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• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia Losing Its Grip on Central Asia? What China’s Growing Regional Ambitions Mean for Moscow” – Foreign Affairs/ Temur Umarov, Alexander Gabuev
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. actively considering giving cluster munitions to Ukraine” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The humbling of Vladimir Putin: The Wagner mutiny exposes the Russian tyrant’s growing weakness. But don’t count him out yet” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “21 Miles of Obstacles: The Ukrainian counteroffensive faces an enemy nearly as daunting as the Russians: the terrain” – New York Times
• Mutiny in Russia: What Happened, What’s Next and What To Be Thankful For
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Yesterday’s Putin Is Gone” – New York Times/ Andrei Kolesnikov
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Prigozhin went free. What about these Russians?” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “West explores nuclear risks from unstable Putin regime” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine says ‘main event’ in counteroffensive still to come” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “After the rebellion, how well will Putin carry on his rule?”  – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• Ukrainians Attempting To Enter Russia Face Days-Long Wait On Border
• Émigré Politicians, Russian and Non-Russian, Mired in Wishful Thinking, Vintsevskaya Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future; Caution should be our guiding principle” – The Nation/ Katrina vanden Heuvel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Wagner ‘shot down seven Russian aircraft and killed 13 airmen’ during coup attempt” – The Telegraph (UK)
• Prigozhin has captivated the West – but pundits have no idea what is going on
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Just How Much Trouble Is Vladimir Putin In?” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Beginning of the End for Putin? Prigozhin’s Rebellion Ended Quickly, but It Spells Trouble for the Kremlin” – Foreign Affairs/ Liana Fix, Michael Kimmage
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Gripped by Uncertainty After Mutiny, Russians Note Absence of Kremlin Leaders” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin looked into the abyss Saturday — and blinked” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Inside Zelensky’s Plan to Beat Putin’s Propaganda in Russian-Occupied Ukraine” – Time
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Prigozhin’s Mutiny Is the Beginning of Putin’s End” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “…. Prigozhin’s ‘revolt,’ of course, can go down as a clear illustration of the perils of permitting private armies to exist. …” – Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Prigozhin’s armed insurrection/mutiny/rebellion” – Michael Kofman
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. to Delay New Sanctions on Wagner for Fear of Siding With Putin” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Wagner’s Aborted Mutiny Leaves No Winners in Russia; The authority of the Russian state has sustained lasting damage, inviting future challenges” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Short-Lived Mutiny in Russia Sheds Light on Putin’s Hold on Power” – New York Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Prigozhin’s Insurrection Creates Headaches for Russia-China Alliance, Experts Say” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Early stages of Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘not meeting expectations,’ Western officials tell CNN”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A critical look at Russian studies in the U.S.” – Meduza
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The great dilemma: NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join. America is not keen for the country to enter the alliance — yet” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Offensive Slows Down, Zelensky Says, as Kyiv Rethinks Approach” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia gas flows through Ukraine could stop next year, Kyiv says” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “An unspooked spook; Ukraine’s spymaster has got under the Kremlin’s skin” – The Economist/ Kyrylo Budanov
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Top U.S. official to meet Ukraine war sceptics from developing nations” – Financial Times
• Russia Analytical Report, June 12-20, 2023 – 4 Ideas to Explore
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “China And Russia’s Ice-Breaking Ambitions In The Arctic” – ZeroHedge/OilPrice.com
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Digging Up Old Graves to Make Room for Newly Fallen Soldiers” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘The Russians are becoming ingenious’: Ukrainian officers see invaders making progress” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Treacherous Path to a Better Russia; Ukraine’s Future and Putin’s Fate” – Foreign Affairs/ Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Has No Good News for Ukraine” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Showcase Economic Forum Is Now a Charade” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Rush to Arm Ukraine, Weapons Are Bought but Not Delivered, or Too Broken to Use” – New York Times
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia will lose the war if Ukraine’s counteroffensive succeeds, Zelenskyy tells NBC News” – NBC
• Russia in Review, June 9-16, 2023 – 7 Things to Know
