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• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Retreats From Villages on Eastern Front as It Awaits U.S. Aid” – New York Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Major European Banks Paying Russia More in Taxes Than Before Ukraine Invasion – FT” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “China’s ties with Russia are growing more solid” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Globalization Rose and Fell With Nord Stream” – Foreign Policy: Elisabeth Braw
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Western Ukraine, a Community Wrestles With Patriotism or Survival” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden needs to give Putin something to worry about” – The Hill: Mark Toth, Jonathan Sweet
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden admin isn’t fully convinced Ukraine can win, even with new aid” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Hard times; Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians; The elderly, the displaced and the disabled are the worst affected” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Brittle Regime: Like the Soviet One That Preceded It, His System Is Always on the Brink of Collapse” – Foreign Affairs: Maksim Samorukov
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin urges restraint in state seizure of assets” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The tide has turned decisively against Ukraine, can U.S. help keep it in the fight?” – Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
• Russia in Review, April 19-26, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Speaking Russian in America” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s War Will Soon Reach Russians’ Tax Bills” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Parallel economy; How Russia is defying the West’s boycott” – Al Jazeera
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Risks of War Are Weighing on Europe’s Leaders” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Putin’s No. 2 Believes About The West” – The Atlantic: Leon Aron
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “If You Think World War III Is Unimaginable, Read This” – Bloomberg
• CIA Director Burns on Ukraine: ‘We’re Running Out of Time to Help Them’
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kicking the can down the crumbling road in Ukraine” – Responsible Statecraft
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Happened to ‘Stalemate’ in Ukraine?” – Council on Foreign Relations: Stephen Sestanovich
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia, China dump the dollar as Moscow announces new trade corridors” – Quincy Institute 
• The West Should Brace for Long-Term Deterrence of Russia
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine pulls U.S.-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia tried to stay on good terms with Iran and Israel. Then they started fighting.” – Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Denying Consular Services to Men Outside the Country” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “An intellectual battle rages: Is the U.S. in a proxy war with Russia?” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A weak link; The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia warns Europe: if you take our assets, we have a response that will hurt” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. quietly shipped long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “FBI director: Russia is casing the U.S. — possibly for an attack on this critical industry” – NJ.com
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian cyber attackers hack Texas Panhandle drinking water and flood town in first-ever raid by ‘Kremlin aligned’ group” – The Daily Mail (UK)
• Opposition Divided over History Leading to Putin
• Is the Russian Federation Set to Fall Apart on Its Own?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mariinsky Dancers Barred From Youth Ballet Gala in New York” – New York Times
• UKRAINEWATCH: “Change the approach from just helping Ukraine fight to letting them win the war” – The Hill: Kira Rudik
• The Ukrainian Military Assistance Act Will Change the Situation on the Ground in Ukraine for the Better
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Aid Is a Lifeline for Ukraine’s Struggle to Hold Off Defeat” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky says the U.S. is ‘not funding’ war in Ukraine” – The Hill
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe — but Not NATO — Should Send Troops to Ukraine” – Foreign Affairs: Alex Crowther, Jahara Matisek, and Phillips P. O’Brien
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. weighs sending additional military advisers to Ukraine as Russia gains momentum” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What will it take for Ukraine to win?” – Washington Post: Michael O’Hanlon
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Christine Lagarde says U.S. plan to raise debt against Russian assets carries legal risk” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Announces the Total Withdrawal of Its Troops From Nagorno-Karabakh” – Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies
• Back to the Future: Russia’s New (and Old) Economic Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Burns: Ukraine could lose by end of 2024” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What’s Causing Russia’s Record Floods?” – Moscow Times/AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine is heading for defeat; The West’s failure to send weapons to Kyiv is helping Putin win his war.” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “This defiant Ukrainian general has no smile — and surprising remarks on Trump” – Washington Post [Re: Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Victory Could Lead to World War III: Kyiv” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Can Russian-U.S. Scientific Cooperation Be Restored as Arctic Warming and the Ukraine War Intensify?” – The Nation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Ukraine war is lost, but Hollywood and DC don’t know it” – Fox: Bryan Dean Wright
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF” – BBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “After Navalny’s Death, the Russian Opposition Is Divided in Exile”  – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: Russia-Ukraine Black Sea shipping deal was almost reached last month, sources say” – Reuters
