RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-135 :: Tuesday, 24 July 2018
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2018-#135
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
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1. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Russia Must Show Caution Now That It Has Publicly Sided With Trump. Having publicly entered internal U.S. politics, Russia must be prepared for various unpleasant surprises.
2. Foreignpolicy.com: Micah Zenko, Democrats Will Regret Becoming the Anti-Russia Party. Riling up the public against Moscow is good for Democrats in the short term-and bad for America.
3. TASS: Will Russia enjoy a rising population by 2036?
4. Meduza: Russian Communists push for a national referendum against raising the retirement age.
5. TASS: Russian prison system to investigate brutality cases following Yaroslavl scandal.
6. The Conversation: Brian Taylor, Putin the hero.
7. Financial Times: Sanctions reach far beyond Russia’s oligarchs. Struggles for mid-size groups illustrate broader effects of US and EU penalties.
8. TASS: NASA Administrator says space provides best opportunity for dialogue amid sanctions.
9. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Large Russian Companies Are Turning Inward. The mobile operator Megafon’s plan to delist in London is the latest sign that the West is becoming inhospitable.
10. TASS: Europe to pay 30% more for US LNG, Russia’s EU envoy warns.
11. www.rt.com: Putin orders construction of world’s longest bridge.
12. American Herald Tribune: Andrey Kortunov, Was Putin Not Generous Enough In Helsinki?
13. Valdai Discussion Club: Andrey Sushentsov, DONALD TRUMP AS CHAMPION OF SUMMITS. BEHIND THE WASHINGTON MAINSTREAM.
14. Creators.com: Patrick Buchanan, Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’?
15. Wall Street Journal: Walter Russell Mead, Putin Is Weak. Europe Doesn’t Have to Be. Moscow is a sideshow. The real dangers come from within the Continent.
16. Interfax: BRICS leaders to discuss expansion at summit in S. Africa – Kremlin aide.
17. www.strategic-culture.org: Patrick Armstrong, NATO Trumped. [strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/23/nato-trumped.html]
18. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar, Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia. A new book details why future historians may well identify Putin’s landmark March 1 speech as the ultimate game-changer in the 21st century New Great Game in Eurasia.
19. The Hill: Poll: Most Americans back Trump’s call for follow-up summit with Putin.
20. The Week: Matthew Walther, Why do Democrats want another Cold War?
21. https://talkingpointsmemo.com: Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities.
22. Popular Mechanics: How Roads Could Win or Lose a War With Russia.
23. Russia Insider: James Howard Kunstler, Trump Will Likely Win Against the Russiahoax, Only to Be Buried by a Market Meltdown.
24. New York Times: Read These 3 Books About Putin and Russian Interference in the 2016 Elections.
25. Washington Post: McFaul expected to meet with Trump’s top adviser on Russia at White House. (Fiona Hill)
26. Wall Street Journal editorial: The FBI’s FISA Faults. The documents show the bureau relied heavily on the Steele dossier.
27. New York Times: Trump Again Falsely Claims Russia Investigation Started With Steele Dossier.
28. The Blog Mire: Rob Slane, An Open Letter From a Salisbury Resident to Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu. (re Skripal affair) [theblogmire.com/an-open-letter-from-a-salisbury-resident-to-assistant-commissioner-neil-basu/]
29. www.rt.com: George Galloway, The plot thins: How gel became a liquid and the whole Novichok affair began to smell to high heaven. [rt.com/op-ed/434120-uk-skripal-case-novichok/]
30. The Unz Review: Philip Geraldi, Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World? The darling of the war party needs to answer some questions. [Text with links and comments: unz.com/pgiraldi/is-bill-browder-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/]
31. RFE/RL: Putin ‘A Cold-Blooded Killer,’ Says Kremlin Critic Browder.
32. http://theduran.com: Arkady Savitsky, US approves military assistance to Ukraine after Trump-Putin summit. Ukraine’s government says its military will meet NATO standards by or during the year 2020. [Text with links: theduran.com/us-approves-military-assistance-to-ukraine-after-trump-putin-summit/]
33. Jacobin Magazine: Sean Guillory, Richard Pipes, the Historian as Essentialist. For Richard Pipes, the anticommunist ideologue and historian, Soviet tyranny was rooted not in communism, but in the Russian soul.
