Johnson's Russia List

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• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power” – The Atlantic
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Time Is Not On Kyiv’s Side: Training, Weapons, and Attrition in Ukraine” – Modern War Institute at West Point
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Ukraine war bogs down, U.S. assessments face scrutiny” – Washington Post
• Russians in Small Towns Far from Moscow Live in Another World, Visitor from the Capital Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin still wants most of Ukraine, war outlook grim – U.S. intelligence chief” – Reuters
• AUDIO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Are sanctions actually hurting Russia’s economy? Here’s what you need to know” – NPR
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Drops Remaining Covid-19 Restrictions” – Moscow Times
• China’s Long Game in Russia: Violating Sanctions? No. Ensuring Russia’s Survival? Yes.
• RUSSIALINK: “Top Russian University Head Vladimir Mau Detained on Fraud Charges” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “EU nears compromise deal to defuse standoff with Russia over Kaliningrad” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian withdrawal from Snake Island offers path for Ukraine grain shipments” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Official: Russia could see West’s sanctions as cause for war” – AP
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Expands ‘Foreign Agents’ Law to Target ‘Foreign Influence'” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Military ‘Reshuffle’ Hints at Frustration With Slow Ukraine Advance” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “G-7 Summit Exposes West’s Challenges in Tackling Russia; Economic fallout is hampering further sanctions against Moscow as Ukraine demands more weapons to halt the Russian advance” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Military Forecasting and Analysis: The Military-Political Situation and Military Potential in Strategic Planning” – RAND
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘He doesn’t have a long life ahead of him’: Putin is suffering from several ‘grave’ illnesses and will be dead within two years, Ukraine’s spy chief claims”  – The Daily Mail (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “From Russian Elites, No Sign of Broad Challenge to Putin” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Sanctions Push Russia to First Foreign Default Since Bolshevik Revolution” – WSJ
• RUSSIALINK: “Pay Raises, More News and Tighter Control: Staff at Russian State TV Work Overtime Amid Ukraine War” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “After the war: AMEURUS; We need to be thinking now about ensuring Russia doesn’t form a power bloc with China in the long term — and even about what may appear now to be an unthinkable alliance” – Politico.eu
• Why Putin Needs Peter the Great
• JRL NEWSBLOG: “Can Putin Survive? The Lessons of the Soviet Collapse” – Foreign Affairs/ Vladislav Zubok
• JRL NEWSBLOG: “Why Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky Won’t Say Ukraine Is Winning the War” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin denounces the U.S. as a fading world power.” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Ukraine Will Win: Kyiv’s Theory of Victory” – Foreign Affairs/ Dmytro Kuleba
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia isn’t ashamed of Ukraine war, says Lavrov” – The Times (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is the West supplying Ukraine with enough weapons? The answer depends, in part, on what the goal is” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine to restrict Russian books, music in latest cultural break from Moscow” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe must arm Ukraine faster, urges its defence minister” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia needs economic ‘perestroika’ to end reliance on energy exports – cenbank chief” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “With Billions Going to Ukraine, Officials Warn of Potential for Fraud, Waste” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia likely to seize all of Luhansk in coming weeks, U.S. official says” – Washington Post
• Russia’s National Day
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s State Energy Company Keeps Russian Gas Flowing as War Rages” – WSJ
• The Week In Russia: ‘The Complete Collapse Of Everything’
• Western Sanctions Unlikely To Threaten Putin’s Government, Russian Economist Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has a Patriotism Problem. [Interview with Masha Lipman]” – The New Yorker
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Treasury bans Americans from buying Russian stocks and bonds” – CNN
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The conflict in Ukraine is settling into a war of attrition; But who can keep going longest?” – The Economist
• After 100 Days, Russian Offensive Crawls Toward Eventual Defeat
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Zelensky says stalemate with Russia ‘not an option'” – Financial Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Moscow Threatens Reprisals for U.S. Correspondents – Reports” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Westerners Who Stayed in Russia Find Home Transformed By War” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine: ‘Constant’ military aid needed from West until Russia defeated” – AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Deadly secret: Electronic warfare shapes Russia-Ukraine war” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight?” – AP
• Clues From Views: Russia’s National Security Chief Says Poland Preparing to Seize Land in Ukraine, Points Finger at ‘Selfish’ West
