Year: 2019

RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#159 :: Monday, 30 September 2019

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Will the Electoral Success Achieved by the Opposition Inspire a New Wave of Opposition Activity?

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Map of Russia and Russian Flag adapted from images at state.gov

(PONARS Eurasia – Mikhail Vinogradov – September 18, 2019) Mikhail Vinogradov is the president of the “St. Petersburg Politics” foundation, one of Russia’s top think tanks. Maria Lipman discusses the political developments of the past two months and the Russian government’s general policy toward elections with Mikhail Vinogradov, a Russian political expert and one of the most-often cited political commentators. […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#158 :: Friday, 27 September 2019

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RUSSIALINK: “St. Petersburg court releases opposition activist Ivankin arrested for protest action in cemetery” – Interfax

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photos of Law Books and Gavel, adapted from image at fjc.gov

ST. PETERSBURG. Sept 26 (Interfax) – St. Petersburg’s Vasileostrovsky District Court on Wednesday dismissed the coroner’s motion and released member of the opposition movement Agit Rossiya Pavel Ivankin, whom police suspected of desecrating graves while staging protest action in a cemetery. Ivankin was released in courtroom, an Interfax correspondent reported. In releasing him, the judge cited shortage of evidence presented […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#157 :: Thursday, 26 September 2019

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Biggest Companies Account for More Than 80% of GDP; The RBC 500 shows concentration increased at the top in 2018” – Moscow Times

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
Men Sitting Around Long Oval Boardroom Table, File Photo of FIFA Officials Meeting with Vladmir Putin

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 26, 2019) Russia’ biggest companies increased their domination of the country’s economy last year, according to RBC’s fifth annual ratings list, the RBC 500. The combined revenues of the 500 companies on the list rose in 2018 to 85.5 trillion rubles ($1.3 trillion), up 18.2% compared with the previous year. In GDP terms, the […]

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Putin’s Preferred Methods of Rule No Longer Working as Intended, Shevtsova Says

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Podium with United Russia Logo, Gesturing

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, September 21, 2019) Every move the Kremlin makes on the political field today shows that ‘the mechanisms of administration which have been in place for two decades have exhausted themselves and that the Kremlin has not been able to put in place a new model of rule,” Liliya Shevtsova says. As a […]

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RUSSIALINK: “United Russia Officials Meddled in St. Petersburg Vote, Top Election Official Says; Ella Pamfilova said members of the ruling party had ‘directly intervened in the electoral process.'” – Moscow Times

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
St. Petersburg

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Daniel Kozin – September 25, 2019) Top members of the ruling United Russia party in St. Petersburg meddled in the city’s municipal elections earlier this month, Central Election Commission Head Ella Pamfilova said Wednesday. Observers noted widespread violations during the Sept. 8 elections, including lengthy delays in the official count, intimidation and recounts. According to […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Economic growth not an end in itself, vital to boost incomes – Putin” – Interfax

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Hands Opening Envelope Containing Cash

MOSCOW. Sept 25 (Interfax) – Public- and social-sector wages, to which the May presidential decree does not apply, will be indexed by 4.3% on October 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Cabinet ministers. The main topic of the meeting was additional measures to speed up economic growth and raising household incomes. “Economic growth itself is not […]

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Kudrin announces upcoming visit by U.S. Government Accountability Office to Moscow

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Alexei Kudrin file photo

MOSCOW. Sept 24 (Interfax) – Russian Accounts Chamber head Alexei Kudrin has announced an upcoming visit to Russia by representatives of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, who will exchange experience with their Russian colleagues. “We are expecting a delegation from the U.S. as early as next year,” Kudrin told reporters at the XVIII INTOSAI Congress after the signing of a […]

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Russia’s Oil Reserves Now Worth $1.2 Trillion

Oil, Gas, Energy
Oil Well file photo

(Oilprice.com – Charles Kennedy – September 22, 2019) The total value of Russia’s oil reserves is estimated at $1.2 trillion, nearly doubling the valuation over the course of a single year, Moscow’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment reported Friday. According to the ministry’s data, the market value of the oil reserves increased by 88 percent over the past year, […]

