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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2021-#216 :: Thursday, 4 November 2021
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1. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin Offers False Comfort to Western Conservatives. His latest vision of Russia as an enemy of wokeism and a defender of traditional values fails to pass the laugh test.
2. TASS: Number of deaths due to coronavirus in Russia rises by 1,195 per day – tass.com/society/1357819
3. Financial Times editorial: Russia’s vaccine disinformation has let down its own people. Poor handling has intensified an enduring distrust of state authorities.
4. Moscow Times: Russian Inflation Jumps to 8.1%. Prices are accelerating at the fastest pace in almost six years.
5. rt.com: How Vladimir Putin changed from skeptic to believer on climate change – rt.com/russia/539281-putin-believer-climate-change/
6. Intellinews: Russian government approves carbon neutrality by 2060
7. Moscow Times: Russia Needs to Accept the True Scale of Its Climate Crisis
8. rt.com: RT hits back at study accusing it of publishing ‘climate denial,’ highlights importance of diverse opinions in ‘healthy discourse’ – rt.com/russia/539188-rt-ccdh-climate-change-accusations/
9. Bloomberg: Russia’s Gazprom Argues It’s Not to Blame for European Gas Crisis
10. Reuters: Explainer: Why Russian exports hold sway over European and British gas prices
11. TASS: Russia’s initiative to lift diplomatic restrictions turned down by US — Russian ambassador – tass.com/world/1357735
12. Reuters: CIA director brings up Russian hackers at talks in Moscow – sources
13. Responsible Statecraft: Ted Snider, Is the Russia-China strategic partnership turning into a military one? Washington shouldn’t be surprised, after years of building and leading security bulwarks against both countries.
14. Valdai Discussion Club: Denis Degterev, From “Anti-Maidans” to the Collective Non-West. The world ceased to be unipolar by the mid-2010s, when Western scenarios of “humanitarian intervention” (Yugoslavia, Libya) no longer worked, but it is too early to talk about true multipolarity – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/from-anti-maidans-to-the-collective-non-west/
15. AP: Putin urges development of new hypersonic missiles, lasers
16. China Daily: Putin sees threats in emerging Western tactics – chinadaily.com.cn/a/202111/03/WS6181e2d2a310cdd39bc72f58.html
17. Russia Matters: Pavel Luzin, Russia’s Defense Industry and Its Influence on Policy: Stuck in a Redistributive Feedback Loop. (excerpt)
18. Eurasia Daily Monitor: Paul Goble, Lithuania and Poland Want to ‘Recover’ Kaliningrad, Russian Analysts Say
19. Voice of America: U.S. Not Yet Alarmed by Russian Military Buildup Near Ukraine, Top General Says
20. New York Times: Weapons Tracing Study Implicates Russia in Ukraine Conflict. One of the most comprehensive studies to date of weaponry in the war in Ukraine shows a panoply of Russian-supplied arms that has helped fuel the war.
21. rt.com: Ukraine appoints former neo-Nazi paramilitary leader to senior army advisory role – rt.com/russia/539250-yarosh-announced-new-job/