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kissinger Says Putin Survival ‘Improbable’ If Ukraine Prevails” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Mines Everywhere’: Ukraine’s Offensive Is Proving a Hard Slog” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Offensive Meets Strong Russian Riposte; Kyiv’s forces are making progress but encountering resistance, defense official says” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Despite war, post-Soviet states find breaking up with Russia hard to do” – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Risks Return to Planned Economy – Central Bank” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s administration staff ‘are starting the day with a bottle of vodka and Security Council’s Dmitry Medvedev is often drunk when he writes his apocalyptic threats of nuclear war'” – Daily Mail (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate; Regardless of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russia is bracing for a long war” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Winnable War; Why the West Should Help Kyiv Retake All Its Territory” – Foreign Affairs/ Gideon Rose
• RUSSIALINK: “Ideology, Money or Freedom? Why Fighters from the Global South Join Russia’s Army in Ukraine” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s improved weaponry and tactics pose challenges to Ukraine’s counteroffensive” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Military Assistance to Ukraine Is a Rare Success” – RAND
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘A Wall of Steel’: Ukrainian Troops Face Hard Slog in Offensive’s First Days” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Ukraine Launches Counteroffensive, Definitions of ‘Success’ Vary” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Obituary. Her special child; Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin’s real mother; The resident of dirt-poor Mekheti, in Georgia, died on May 31st, aged 97” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s War Became Russia’s War; The Country Will Struggle to Reckon With Its Crimes in Ukraine” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attacking Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam Fits Russia’s Centuries’ Old Pattern” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “White House anxiously watches Ukraine’s counteroffensive, seeing the war and Biden’s reputation at stake” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Russian fortifications Ukraine needs to break through in its counter-offensive” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Taking back what is theirs; Ukraine strikes back; The counter-offensive is getting under way. The next few weeks will be critical” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Willing Collaborators; Ukraine Needs a Measured Lustration Policy to Strengthen Security and Rebuild Democracy” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The key to ending the war in Ukraine? Attacking Crimea” – Washington Post/ John E. Herbst, Daniel Fried
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian forces suffer ‘stiff resistance’ and losses in assault on Russian lines” – CNN
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kyiv says it intercepted call showing Russia blew up Kakhovka dam” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Unraveling Before Our Eyes; A wave of fresh humiliations has the Kremlin struggling to control the narrative” – Foreign Policy/ Alexey Kovalev
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Elite Is Souring on Putin’s Chances of Winning His War” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine: Ten guidelines for writing about catastrophe” – Timothy Snyder
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. had intelligence of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream project – Washington Post” – Reuters
• The Russian Idea Revisited
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Cologne court fines pro-Russia Ukrainian” – DW
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “De-colonising Russia and the independence movements threatening Putin” – The Herald (Scotland)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why Support for Putin’s War Is Rife in Russia’s Worst-Hit Regions” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Interview – Marlene Laruelle” – E-International Relations
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine? By historical standards, it’s a puny amount. That tells you three big things” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Next Target: Russian Trenches” – WSJ
• Russian History: Call For Papers: Reinterpreting Russian History after Feb. 24, 2022
• Russia in Review, May 26-June 2, 2023 – 4 Things to Know
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine military urges ‘silence’ ahead of expected counteroffensive” – Reuters
• RUSSIALINK: “Ukraine Operates Sabotage Cells, Smuggles Drones in Russia – CNN” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinksmanship” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden shows growing appetite to cross Putin’s red lines” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Olympic sports leaders meet amid uncertainty over Russians competing at 2024 Paris Games” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Letter from Moscow: When war suddenly explodes over your roof” – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “For NATO, Ukraine’s Status Is the Elephant in the Room” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not partners, but on same page: Russia, West push Armenian-Azeri peace” – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Imagining Russia’s future after Putin: Possible outcomes of a defeat in Ukraine” – Chatham House
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is terrified of Ukraine’s counteroffensive” – The Telegraph
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Satellite data show Ukraine’s forces are testing Russia’s defences” – The Economist
• RUSSIALINK: “Russian Officials, Pro-Kremlin Figures Offer Mixed Response to Moscow Drone Attack” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin Officials Continue to Use iPhones Despite U.S. Espionage Fears” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Lays Mines at ‘Industrial Level’ Ahead of Ukrainian Counteroffensive” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Denounces West Over Drone Strike on Moscow” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Executive Summary: Russia’s Use of Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine” – CNA
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The key to victory in Ukraine? Taking the long view” – Washington Post
• The Kremlin Finally Puts Together an Ideology