RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#77 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Friday PM, April 17, 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#77 :: Friday PM 17 April 2015
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1. Kremlin.ru: Direct line with Vladimir Putin (transcript continued).
2. Business New Europe: Putin says Russia has weathered sanctions storm.
3. TASS: Putin demonstrates constructive mood over both foreign, home policy matters – analysts.
4. TASS: Experts back up Putin’s appeal to top managers to make incomes public.
5. Salon.com: Patrick Smith, The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say”: Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you. There’s an alternative story of Russian relations we’re not hearing. Historian Stephen Cohen tells it here.
6. Russia Insider: Gilbert Doctorow, Revisiting the Prophetic Memoir of Clinton’s Top Russia Adviser. A fresh look at Strobe Talbott’s The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy.
7. Russia Direct: James Carden, Minsk II is hanging by a thread. Clearly neither side is in any mood to back down and so we should expect a major springtime offensive in the Donbas sooner rather than later.
8. Antiwar.com: Justin Raymond, The Murderers of Kiev. Ukraine’s gangster regime shows its true colors.
9. Russia Direct: History of Ukraine Told by Assassinated Ukrainian Writer Oles Buzina. Is this the Ukrainian democracy the West wants to see?
10. Amnesty International: Ukraine’s spate of suspicious deaths must be followed by credible investigations.
11. www.rt.com: Personal details of murdered journalist & ex-MP found posted on Ukrainian ‘enemies of state’ database.
12. http://gordonhahn.com: Gordon Hahn, The Maidan Regime’s Growing Democracy Deficit.
13. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Curbing the kleptocrats: Kiev chips away at its pervasive corruption. ‘We have a total kleptocratic state,’ says Yegor Sobolev, Ukraine’s lead anti-graft legislator. But he is cheerfully confident that ‘we will win.’
14. Antiwar.com: Patrick Buchanan, A US-Russia War Over Ukraine?
15. Russia Direct: Why Russia’s political elites need to play a more subtle game. RD Interview: Prominent Russian political consultant Evgeny Minchenko sheds light on the thinking of the Kremlin’s inner circles, the problems of Russian lobbyists in the U.S., the country’s 2016 parliamentary elections, and the impact of the current U.S. presidential campaign on Russia policy.
16. Deutsche Welle: Russia’s pivot to Asia – A Sino-Russian Entente? The rupture between Russia and the West stemming from the Ukraine crisis has led Moscow to expand ties with Asia, especially China. Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, talks to DW about the implications.
17. Paul Goble: ‘Putin isn’t an Imperialist; He’s a Nazi,’ Portnikov Says.
18. Three prominent Washington Russia experts on Johnson’s Russia List.
19. Wall Street Journal: Rep. Ed Royce, Countering Putin’s Information Weapons of War. Kremlin propaganda is far outstripping our ability to get the truth out. The U.S. needs a new approach.
20. Sputnik: WikiLeaks Release: US Recruits Hollywood to Boost ‘Anti-Russian Messaging’
21. House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Peter Pomeranzev, Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information.
22. www.khodorkovsky.com: Mikhail Khodorkovsky RUSSIA: BACK TO THE FUTURE.
23. The Vineyard of the Saker: Ukraine Analysis by the Saker: a “Croatian” attack scenario?