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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2021-#32 :: Thursday, 10 February 2022
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1. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of Council for Science and Education – en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/67740
2. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of judges of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts – en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/67743
3. rt.com: Evgeny Tugolukov, Russia moving on from long-running policy of just extracting mineral wealth. A number of new initiatives show a break with the country’s long-running policy of just extracting mineral wealth. – rt.com/russia/548796-getting-serious-protect-environment/
4. Russia International Affairs Council: Andrey Melville and Ivan Timofeev, Russia in 2020: Alternative Scenarios of the Near Future (excerpt) – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/russia-in-2020-alternative-scenarios-of-the-near-future/
5. Financial Times: In Siberia, a crypto boom made of ingenuity, defiance and DIY. Fuelled by cheap electricity and Chinese hardware, households across the region are furiously mining cryptocurrency as a crackdown looms.
6. Poltico.com: Alexander Dynkin and Thomas Graham, How to End the Ukraine Crisis in 4 Steps. Two former top policymakers — one Russian, one American — have a plan they think could work.
7. Al Jazeera: Harun Yilmaz, No, Russia will not invade Ukraine. A large-scale military operation does not fit into Moscow’s cost-benefit calculus.
8. Indian Punchline: M.K. Bhadrakumar, Moscow confronts ‘good cop, bad cop’
9. https://peterbeinart.substack.com: Peter Beinhart, Biden’s CIA Director Doesn’t Believe Biden’s Story about Ukraine.
10. Washington Times: Edward Lozansky, Today’s tragicomedy threatens to burn down the world stage.
11. Commonweal: Andrew Bacevich, A Mournful Legacy. Ukraine and the recovery of moral realism.
12. rt.com: Russia’s Lavrov unhappy after talks with UK’s Truss. Moscow’s top diplomat hit out at a lack of mutual understanding following negotiations with his British counterpart. – rt.com/russia/548904-uk-moscow-talks-lavrov/
13. strategic-culture.org: Pepe Escobar, “Do You Want a War Between Russia and NATO?” Without deeper understanding of Chinese and Russian civilizations, and their way of thinking, Westerners simply are not equipped to get it. – strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/09/do-you-want-a-war-between-russia-and-nato/
14. Washington Post: David Ignatius, The crisis in Ukraine is one for the history books.
15. Asia Times: Joseph Nathan, The follies of US, UK in Russia-Ukraine conflict. As their approval ratings sag, Biden and Johnson resort to Cold War-era warmongering.
16. Washington Post: The Ukrainian language is having a moment. To Putin’s ears, it’s a shot against Russian speakers.
17. Intellinews: Leonid Ragozin, What is Zelenskiy afraid of? Western media is in a feeding frenzy over the possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine, but on-the-ground Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy seems remarkably calm about the prospects of an invasion. That is partly because he has other fish to fry. – intellinews.com/ragozin-what-is-zelenskiy-afraid-of-234368/?source=russia
18. The Guardian (UK): Bernie Sanders, We must do everything possible to avoid an enormously destructive war in Ukraine.
19. The Scrum: Marshall Auerback and Patrick Lawrence, “The world just turned.” Ukraine and the Putin–Xi statement.
20. The Mirror (UK): U.S. spies teach Ukraine forces covert ops as tensions soar over Russian invasion fears.
21. Foreign Affairs: Andrei Kolesnikov, Would Russians Embrace War? Why an Attack on Ukraine Might Erode Putin’s Support.
22. Antiwar.com: Danny Sjursen, ‘I Know You Are But What Am I’: Russia’s Ready Response to US Africa-Alarmism. – original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2022/02/09/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i-russias-ready-response-to-us-africa-alarmism/
23. Dances With Bears: THE WAR IN MALI — THE SEMI-OFFICIAL RUSSIAN BACKGROUNDER TO THE PUTIN-MACRON DISCUSSION – johnhelmer.net/the-war-in-mali-the-semi-official-russian-backgrounder-to-the-putin-macron-discussion/print/
24. NYU Jordan Center: Anastasia Kriachko Roeren, Documenting Nation: Why Watching TV Documentaries Matters in Russia Today.

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