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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2021-#68 :: Thursday, 1 April 2021
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1. Valdai Discussion Club: Andrey Sushenstov, Team Biden’s Russian Policy: Major Differences From Trump’s Strategy – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/team-biden-s-russian-policy-major-differences-from/
2. Interfax: Moscow ready for joint work with Washington on int’l stability issues, not looking for confrontation – Lavrov.
3. Moscow Times: More Russian Doctors Trust Coronavirus Vaccine – Poll.
4. The Atlantic: Yasmeen Serhan, Here’s How Russia and China Are Helping the U.S.. Beijing and Moscow are filling the vaccine gap that wealthy countries helped create
5. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, INFLATING THE RUSSIAN THREAT – irrussianality.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/inflating-the-russian-threat/
6. rt.com: Paul Robinson, As London seeks to boost military spending, Telegraph obliges with ludicrous claims that Russia has military advantage over NATO – rt.com/russia/519713-military-advantage-nato-claims/
7. Le Monde diplomatique: Estelle Levresse, ‘Sitting on our suitcases waiting, for eleven years’. Russia’s eternal housing crisis. In the old USSR, housing was a guaranteed right. No longer. Privatisations, bankruptcies and construction scams have created a housing sector in which many feel cheated. It’s not surprising Russians are wary of taking on a mortgage.
8. Riddle: Foolproofing Putinism. Fabian Burkhardt on why Mikhail Mishustin might be one of the most ambitious Prime Ministers in recent Russian history.

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9. Bloomberg: Russia Wants to Keep a Stricter Eye on Its Anti-Putin Youth.
10. AP: Russia: Navalny on hunger strike to protest prison treatment.
11. Meduza: ‘Independent observers get in the way’. Meduza looks into the prisoners’ rights monitors who met with Navalny — and examines why these watchdog groups include so few human rights defenders – meduza.io/en/feature/2021/03/31/independent-observers-get-in-the-way
12. Gazeta.ru: “Rose-tinted glasses flew off me”: interview with ex-employee of Navalny’s headquarters. A former employee of Navalny’s headquarters has spoken about her work – gazeta.ru/politics/2021/03/29_a_13539818.shtml
13. rt.com: Russia to make Northern Sea Route cheaper than Suez Canal as country seeks to benefit from Ever Given blockage & climate change – rt.com/russia/519829-northern-sea-route-suez-alternative/
14. Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies: Maria Snegovaya, The taming of the shrew: How the West could make the Kremlin listen.
15. Counterpunch: Gary Leupp, Blinken to Germany: Stop Nord Stream II! – counterpunch.org/2021/04/01/blinken-to-germany-stop-nord-stream-ii/
16. Russia Matters: Erica Borghard, Punitive Response to SolarWinds Would Be Misplaced, But Cyber Deterrence Still Matters.
17. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: EUGENE RUMER, RICHARD SOKOLSKY, and PAUL STRONSKI, Russia in the Arctic — A Critical Examination. (excerpt)
18. Russia Beyond: Church weddings and divorces, Russian style – rbth.com/lifestyle/333612-church-weddings-and-divorces-russian-style
19. RFE/RL: Russia Warns Against Any Attempt To Start ‘New Ukraine War’
20. Financial Times: Tensions flare between Russia and Ukraine
21. RealClearInvestigations: Paul Sperry, Meet the Russiagate Prober Who Couldn’t Verify Anything in the Steele Dossier Yet Said Nothing for Years (excerpt)
22. Wall Street Journal: Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Like 2016, 2020 Isn’t Going Away. Our elections are racy, but meddling by intelligence officials shouldn’t be tolerated.
23. strategic-culture.org: Patrick Armstrong, They’re Not Even Trying to Make Sense Now – strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/31/theyre-not-even-trying-to-make-sense-now/
24. Washington Post: Isabelle Khurshudyan, Along Russia’s majestic Lake Baikal, the quest for tourism cash stalks a pristine landscape.

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