RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-203 :: Tuesday, 1 November 2016

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#203
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
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1. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, Russia and the West: What Does “Equality” Mean?
2. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the Rossiya 1 television network documentary entitled “My mind is set: Yevgeny Primakov”, Moscow, October 31, 2016.
3. Russia Direct: Andrei Tsygankov, From Valdai with a message of confidence and reform. Russia is ready to move forward both economically and politically – but on its own terms, and according to its own interests, priorities and values.
4. BBC Monitoring: Russian press mull prospects of Russia’s reconciliation with West.
5. Carnegie Moscow Center: Three Dimensions: Is the Break Between the Kremlin and the West Permanent? (with Fyodor Lukyanov, René Nyberg, and Angela Stent)
6. http://theduran.com: James Bradley, Where are Moscow’s potholes? The Western image of Moscow and Russia as violent and impoverished is a fantasy. Moscow is actually a very safe, well run and orderly city, which compares very well with the great cities of the West.
7. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Cultural figures stand up for artistic freedom in Russia. Prominent figures from Russia’s art world are accusing the state of reintroducing censorship following a series of high-profile scandals in which conservative groups have forced the closure of exhibitions and performances. The state replies that it has the right to influence the contents of an artistic creation if it was commissioned by the government.
8. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations.
9. www.rt.com: Putin orders Law on Russian Nation to counter ethnic strife.
10. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Russia slashes military spending as revenues shrink. The protracted slump in oil prices mean the government is no longer able to finance its reform of the defense industry at previous levels.
11. Nature editorial: Russian science at the crossroads. Upheaval in the former superpower is bad for research and the wider world.
12. Reuters: Factbox: How Russia is ramping up its oil output in 2016-2017.
13. Interfax: Russian oil reserves reach 29.4 bln tonnes since Jan 2015, gas reserves – 70.3 trln cu m.
14. Oilprice.com: The Beginning Of The End For Europe’s Natural Gas War.
15. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Can Russia build a tech-based economy? When over 13,000 entrepreneurs and investors last week visited the Open Innovations forum just outside of Moscow, concerns arose about the pace of technological advances in Russia.
16. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Russia’s Funny Privatization.
17. www.rt.com: Steel tycoon new richest Russian.
18. TASS: Russia hasn’t used warplanes in Syria’s Aleppo for 16 days – defense minister
19. TASS: Analyst says US presidential election unlikely to change rules in geopolitical game. (Valery Garbuzov)
20. TASS: Security Council chief regrets Russia listed among main threats to US national security.
21. China Daily: Dmitri Trenin, Three powers will shape future state of world.
22. Russia Matters: Nikolas Gvosdev, Obama’s Russia Policy: A Post Mortem and Lessons for the Next President.
23. Russia Matters: Thomas Graham, Toward a New Russia Policy for America.
24. Counterpunch.org: Mike Whitney, How Putin Derailed the West.
25. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Rakesh Krishnan Simha, Arming the giants: Russia’s balancing act with India and China. As the Asian giants splurge on big-ticket Russian weapons, Moscow must ensure the two sides do not feel threatened by each other’s acquisitions.
26. Russia Direct: Archil Sikharulidze, The Russian factor in Georgia-Ukraine relations. After a brief period in which both Ukraine and Georgia appeared to be united against Russia, it now appears that the two nations are moving along very different paths.
27. Reuters: Ukrainians shocked as politicians declare vast wealth.
28. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Ukraine’s Millionaire Officials Come Out of Hiding.
29. Interfax: European integration leading Ukraine to collapse – Medvedchuk.
30. New York Times: Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia.
31. Washington Post editorial: Trump and Putin share a frightening worldview. The GOP nominee and the Russian president have an uncanny way of echoing each other’s words.