RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-117 :: Friday, 24 June 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#117
Friday, 24 June 2016

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1. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Fyodor Lukyanov, Do Russia and the West really need a pseudo-ideological confrontation?
2. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, NOT SO DOOMED: RUSSIA IN 2018.
3. Canadian Security Intelligence Service: 2018 Security Outlook. Potential Risks and Threats. (section on Russia)
4. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexey Arbatov, Q&A. Russian Foreign and Security Policy.
5. TASS: US think tank: Russia’s authorities can do a lot to accelerate economic growth.
6. RAND Corporation: Russia’s Medium-Term Economic Prospects.
7. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russian Inflation Is (Mostly) Back To Normal.
8. Sputnik: Russian Food, Agricultural Exports Hit Record High Over Last Few Months.
9. www.rt.com Dmitry Babich, Unwise Obama policy pushes China and Russia closer together.
10. US-Russia Business Council: EU Sanctions Extension May Be Delayed.
11. TASS: Russia not happy with economic consequences of Brexit – PM. (Medvedev)
12. www.rt.com: Putin on Brexit: No one wants to support weak economies.
13. www.rt.com: Top senator warns of Brexit’s potential negative effect on Russia. (Konstantin Kosachev)
14. Valdai Discussion Club: Richard Sakwa, BLIMEY, IT’S BREXIT.
15. TASS: Ex-US envoy in Russia calls Putin winner following Brexit referendum. (McFaul)
16. Russia Direct: What to expect from Putin’s visit to China? While the agenda of the two-day meeting between the heads of Russia and China has not yet been made public, experts from the Russian International Affairs Council speculate on what Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to accomplish.
17. Russia Direct: Alexey Khlebnikov, ‘Media hostility’ is the latest buzzword in Russia-West information war. Russian and Western think tanks are taking a closer look at the media narratives being propagated by the other side. Not surprisingly, Russian experts point to the bias in Western narratives, while Western experts point to disinformation in Russian narratives.
18. Russia Observer: Patrick Armstrong, RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 23 JUNE 2016.
19. Russia Insider: William Wedin, The Importance of Putin’s Remarks on Judo to Understanding The Man and His Goals.
20. Paul Goble: New Anti-Terrorist Acts Means Kremlin is Preparing for War at Home and Abroad, Ponomarev Says.

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