during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
26. Moscow Times: Maxim Buyev, What the World Cup Could Do for Russia’s Self-Esteem. Is Russia following in Mexico’s footsteps?
27. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexei Sarabyev, RUSSIA AND SYRIA COMPARE NOTES IN SOCHI.
28. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Russians on Trump. (interview with Laurence Bogoslaw, editor of “Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary”)
29. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, DIRTY MONEY, DIRTY POLITICS. (re UK) [Text with links: irrussianality.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/dirty-money-dirty-politics/]
30. TASS: Izvestia: Current US-Russia relations in deep crisis, but not cold war
31. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Uncle Sam Having a Harder Time Recruiting Russians. [Text with links: unz.com/akarlin/uncle-sam-having-a-harder-time-recruiting-russians/]
32. National Public Radio (NPR): In Russia, Scant Traces And Negative Memories Of A Century-Old U.S. Intervention.
33. The Blog Mire: Rob Slane, Draft Version of Scotland Yard’s Statement on Behalf of Sergei Skripal. [theblogmire.com/draft-version-of-scotland-yards-statement-on-behalf-of-sergei-skripal/]
34. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, YULIA SKRIPAL’S POSTSCRIPT – WHAT DID SHE WRITE, AND WHAT DIDN’T SHE SAY IN THE BRITISH GARDEN EVENT, PLUS THE NEUROLOGY EVIDENCE. [johnhelmer.net/yulia-skripals-postscript-what-did-she-write-and-what-didnt-she-say-in-the-london-garden-event-plus-the-neurology-evidence/]
36. Washington Post editorial: A step closer to the true story of the plane shot down over Ukraine.
37. Sputnik: Russian MoD: Missiles Shown By MH17 Investigators Were Decommissioned After 2011.
38. Interfax-Ukraine: Groysman: How many more deaths needed to make the world understand that Russia is wild beast.
39. The Verge: Twitter is treating Bulgarians tweeting in Cyrillic like Russian bots. People are having their accounts suspended and tweets hidden for the crime of using a different alphabet. [theverge.com/2018/5/22/17380630/twitter-moderation-cyrillic-russian-bots]
40. Spectator USA: Roger Kimball, For your eyes only: A short history of Democrat-spy collusion. How highly placed members of one administration mobilised the intelligence services to undermine their successors. [usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/for-your-eyes-only-a-short-history-of-democrat-spy-collusion/]
41. Washington Post: Kathleen Parker, Everybody wants respect. Especially Vladimir Putin.
42. www.rt.com: Sex not in the top 10 most pleasurable things for Russians.

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