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Sharon Tennison: “Russia Redux: the Gulag Museum”

History, Soviet Union, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Gulag Victim Ivan Burylov

Subject: Russia Redux: the Gulag Museum Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 From: Sharon Tennison <sharon@ccisf.org> [Text with photos: ccisf.org/russia-redux-the-gulag-museum/] Our September 2019 mega-delegation of American citizens were dazzled by the beauty of current day Russia and also horrified to learn what today’s grandparents and great-grandparents endured in the Gulag work across the USSR. It is reported that over 17,000,000 persons, […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Russian Women Are Getting Married 8 Years Later On Average, Official Data Says” – Moscow Times

Life in Russia, Culture, Arts, Population Disaster, Demographics
File Photo of Wedding Ring and Engagement Ring, adapted from image at fnal-gov

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 24, 2019) The average woman in Russia gets married eight years later than she did earlier this decade, according to official data. Marriage rates in Russia hit their lowest point since 2000 last year, according to Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) data, and researchers don’t expect rates to begin rising again until the mid-2020s. Most […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#156 :: Tuesday, 24 September 2019

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Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: “Beyond the Choice of Change vs. Status Quo in Russia: One More Thing About the Elections”

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Map of Russia and Russian Flag adapted from images at state.gov

Subject: Beyond the Choice of Change vs. Status Quo in Russia: One More Thing About the Elections Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:25:17 +0700 From: Sarah Lindemann-Komarova <echosiberia@gmail.com> Beyond the Choice of Change vs. Status Quo in Russia: One More Thing About the Elections By Sarah Lindemann-Komarova Sarah Lindemann-Komarova has been a community development activist in Siberia since 1992. Currently […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Guns, Butter, and Russia’s Enduring Power” – Kennan Institute/ Maxim Trudolyubov

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Cash, Calculator, Pen

(Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – Maxim Trudolyubov – September 20, 2019) Maxim Trudolyubov is a Senior Fellow at the Kennan Institute and the Editor-at-Large of Vedomosti, an independent Russian daily. Mr. Trudolyubov was the editorial page editor of Vedomosti between 2003 and 2015. In response to sanctions and attempts to isolate Russia, the Kremlin has built up a budget with […]

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Shaman Story Overwhelms Russian Media, Highlighting Deep Problems among Russians and in the Kremlin

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and River

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, September 19, 2019) Sometimes the real story is the story, the fact that some event has so captured the attention of the media and the public that it has overwhelmed coverage of almost everything else. That is what has happened in Russia in the case of the shaman who promised to exorcize […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Why Is Russia So Unproductive? Analysts say a toxic cocktail of state capitalism, corruption and low investment curbs output” – Moscow Times

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Diverse Paper Currency, Coins, Line Graph

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jake Cordell – September 23, 2019) During his annual phone-in with the public in June this year, President Vladimir Putin described low productivity as “one of the most acute and important” problems facing Russia. Economists agree. Russia is one of the least productive moderately rich countries in the world, ranking 39th out of the 42 […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#155 :: Monday, 23 September 2019

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Love Affair With India; Food and culture have forged strong ties between the countries over the past three decades” – India

India
India map

(Moscow Times – Loretta Marie Perera – September 20, 2019) When Ponnuchamy Jeevanantham first came to Moscow from Tamil Nadu in southern India in 1987 to study agriculture at the Peoples’ Friendship University he was dismayed by how mild Russian food was compared to Indian cuisine. “You couldn’t find any spices,” he said. “There were bay leaves, black pepper and […]

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Few Russians Back Navalny Because Regime has Successfully Discredited Politics and Politicians, Dolganov Says

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Alexei Navalny Marching on Street with Others in Background; adapted from image at commons.wikimedia.org with credit to Evgeny Feldman, subject to Creative Commons license; original image at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FEV_1795_(cropped1).jpg, with license information at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en and creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, September 14, 2019) Some have expressed surprise that few Russians have paid much attention to siloviki raids on Navalny staffs in more than 40 cities, Aleksandr Dolganov says; but they shouldn’t be because the Putin regime has successfully discredited politics and politicians. The Socium Foundation director tells Olga Balyuk of the Znak […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#154 :: Friday, 20 September 2019