• War In Ukraine Has Become War Of Attrition Likely To End Through Negotiations, NATO Chief Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command” – Sky News
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “America sends advanced missiles to help Ukraine fend off Russia; They have been a long time coming” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Security Services Hunt for Russia Supporters and Agents in Their Midst” – WSJ
• Influencers, Echo Chambers, and Epistemic Bubbles: Russia’s Academic Discourse in the Wake of the War in Ukraine
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How the EU’s ban on Russian oil will rock global markets” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate” – New York Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Ukraine’s Zelensky Rules Out Attacks on Russia With U.S. Arms” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Extends Control Over Key Ukraine City as U.S. Plans to Boost Kyiv’s Firepower” – WSJ
• Biden Rules Out Sending Ukraine Long-Range Rocket Systems That Can Reach Russia
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The secret planning that kept the White House a step ahead of Russia” – Washington Post
• RUSSIALINK: “Patriarch Kirill ‘Understands’ Ukraine Church Schism” – Moscow Times
• Hoping for a Russia Without Putin: Biden Wasn’t the First, or the Last
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022: Vladimir Putin” – Time/ Alexei Navalny
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Advancing Russian forces reach key highway from Donbas cities” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Locals ‘apprehensive’ in Moscow-run Ukraine region” – AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine: Russia must withdraw to pre-war positions for talks” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Is Really Going on in the Kremlin?” – Kyiv Post/ Anders Åslund
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is starving millions of people around the world” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Hillary Clinton Did It: Her 2016 campaign manager says she approved a plan to plant a false Russia claim with a reporter” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy says UN, Red Cross order Russia to take its ‘mountains of corpses'” – Fox
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian negotiator rules out ceasefire or concessions to Russia” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Russian Orthodox Leader at the Core of Putin’s Ambitions” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Blinken accuses Russia of using food as a weapon in Ukraine” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Will Fight Until All Russian Forces Are Expelled, Military Intelligence Chief Says” – WSJ
• Experts Weigh In on Diplomatic Solutions in Ukraine
• RUSSIALINK: “The Decline of HSE: Top Russian University Stifles Dissent Amid Ukraine War” – Moscow Times
• Why Russia’s Economy Hasn’t Collapsed Under The Weight Of Sanctions
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill recalls dinner with ‘bizarre’-smelling Putin” – New York Post
• RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin Accuses Kyiv of ‘Lacking Will’ to Continue Peace Talks” – Moscow Times
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Pundit Gives Rare Public Damning Assessment of Ukraine War” – Newsweek
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Says 265 Azovstal Defenders Surrendered” – Moscow Times
• AUDIO: “Teddy Goes to the USSR”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia learns a hard lesson about the folly of war; Great powers usually come off worse when they invade smaller countries” – Financial Times
• RUSSIALINK: “McDonald’s to Sell Russian Business, Ending 32-Year Presence” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Did the Steele Dossier Hoax Cost America? Along with the press, what about the Russia ‘experts’ who played along or failed to oppose the collusion lie?” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has likely lost one-third of its combat forces in Ukraine, UK Defense Ministry says” – Fox
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Who will pay to put Ukraine back together again?” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine War’s Geographic Reality: Russia Has Seized Much of the East” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “America Must Embrace the Goal of Ukrainian Victory; It’s Time to Move Past Washington’s Cautious Approach” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Economy Facing Worst Contraction Since 1994; GDP may shrink 12% on sanctions, internal forecast shows” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine: civilian casualty update 9 May 2022” – UN OHCHR
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine has upgraded its war aims as confidence grows, says foreign minister” – Financial Times
• Interview: Why The ‘Failure’ Of Russian Spies, Generals Is Leading To ‘Apocalyptic’ Thinking In The Kremlin
• Ukraine War Fallout Highlights How Russia Matter(ed?) to Global Economy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Official: U.S. gave intel before Ukraine sank Russian warship” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Unexplained Attacks Inside Russian Territory Raise Prospect of Wider Conflict” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian Official Outlines Intentional Ambiguity on Strikes Inside Russia” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “West Ramps Up Ukraine Weapons Aid as Expectations About War’s Outcome Shift” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Western leaders must prepare public for a war economy; The cost of living crisis is likely to get worse before it gets better” – Financial Times