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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2017-#7
Sunday, 8 January 2017

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1. Awful Avalanche: Best Wishes From Grandfather Frost and Snegurochka
2. Politico.com: The 1987 TV Miniseries That Predicted a Russian Takeover of America. Long since forgotten, ‘Amerika’ was a commercial and artistic flop. Watching it today makes for uncomfortable viewing.
3. Teen Vogue: Why Many People Believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is a Dictator.
4. New York Times: William Burns, How We Fool Ourselves on Russia.
5. Paul Goble: Kremlin Propaganda Effort Ever Less Effective on Russians, Surveys Show.
6. New York Times: Max Fisher, Russian Hackers Find Ready Bullhorns in the Media.
7. Politico.eu: Alexander Motyl, Vladimir Putin, war criminal. The Russian leader has a long record of inhumanity.
8. Foreign Affairs: Jeffrey Mankoff, Rapprochement on Russia’s Terms. Why It Won’t Work for the United States.
9. RAND Corporation: Beyond the Headlines: RAND’s Christopher Paul Discusses the Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood’
10. PBS Newshour: Russia’s election intervention is ‘new reality, new weapon’
11. The Guardian (UK): Nick Cohen, Russian treachery is extreme and it is everywhere.
12. The New Yorker: David Remnick, TRUMP, PUTIN, AND THE BIG HACK.
13. Washington Post: Obama: I didn’t underestimate the threats from Vladimir Putin.
14. The Guardian (UK): UK intelligence gave US key tipoff about Russian hacking, report says.
15. Reuters: U.S. military vows more complex training in Europe to deter Russia.
16. Washington Post: David Filipov, Russians dismiss U.S. report accusing Putin as ‘one more giant fake’
17. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, FACT AND COMMENT. (re intelligence report)
18. Medium: Michael Tracey, There Is Still No Hard Evidence For “Russian Hacking”
19. Facebook: Fred Weir, Merry Christmas RT.
20. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, How RT became the star of CIA, FBI & NSA’s anticlimactic ‘big reveal’
21. Awful Avalanche: Margarita Simonyan Responds to Clapper’s Accusations.
22. Foxnews.com: Fred Fleitz, Was Friday’s declassified report claiming Russian hacking of the 2016 election rigged?
23. www.emptywheel.net: Marcy Wheeler, THE DECLASSIFIED RUSSIAN HACK REPORT.
24. Andrei Liakhov: A DEEP DIVE INTO THE OBAMA RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN DNC HACK (AND THEFT AND HARASSMENT)

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