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‘Make Africa Safe’: Russia’s Competitive Advantage in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Africa Map

(Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 127 – Sergey Sukhankin – September 18, 2019) On October 23-24, the southwestern Russian resort city of Sochi will host the first ever Russia-Africa Summit (Ravision2030.com, accessed September 14). Sharing his expectations of the upcoming event, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov underscored its “pivotal importance” and “unprecedented nature.” […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia geared towards borrowing abroad in currencies other than USD in years to come – MinFin” – Interfax

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Diverse Paper Currency, Coins, Line Graph

MOSCOW. Sept 19 (Interfax) – The Russian Finance Ministry will be geared towards borrowing abroad in currencies other than the U.S. dollar in the next few years, a ministry official told reporters. “There are questions as to what will happen with borrowing abroad. Naturally we will at first be geared towards reserve currencies outside the dollar zone. There is the […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Situation with actor Ustinov case developing within framework of law – Peskov” – Interfax

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television
Dmitry Peskov file photo adapted from image at kremlin.ru/wikimedia commons

MOSCOW. Sept 19 (Interfax) – The situation with actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for attacking a Russian Guardsman, is developing within the framework of law, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Responding to a question from journalists as to whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has become familiar with filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev’s address to […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#153 :: Thursday, 19 September 2019

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Analysis: After ‘Significant’ Regional Elections, Russia’s Opposition Looks To The Future

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Russia Regions Map

(Article text ©2019 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Robert Coalson – Sept. 17, 2019 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/russia-analysis-opposition-future-regional-election-putin-navalny-protests/30169846.html) More than a week after regional elections, Russia’s anti-Putin opposition is struggling to understand exactly what was achieved and what comes next. For both the Kremlin and the opposition, the September 8 vote was a […]

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Change The Russian Constitution? Might Be A Good Idea, Says Putin Confidant

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Podium with United Russia Logo, Gesturing

(Article text ©2019 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Mike Eckel – Sept. 16, 2019 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/change-the-russian-constitution-might-be-a-good-idea-says-putin-confidant/30167426.html) Last October, it was a senior Russian judge suggesting that the country’s 26-year-old constitution should be tweaked — possibly with an eye toward prolonging President Vladimir Putin’s stay in power. Two months later, it was […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Russia Could Gain From Saudi Oil Attack – Analysts; Higher oil prices are generally good for the world’s second-largest producer” – Moscow Times

Oil, Gas, Energy
Oil Well file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jake Cordell) Russia is set to be a major winner after an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities slashed production and ramped up tensions in the Middle East, analysts predict. In a frantic day for the world’s markets, oil prices climbed by almost 15% Monday following the drone attacks on Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia’s largest oil […]

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1970s Generation was Too Old and Too Young to Change Russia’s Direction, One of Their Number Says

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and River

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, September 12, 2019) Moscow historian Vasily Zharkov in applying Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s theory of generational cycles of 30 years to Russia, says that his own, those born in the 1970s “turned out to be too young to take part in the reforms of the 1990s and risk being too old when Russia […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#151 :: Tuesday, 17 September 2019

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Russian Officials have Contracted Dangerous Disease of ‘Putin Dependence,’ Popov Says

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Vladimir Putin file photo with VOA logo; screen shot from video still

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, September 8, 2019) Russian officials are increasingly unwilling to risk taking any independent action lest they get in trouble for it, Dmitry Popov says. Instead, they allow small problems to grow into bigger ones that will ultimately attract the attention of Vladimir Putin who will then intervene and solve them. This “Putin […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#150 :: Monday, 16 September 2019

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Russia’s Energy Minister: Fundamentals, Not Trump Impact Oil Prices

