RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-187 :: Monday, 10 October 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#187
Monday, 10 October 2016
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1. Russia Insider/Komsomolskaya Pravda: Dmitry Olshansky, What Does the ‘Russian Aggressor’ Really Want?
2. BBC Monitoring: Russia’s Lavrov TV interview – newswire summary: Syria, US.
3. TASS: West’s expectations of Russia’s ‘shrinking’ after 1992 ended in hangover – Lavrov.
4. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One’s Vremya weekly news and analysis programme, broadcast on Sunday, Moscow, October 9, 2016.
5. www.rt.com: World on dangerous threshold’: Gorbachev warns of nuclear threat amid intl tensions.
6. Foxnews.com: Judith Miller, The scary truth about what Putin really wants (and Obama’s willful ignorance).
7. The Hill: Ariel Cohen, What Clinton and Trump need to know about Putin’s Russia.
8. Washington Post: George Will, Vladimir Putin is bringing back the 1930s.
9. Washington Post: Masha Gessen, Five myths about Russia.
10. Vedomosti: Paper previews possible debates in new Russian State Duma.
11. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Anna Politkovskaya murder: 10 years later, still no clear answers. The Novaya Gazeta newspaper is remembering its award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed 10 years ago in central Moscow. She became a symbol of Russian investigative journalism and although the government says her murder has been solved, her colleagues disagree, with the identity of the person who ordered the killing still a mystery.
12. Sean’s Russia Blog: Sean Guillory, Politkovskaya Ten Years On.
13. Paul Goble: Russians May Care Far Less about Foreign Agent Designations than Kremlin Thinks.
14. Washington Post: Please pass the Russian Parmesan: Cheesemakers celebrate sanctions, and hope they continue.
15. Russia Insider: Alexei Pankin, Report From the Meat Capital of Russia: Sanctions Worked! (Video). Part 1. RI’s correspondent visited the Belgorod region and came back saying that he saw the future and it works.
16. Russia Insider: Alexei Pankin, Belgorod’s Miracle: State Owned Land and a Society Based on Solidarity (Video). Part 2.
17. Wall Street Journal: Putin Signs Up to Global Efforts to Limit Oil Supply. Russian president hints that Russia might move to freeze or cut output.
18. TASS: Russians not buying high profile arrests as genuine fight against corruption – poll.
19. Carnegie Moscow Center: Andrey Movchan, How Does the Head of an Anti-Corruption Agency Wind Up With $120 Million in Cash? The $120 million in cash found in Dmitry Zakharchenko’s sister’s home must have come from some sort of illegal business activity-likely involving the contraband market.
20. Russia Insider: Paul Goncharoff, An Opportunity Not to Be Missed: Eurasia Is Integrating at Breathtaking Speed. Know thy markets and know thyself, and a thousand opportunites shall be yours.
21. Asia Times: Sergei Blagov, Russia sees new opportunities in Central Asia. Ties with Kazakhstan are stronger after President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Astana, while Uzbekistan now has a pro-Russian acting president.
22. Russia Direct: Nikolay Surkov, Why Russia-US cooperation in Syria is inevitable. The failure of the ceasefire in Syria and the worsening in Russia-U.S. relations are only temporary. Eventually the sides will have to come back to the negotiating table to address the crisis.
23. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia: We will shoot down U.S. jets in Syria that threaten our servicemen. The ministry believes that unsanctioned American strikes may result in the deaths of Russian officers. Russian military experts say that decisions to destroy unidentified airplanes will be made instantaneously.
24. Izvestia: Experts view Russia’s steps in case of US Plan B in Syria.
25. Indian Punchline: M K Bhadrakumar, Kerry’s sorrows are unspeakable.
26. Moon of Alabama: Syria – Is The U.S. Preparing A “False Flag” Bombing?
27. The Unz Report: The Saker, Russian Options Against a US Attack on Syria.
28. The National Interest: Rajan Menon, American Military Intervention Can’t Save Syria.
29. Department of Homeland Security: Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security.
30. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russian server head: Hacks on U.S. weren’t even worthy of Bond movie. The hackers who broke into U.S. Democratic Party files wrote in broken English and were extremely amateurish, the owner of the Russian company King Servers, from whose servers the attacks originated, told RBTH, whilst denying any involvement in the scandal.
31. Washington Post: Andrew Roth and David Filipov, U.S. hacking charges fail to impress Russians. They just think we hate them.
32. www.rt.com: Danielle Ryan, Neither Clinton nor Trump likely as Putin’s top choice for White House.
33. https://off-guardian.org: Bryan Hemming, Russians halt search for intelligent life in Washington.
34. RFE/RL: Brian Whitmore, The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past — Lenin.
35. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Key Neocon Calls on US to Oust Putin. A prominent neocon paymaster, whose outfit dispenses $100 million in U.S. taxpayers’ money each year, has called on America to “summon the will” to remove Russian President Putin from office. (Carl Gershman)
36. Valdai Discussion Club: Oleg Barabanov, WHAT IF THE USSR HADN’T COLLAPSED
37. AP: Ukrainian war prisoners languish in limbo on both sides.