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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2021-#233 :: Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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1. Moscow Times: Putin Says Constitutional Right to Re-Election ‘Stabilizes’ Russia.
2. rt.com: Russia not building ‘fortress walls’ but simply seeking to increase sovereignty – Putin – rt.com/russia/541759-increase-sovereignty-putin-moscow/
3. Reuters: Putin says he hasn’t decided on 2024 run but Biden right to seek 2nd term
4. AP: Putin warns West: Moscow has ‘red line’ about Ukraine, NATO
5. TASS: Lavrov hopes that current Ukrainian leadership won’t follow ‘Saakashvili’s path’ – tass.com/politics/1368555
6. No Yardstick: András Tóth-Czifra, Political QR. The ongoing debate about the introduction of country-wide vaccination passes is turning into a case study of the weaknesses of Russia’s emerging digital authoritarianism and public power in general.
7. Reuters: Putin gives government a week to prepare Omicron action plan
8. Riddle: All politics is local: Urban electoral coalitions in Russia. Andrei Semenov and Elizaveta Popkova on how the formation of electoral coalitions at the local level defines the vector and format of future electoral battles. – ridl.io/en/all-politics-is-local-urban-electoral-coalitions-in-russia/
9. Oilprice.com: Russia Is Ready To Return To Pre-Pandemic Oil Production
10. rt.com: ‘Vladimir Putin’s pipeline weapon’: What’s really going on with Nord Stream 2? – rt.com/business/541614-nord-stream2-gas-pipeline-delay/
11. Oilprice.com: Russia Warns The U.S. Not To Interfere With Nord Stream.
12. rt.com: Russia comments on US ‘religious freedom’ claims – rt.com/russia/541741-comments-us-religion-freedom/
13. Antiwar.com: Ted Galen Carpenter, The Usual Suspects Are Trying to Foment a Crisis With Russia – original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2021/11/29/the-usual-suspects-are-trying-to-foment-a-crisis-with-russia/
14. rt.com: Russia & China to team up against ‘illegitimate’ US sanctions – rt.com/russia/541760-mishustin-beijin-mutual-trust/
15. Asia Times: Aditya Park, What is driving Russia and China together. Japan, India and the U.S. need to address Russian anxieties.
16. Foreign Policy: Anatol Lieven, Russia Is Right on the Middle East. Moscow has been supporting, not undermining, U.S. interests in the region.
17. Responsible Statecraft: James Dorsey, Testing the waters: Russia explores reconfiguring Gulf security. Russia hopes to blow new life into a proposal for a multilateral security architecture in the Gulf, with the tacit approval of the Biden administration.
18. Russian International Affairs Council: Pietro Shakarian and Benjamin Poghosyan, Moscow’s Caucasian Conundrum: Turkish-Russian Relations and the Limits of “Strategic Competition” – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/columns/eurasian-policy/moscow-s-caucasian-conundrum-turkish-russian-relations-and-the-limits-of-strategic-competition/
19. PONARS Eurasia: Ekaterina Stepanova, Russia’s Approach to Afghanistan Following the Taliban Takeover
20. rt.com: Paul Robinson, Putin’s People: Russian media spreads ‘disinformation,’ British journalists make ‘mistakes’ – rt.com/russia/541618-abramovich-defamed-putin-harpercollins/
21. Reuters: Life under siege: residents fear new surge of war in rebel-held east Ukraine
22. Twitter: Dean O’Brien, Reporting from Donetsk.
23. academia.edu: Ivan Katchanovski, The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigation.
24. Washington Post: Threat of Russian invasion of Ukraine tests Biden administration.
25. Russian & Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, Putin’s Plans for Ukraine.
26. Central Intelligence Agency: [PDF] Getting to Know the President. IntelliGence Briefings of Presidential candidates and Presidents-elect, 1952–2016. Chapter 9: Donald J. Trump–A Unique Challenge.