Oil, Gas, Energy
Oil Well file photo

(Oilprice.com – Tsvetana Paraskova – September 12, 2019) Russia and OPEC are looking at the fundamental forces on the oil market such as supply and demand, rather than at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told CNBC in an exclusive interview on Thursday. “You know, we are looking at all the factors that one way or […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Ella Pamfilova, Villain of the Moscow Vote Protest Movement, Belongs to a Dying Breed; Both the Russian government and the opposition have grown tired of her, analysts say.” – Moscow Times

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Arm and Torso of Person in Brown Sweater Placing Paper Ballot into Ballot Box

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Evan Gershkovich- September 13, 2019) It was one of the defining moments of the summer: the budding leader of Moscow’s protest movement for fair elections and the official responsible for protecting Russians’ voting rights coming to verbal blows at a public hearing. “You are the talking head of the presidential administration. Shame on you,” Lyubov […]

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Russian Population Decline in Spotlight Again

Far East, Siberia, APEC, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Population Disaster, Demographics
File Photo of Crowd in Russia Including Person Waving Russian Flag with Eagle

(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – Daniel Shapiro, Natasha Yefimova-Trilling – September 13, 2019) Last week, in a meeting with top advisors, Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented the population decline in the country’s Far East, saying it falls in an “alarming, red zone.” While this sparsely populated region, which shares a border with far more densely populated Chinese provinces, may raise […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Domestic Violence Affects 1 in 3 Russians, Poll Says” – Moscow Times

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, Women
Map of Russia and Russian Flag adapted from images at state.gov

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 13, 2019) Nearly one-third of Russia’s population has come face-to-face with domestic violence in their own families or among acquaintances, according to an independent survey published Friday. Russia decriminalized certain forms of domestic violence in 2017, a decision that top lawmakers have said was a mistake two years later. Activists say the absence of […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#149 :: Friday, 13 September 2019

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Gilbert Doctorow: “The ‘opposition’ victory in Moscow”

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Russia Regions Map

From: Gilbert Doctorow <gdoctorow@yahoo.com> Subject: The “opposition” victory in Moscow Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 As for the 16 governorships, there does not seem to be much material for creative analysis. United Russia won hands down, without serious challenges except for Khabarovsk where they were overwhelmed by the strong candidate put up by LDPR. Not surprising there, because Zhirinovsky’s appeal […]

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VIDEO & ARTICLE: A Blow To Fair Elections: Russian Police Stand Idly By As Election Observer Is Sucker Punched

Assassinations, Beatings, Threats, Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Screenshot of Video at https://twitter.com/CurrentTimeTv/status/1171888101989539842 showing man punching another man in the stomach at Russian polling place while second man was looking down at mobile device

(Article text ©2019 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Todd Prince – Sept. 12, 2019 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/russian-police-stand-idly-by-as-election-observer-sucker-punched/30160427.html) [click here to jump down to video] Based on the reaction of police and election officials inside St. Petersburg polling station 1619, the event that unfolded before them on election day last week was nothing […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Notable & Quotable: Did Russia Decide the Election? ‘I think that really does devalue the people in Wisconsin and Michigan and others who decided to vote for President Trump'” – Wall Street Journal/ NBC Today Show/ Condoleezza Rice

JRL NewsBlog, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Multilingual Polling Place Sign from U.S. Election Polling Place

“… Condoleezza Rice … asked whether Russian meddling swung the 2016 election …: ‘I don’t think there is any evidence of that. … I really don’t think that that’s a good conversation to have. … that really does devalue the people … who decided to vote for … Trump . … [L]et’s give … credit to … Americans who went […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Swap: Necessary, Not Sufficient” – International Crisis Group

JRL NewsBlog, Military, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War
Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

“… Moscow released 35 Ukrainian citizens. … includ[ing] four Crimeans arrested shortly after Russia’s … takeover of the peninsula, along with 24 sailors … Russian security forces apprehended [on] the Black Sea …. Russian courts had charged them with crimes including terrorism, espionage, conspiracy to violate state borders, and, most bizarrely, killing Russian troops in Chechnya in the mid-1990s. Human […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Will Likely Collapse from the Inside” – Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Israel)/ Emil Avdaliani (Tbilisi State University, Ilia State University)