• Polls Show Record Low Number of Russians Willing to Permanently Move Abroad
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine” – Foreign Affairs: Samuel Charap, Sergey Radchenko
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The futility of the war in Ukraine has become more apparent” – The Hill: Thomas Graham
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: Zelenskyy says without U.S. aid ‘we’ll have no chance of winning’” – PBS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: Russia restoring oil refining capacity knocked out by drones” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why President Zelensky Is Purging His Inner Circle” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Konstantin Skorkin
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Ready for Painful Concessions” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin says 2022 draft document could serve as starting point for future Ukraine peace talks” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Coming to Terms” – Harpers: George Beebe, Anatol Lieven
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin; Farm exports and freight are the problems” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine ‘will lose the war’ if U.S. fails to approve aid, says Zelensky” – CNN
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?” – The Nation: Lev Golinkin
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “IOC wins as top Western nations agree to Russians in Paris” -Deutsche Welle
• RUSSIALINK: “Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Who Fled Country Have Returned, Russia Says” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia, China to Work on ‘Double Counteracting’ U.S.-Led Alliance” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Help Ukraine Hold the Line” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin and Xi’s Unholy Alliance; Why the West Won’t Be Able to Drive a Wedge Between Russia and China” – Foreign Affairs: Alexander Gabuev
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Battling Under a Canopy of Drones” – The New Yorker
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The growing anger of Ukraine’s mutilated soldiers” – Le Monde
• The Crocus Attack May End the Ban on the Death Penalty in Russia
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian quarterly budget revenues rise more than half amid high oil prices” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Do Russians Believe Putin’s Propaganda?” – Time
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden Tells Ukraine Not to Hit Russia; The White House fears attacks on refineries inside Russia could raise global prices.” – WSJ
• Russia in Review, March 29-April 5, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Analysis: A New Phase of the War, March 29th, 2024” – Mikael Valtersson: Twitter
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Next Escalation Is Coming” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian women demand demobilisation of ‘exhausted’ loved ones” – The Times (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Ukraine’s tech army is taking the fight to Russia” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Wants to Show Support for Ukraine, but Only So Much” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Extortion, threats, fear, traitors: How Russia recruits Ukrainian spies” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian military ‘almost completely reconstituted,’ U.S. official says” -Defense News
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia presses for answers from West over Nord Stream blasts” – Reuters
• TRANSCRIPT: Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Darius Rochebin of LCI/TF1 [Excerpt]
• Record Spring Heat Grips Moscow
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian disinformation on Ukraine has grown in scale and skill, warns Berlin” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was possible target of attack” – Washington Post
• RUSSIALINK: “U.S. Warnings ‘Too General’ to Prevent Crocus Attack, Russia’s Spy Chief Says” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S., NATO Preparing for ‘All Contingencies’ Amid Russia War Threat” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine is not losing; U.S. assistance must continue” – The Hill: Evelyn N. Farkas
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Havana syndrome’ might have been a Russian attack. The U.S. can’t stop investigating.” – Washington Post
• RUSSIALINK: “Always Say До Свидания, Never Прощайте” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow attack: ‘The Russian population seems doomed to endure the Kremlin’s hunt for imaginary threats'” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is the problem Putin’s Russia or Mother Russia?” – The Hill: Alexander J. Motyl
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Troop-Starved Ukrainian Brigades Turn to Marketing to Attract Recruits” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Obstacles to Diplomacy in Ukraine; Russia’s Extreme Demands — and Ukraine’s Desire to Survive — Make Negotiations Unlikely” – Foreign Affairs
• Crocus Attack Ends Lull of Six Years, Raises Question About Law-Enforcers’ Focus
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections” – New York Times
• TRANSCRIPT: On-the-Record Press Gaggle by White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby [Excerpt]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The mood in wartime Ukraine: Weariness, resolve, and exasperation” – Atlantic Council
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs to open up about hard truths from battlefield, US diplomat says” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
• RUSSIALINK: “Russian Rights Chief Says Torturing Concert Attack Suspects ‘Inadmissible'” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Ukraine Needs from NATO: Advanced Weapons — and Clarity on What Membership Will Require” – Foreign Affairs: Ivo Daalder, Karen Donfried
• Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia ‘spreading slurs against Princess of Wales'” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “For Putin, Even a Terrorist Attack Is a Chance to Spread Misinformation” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Ukraine obsession has blinded him to dangers at home” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Expect more strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News” – ABC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attack on Russian Concert Hall Threatens Putin’s Strongman Image” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine” – Washington Post 12.4.23
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Warned About Possible Moscow Attack Before Concert Hall Shooting; Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” -New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute; In search of the perfect partner to derail Russian aggression” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Growing Tired of War; The people may cheer Putin, but they are increasingly resentful of the sacrifices he asks them to make.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia is winning the global grain war; And it’s turning EU countries against Ukraine in the process.” – PoliticoEU
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia says it is pushing Ukrainian forces back, will create two new armies” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Threat Forces Europe to Choose: Bolster Defense or Protect Social Spending” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t defund the fight against Russia and China’s disinformation” – Washington Post
• State Department: “On Russia’s Presidential Elections”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Americans Still See China as Nation’s Top Foe, Russia Second” – Gallup
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How can democracies respond to rigged elections?” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
• Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow hopes frozen assets swap scheme will benefit Russian stocks” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
• West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
• RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Bans Entry to 227 Americans for ‘Anti-Russian’ Actions” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The drama in Russia’s election is all about what Putin will do with another 6 years in power” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Russian Elite in a Frenzy Over Their Political Futures” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Plays Down Threat of Nuclear War” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
• 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War; Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine scrambles to fill U.S. funding gap” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Pumping Out Weapons—but Can It Keep It Up?” – WSJ
• VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
• RUSSIALINK: “’20 Days in Mariupol’ Brings First Oscar Home to Ukraine” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow plans its own mini-Olympics. Will Russians be satisfied?” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Big Lesson From the West’s Last Invasion of Russia” – Foreign Policy: Theodore Bunzel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Burning Up Its Future” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe is at last adjusting to the new reality in Ukraine” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Enters New Phase of War With Russia: Dig, Dig, Dig” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Free Boris Kagarlitsky: The Nation joins the global appeal for his release” – The Nation: Katrina Vanden Heuvel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia; To Prevail, Washington Must Revive Containment” – Foreign Affairs: Max Bergmann, Michael Kimmage, Jeffrey Mankoff, Maria Snegovaya
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t seize: capitalise; How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine; Exploit them to the full, but legally” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Sending troops to Ukraine: A necessary but badly presented debate” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield could make the war more dangerous for Russia” – CNBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance” – Washington Post
• Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken: “On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland”
• Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Can No Longer Hesitate on Ukraine” – Foreign Policy: Alexander Vershbow
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years After Russia Invaded Ukraine: Q&A with RAND Experts” – RAND
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Six-Year Manifesto Sets Sights Beyond Ukraine” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s resilience to sanctions shows it is ‘costly and unattainable’ to isolate a large and globally integrated economy, economist says” – Business Insider
• The War in Ukraine in a Transitional World Order
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Sees Risk of Russia Breaking Through Defenses by Summer” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Frontline Is Collapsing” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Navalny’s Funeral to Be Held on Friday, Spokeswoman Says” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin propagandists attack director of new ‘Master and Margarita’ film captivating Russians” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death” – New York Times:
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine? Eight thinkers shed light on the state of the war” – Foreign Policy
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Experts analyze state of Ukraine war 2 years into Russia’s invasion [Michael Kofman, John Mearsheimer and Rebeccah Heinrichs]” – PBS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine War: China’s Vanishing Neutrality” – The Diplomat
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two years on, is Ukraine’s military faltering?” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?” – WSJ
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: The Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine” – CSIS
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky Says 31,000 Ukrainian Troops Killed in Two Years of War” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A War Putin Still Can’t Win” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Deepening Fog of War” – New York Times