RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-155 :: Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#155
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
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1. Russian Life: 43 Russian Patriots.
2. Russia Direct: New education minister, parliamentary elections and the anniversary of the August 1991 coup. Russian media roundup: Over the past week, Russian journalists focused on news and events that could impact the upcoming parliamentary elections, including the appointment of a new Minister of Education.
3. BBC Monitoring: Russian TV airs Duma campaign’s first election debate.
4. Moscow Times: Angry Farmers Stage Tractor March on Moscow.
5. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, In Russia, how one mainly Muslim region beat back radicalism. Tatarstan has had a problem with Islamic extremism. But the Russian republic has avoided the violence that consumed Chechnya, by both resisting Wahabbism and promoting its own native Muslim traditions.
6. www.rt.com: CAS upholds blanket ban on Russian Paralympic team imposed by IPC.
7. BBC Monitoring: Newspapers sum up Rio Olympics results.
8. RFE/RL: A Long Jump: Russia Claims Moral Victory From Rio Olympics.
9. Russia Direct: Alexander Korolev, Russia looks for ways to boost its role in Asia-Pacific. Major changes in international political paradigms are forcing Russia to join the economic development processes in the Asia-Pacific region.
10. Christian Science Monitor: Howard LaFranchi, One year on, Russia’s war in Syria is hardly the predicted ‘quagmire.’ US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan got bogged down by ambitious goals. In Syria, Russia has kept it simple and is gaining in influence in the region because of it.
11. Carnegie Moscow Center: Pavel Shlykov, Russian-Turkish Relations: Quick to Destroy, Slower to Mend.
12. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian airplanes leave Iran, but for how long? Tu-22M3 and Su-34 combat aircraft are no longer performing sorties into Syria from Iranian territory. Experts attribute the decision to a number of diplomatic and technical miscalculations on Moscow’s part and say the possibility remains for Russian aircraft to return.
13. Russia Direct: Getting the EU and EAEU on a path to economic cooperation. RD Interview: Dmitry Suslov of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow discusses different options for the peaceful coexistence of the EU and Eurasian Economic Union, arguing that the EU ultimately will have to build relations with the EAEU.
14. Reuters: James Bamford, Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA.
15. www.rt.com: Trump more psychopathic than Hitler, Oxford study finds.
16. http://pepperspectives.blogspot.ru: John Pepper, UNDERSTANDING PUTIN’S INTENTIONS AND THE RIGHT COURSE OF ACTION IN DEALING WITH RUSSIA.
17. Interfax: Poroshenko hopes to raise Ukrainian flag over Donetsk, Luhansk, Simferopol and Sevastopol over time.
18. Transitions Online: Russia’s Donbas ‘Buildup’: Threat or Bargaining Chip? Ukrainian leader warns of possible Russian invasion, while the Pentagon tries to inject a note of realism into increasingly tense debate.
19. Ron Paul Institute: Ron Paul, What Should We Do About Crimea?
20. Counterpunch.org: Halyna Mokrushyna, Political Writer, Daughter of Ukrainian Dissident, Detained and Charged in Ukraine.
21. http://jackpineradicals.com: Real News: The Entire US Media Lied About Ukraine.
22. Reuters: How a Ukrainian reform backfired, opening a new door to fraud.
23. Paul Goble: In Putin’s ‘Corporate Fascist State,’ Ideological Labels like ‘Liberal’ are Irrelevant, Inozemtsev Says.
24. European Leadership Network: Thomas Frear, NATO, Russia, and Empathy: Modern Lessons from a Cold War Military Exercise.