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Revolutionaries Marching in Moscow in 1917, adapted from image at state.gov

“Russia is historically prone to internal collapse … shown by numerous examples from both the imperial and Soviet periods. … usually tak[ing] place as Russia rests on the laurels of recent military victories while internal economic and social troubles grow. … the best way to deal with Russia is to keep intervention to a minimum and wait for its internal […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Turns Trampled Grass Into Weapon Against Opponents” – Bloomberg/ Jake Rudnitsky, Ilya Arkhipov

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, JRL NewsBlog, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Regions, Cities, Municipalities
File Photos of Law Books and Gavel, adapted from image at fjc.gov

“A state-owned organization responsible for maintaining Moscow’s roads is seeking compensation from protest leaders for grass trampled during a recent unsanctioned protest, part of a multi-pronged assault on the opposition …. [A]uthorities raided at least 39 offices in Navalny’s political network [across the country], seeking evidence for a money laundering investigation … against his Anti-Corruption Foundation, his ally Leonid Volkov […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Moscow ready to discuss with U.S. different solutions to New START issue – Ryabkov” – Interfax

Nuclear, Missile Defense, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Stealth Bomber in Flight

MOSCOW. Sept 12 (Interfax) – Russia is ready to discuss with the United States alternative solutions on the issue of prolonging the New START Treaty if Washington expresses its readiness to achieve them, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. “We will continue working on getting the Americans to have a substantive discussion of these ideas, or to discuss some […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Common moral, ethical values of all religions in Russia ensure state stability of country – Putin” – Interfax

Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Regions, Cities, Municipalities, Religion
Russian Mosque file photo

BOTLIKH VILLAGE, Dagestan. Sept 12 (Interfax) – The common moral and ethical values of all religions represented in Russia guarantee the stability of the Russian state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “We have a multi-religious country, but if you look closely, all our religions have the same values. As regards the moral and ethical component, they are practically the same,” […]

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RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “Dialogue with Dmitry Medvedev; The Prime Minister discussed the Government’s plans to achieve national development goals with businesspeople and analysts on Rossiya 24’s Dialogue programme” – Government.ru

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Science, Technology, Engineering
Dmitri Medvedev file photo

(Government.ru – Sept. 11, 2019 – government.ru/en/news/37840/) Excerpts from the transcript: Foreign investment Dmitry Medvedev: We live in a complicated world, and the circumstances our country has found itself in are fairly complicated as well, including sanctions and trade wars. Nevertheless, investors want to invest. Speaking of foreign investors, the RDIF and other investment-related institution activity are quite telling in […]

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RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#148 :: Thursday, 12 September 2019

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To inquire about a subscription to the full Johnson’s Russia List e-mail newsletter, e-mail David Johnson at davidjohnson@starpower.net Support the JRL: russialist.org/funding.php Donate Online: click here for direct link at GWU [check back for updates, including more links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#148 :: Thursday, 12 September 2019 A project sponsored through […]

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JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Sanctions Tighten Putin’s Circle, Extend Kremlin’s Reach; Russian businesses cut off from foreign funds turn to state banks” – Wall Street Journal/ Thomas Grove, Alan Cullison

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Europe, EU, JRL NewsBlog, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Russia & the West, Sanctions, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Cash, Calculator, Pen

“… Deripaska’s debt shuffle is part of a shift in the Russian economy that accelerated when the West began to impose sanctions … after Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula and launched a covert military operation in eastern Ukraine. Though some sanctions were meant to split Russia’s economic elite from the Kremlin, they have pushed sanctioned individuals closer to the Russian […]

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RUSSIALINK: “Automation May Push 20 Million Russians Into Unemployment, Study Says” – Moscow Times

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Science, Technology, Engineering
File Photo of Factory Robot, adapted form image at NIST.gov

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Sept. 10, 2019) More than 20 million Russians risk losing their jobs to automation over the next decade if they don’t develop new skills, according to new research. Economists estimate that robots will take over more than 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030. Automation is expected to lead to major job losses despite bringing […]

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