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• Russia in Review, Jan. 20-27, 2023 – 6 Things to Know
• TRANSCRIPT: Senate Hearing on: COUNTERING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION: UKRAINE AND BEYOND [Celeste Wallender Testimony]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Some Western Backers of Ukraine Worry That Time Might Be on Russia’s Side” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Thinks It’s ‘His Destiny’ to Recreate Russian Empire: Robert Gates” – Newsweek
• RUSSIALINK: “New U.S. Ambassador Lands in Moscow as Relations Near Breaking Point” – Moscow Times
• EVENT: Kennan Institute: “Bucha After Russian Occupation: Bucha’s Mayor on the Destruction of His City and Hopes for the Future”
• Documentary on Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Nominated for Oscar
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Months after Russian invasion, Meta is tweaking its content policies” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia must be punished for its war crimes” – The Hill/ Walter C. Clemens, Jr.
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Western Tanks Heading to Ukraine Raise Stakes for Russia’s Next Move” – WSJ
• Volodymyr Yermolenko: Russian Culture Has No Alternative To Imperialism
• Kathleen Parthé: “On: The (Sorry) State of the Field (JRL #18, Jan. 24, 2023)”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Defense minister Reznikov under fire as corruption probes rock Ukraine” – Politico
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine says that its forces have retreated from Soledar after an intense battle” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany to Send Tanks to Ukraine, With U.S. Set to Follow; Berlin says it and allies will quickly provide two battalions of Leopard tanks for Ukraine” – Wall Street Journal/ Bojan Pancevski, Bertrand Benoit
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainians Target Pushkin in Drive Against Russian Influence; Ukraine is pulling down monuments to Russian writers, while Russia is reinstalling Lenin statues in occupied towns.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe Needs a Strategy for Russia After Putin; Competing ideas about the end state of the war are striving for dominance” – Foreign Policy/ Bart M. J. Szewczyk
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “To Defend Civilization, Defeat Russia” – The Atlantic
• JRL NEWSWEEK: “Russia Could Collapse Into ‘New States’ After Ukrainian Victory: Economist” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What the hell is the West waiting for? In an extraordinarily powerful – and emotional – rallying cry, BORIS JOHNSON implores Britain’s allies to give Ukraine all the weapons it needs to win NOW” – The Daily Mail (UK)/ Boris Johnson
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Will Ukraine Need to Make Territorial Concessions to Russia? Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. imports uranium from Russia. What if sanctions end that?” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t Fear Putin’s Demise; Victory for Ukraine, Democracy for Russia” – Foreign Affairs/ Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Adam Schiff, Disinformation Man: The latest Twitter documents show how he deceived the public and has earned his ouster from the Intelligence Committee.” – Wall Street Journal
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A Brutal New Phase of Putin’s Terrible War in Ukraine” – New York Times
• TRANSCRIPT: “Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and General Mark A. Milley Press Conference Following Ukraine Defense Contact Group Meeting, Ramstein Air Base, Germany [Excerpt]”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Defensive missile systems erected on Moscow rooftops” – The Guardian
• Russia’s Oil And Gas Revenues Are In Decline
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Sanctions on Russia Are Working: Slowly but Surely, They Are Weakening Putin” – Foreign Affairs/ Vladimir Milov
• Kissinger’s Post-War Visions Puts Ukraine in NATO, but Also Has an ‘Opening to Russia’
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Bloody Bakhmut siege poses risks for Ukraine” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war: Bakhmut defenders plea for Western tanks” – BBC
• RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin: Russian Firms Can Ignore ‘Unfriendly’ Foreign Shareholders” – Moscow Times
• VIDEO: “How U.S. prosecutors seize sanctioned Russian assets” – CBS
• Putin Elite Not Only Promotes Five Conspiracy Theories but Also Believes in Them, Arkhipov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Energy Clout Is Waning, Weakening Its Global Influence” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “No Russian and no Russians: Ukraine invasion has supercharged Latvian nationalism” – Vancouver Sun
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “What 70 Years of War Can Tell Us About the Russia-Ukraine Conflict” – New York Times
• Russia in Review, Jan. 6-13, 2023 – 4 Things to Know
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Wartime Putinism: What the Disaster in Ukraine Has Done to the Kremlin — and to Russia” – Foreign Affairs/ Michael Kimmage, Maria Lipman
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Scale of alleged torture, detentions by Russian forces in Kherson emerges” – Reuters
• On the Horizon 2023 | Russia and Ukraine; Critical Challenge for the U.S. | War in Ukraine
• AUDIO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin has only 1 option left but won’t accept it, says Ukraine’s foreign minister” – NPR/ Mary Louise Kelly
• TRANSCRIPT: Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing [re: Ukraine]
• RUSSIALINK: “Beijing Fears Russia Becoming ‘Minor Power’ Under ‘Crazy’ Putin – FT” – Moscow Times
• Nine Signs Russian Economy in Deep Trouble
• Fighting Remains Tough in Ukraine
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “It’s High Time to Prepare for Russia’s Collapse; Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.” – Foreign Policy/ Alexander J. Motyl
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Time is not on Ukraine’s side” – Washington Post/ Condoleezza Rice, Robert M. Gates
• Anti-War Russians
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine military says it killed 800 Russian soldiers in past day” – EURACTIV/ Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Rebound: How Moscow Has Partly Recovered From Its Military Setbacks” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Already Paying Us Back; Our investments in Ukrainian democracy are paying off. Now is not the time to pull back.” – Politico
• Dmitry Medvedev in His Own Words: From Modernizing Liberal to Hateful Hawk
• RUSSIALINK: “Putin Signals Readiness for Peace Talks if Kyiv Cedes Occupied Regions” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “What Really Happened With Russia’s Economy in 2022?” – Moscow Times
• Ruslan Khasbulatov, Whose 1993 Showdown With Yeltsin Led To Deadly Parliament Shelling, Dies Aged 80
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Military Leadership Feels Pressure From Makiivka Fallout” – Moscow Times
• War in Ukraine: RM’s Most Read of 2022
• Moscow’s Invasion Of Ukraine Triggers ‘Soul-Searching’ At Western Universities As Scholars Rethink Russian Studies
• RUSSIALINK: “‘Where Are We Heading?’: Wartime New Year Prompts Russian Soul-Searching” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s New Winter War: Could Putin Go the Way of Napoleon and Hitler?” – Foreign Affairs
• RUSSIALINK: “Russia Warns U.S. Against Launching ‘Decapitation Strike’ on Putin” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, Isolated and Distrustful, Leans on Handful of Hard-Line Advisers” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky Urges Ukrainians to Persevere as Putin Says Moscow Ready for Long War” – WSJ
• At Christmas, Pope Urges End to ‘Senseless’ Ukraine War
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Won’t Be Using Patriot Missiles Anytime Soon After Omnibus’ Passing” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Victory’? Zelensky and Biden differ on the path forward for Ukraine” – Washington Post/ David Ignatius
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Some Ukrainians move up Christmas to part ways with Russia” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Citizen Spies Foiled Putin’s Grand Plan for One Ukrainian City” – New York City
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Belarus Is Inching Toward Invading Ukraine; Signs are growing that an invasion from the north could be imminent” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Russia running out of ammunition? Many of its shells are probably older than the conscripts firing them” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington; The U.S. would be far worse off today if Putin had conquered Ukraine.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Nearly 1,000 faith leaders call for Christmas cease-fire in Ukraine” – Washington Post
• What’s Ahead in the War in Ukraine
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Spending Bill Contains Billions for Ukraine” – WSJ
• [White House] Background Press Call on the Upcoming Visit of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
• RUSSIALINK: “Putin Insists No Plan to Absorb Belarus on Visit in Ukraine Shadow” – Moscow Times
• Russian Elite Increasing[ly] Divided on What to Do If Russia Faces Defeat in Ukraine, Stanovaya Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Could Take Out Russia in 3 Days: Congressman” – Newsweek
• Russian Space Chief Praises U.S. After ISS Coolant Leak
• Russia Is Running Out of Missiles … or Not
• 7 Ideas to Explore – Russia Analytical Report, Dec. 12-19, 2022
• Book Announcement: The Tragedy of Ukraine
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has its troops. But does it have the economy to supply them?” – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• AUDIO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “A century and counting: Ukraine’s ongoing fight to free itself from Russia” – NPR
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Makes Rare Visit to Ukraine War Headquarters” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A Biden admin official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to take back Crimea” – NBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Are We in the West Weaker Than Ukrainians? Thank God someone is standing up to Putin.” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A looming Russian offensive; Ukraine’s chiefs, in an unprecedented series of briefings, tell The Economist about the critical months that lie ahead” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Royal Marines deployed on ‘high-risk covert operations’ in Ukraine” – The Times (UK)
• RUSSIALINK: “Ukraine War and Popularity Worries: Why Putin is Skipping His Annual Press Conference” – Moscow Times
• Russian Deaths Stable over Last Seven Months but Russian Births Continue to Decline Catastrophically, Chernyshov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is trying to silence those who tell of the war’s horrors” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Divided in the Face of Defeat: The Schism Forming in the Russian Elite” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s War and the Dangers of Russian Disintegration; The Unraveling of a Fragile Multiethnic State Could Lead to More Violence” – Foreign Affairs/ Marlene Laruelle
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin says Russia could adopt U.S. preemptive strike concept” – AP
• 7 Unexpected Ways Western Sanctions Have Affected Life in Russia
• Putin Cancels Annual Press Conference for First Time in Decade