RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2018-15 :: Monday, 22 January 2018
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2018-#15
Monday, 22 January 2018
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1. Washington City Paper: How Are D.C.’s Russian Restaurants Faring in the Face of Tense U.S.-Russia Relations?
2. Gaidar Forum: Gaidar Forum experts analyze political trends and share forecasts.
3. The National Interest: Nikolas Gvosdev, Russia’s Presidential Election Runs Into Reality. Russians-and the world-will wake up on March 19 to find that not much has changed. But the clock counting down towards domestic and international crises will be running.
4. www.rt.com: ‘Of course Putin gets nervous, he is human’ – Press Secretary Peskov.
5. Between Two Worlds: The “Art” of an American Surviving in Small Town Russia: Hal Freeman, VLADIMIR PUTIN: THE EARLY YEARS.
6. Vesti.ru: Putin Visits Massive Graveyard Where His Family Was Buried During the Great Siege of Leningrad. Video: https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2978827&cid=4441
7. Washington Post: After Putin’s icy dip, U.S. ambassador tries shirtless diplomacy.
[DJ: See also “U.S. Ambassador plunges into ice hole during Epiphany celebrations in Russia” https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/327323-us-ambassador-plunges-ice-hole]
8. The Times of Israel: Liberal Jewish politician emerging as main opposition challenger to Putin.With Alexei Navalny disqualified, long-time reformer Grigory Yavlinsky has b ecome most well-known figure running against Russian leader.
9. Meduza: Ksenia Sobchak has the signatures she needs to join Russia’s presidential race.
10. The Sunday Times (UK): Ksenia Sobchak, the It girl out to topple Putin. A former reality TV star insists she is no stooge of the president as she tours Russia stirring up support for a tilt at his crown.
11. www.rt.com: Constitutional Court crushes Navalny’s presidential ambitions.
12. Novaya Gazeta: Russian columnist criticises Navalny over row with Sobchak. (Yuliya Latynina)
13. Paul Goble: Russian Reformers Failed to Take into Consideration Russian Nationalism and Orthodoxy, Chubais Says.
14. Bear Market Blog: Tatiana Stanovaya, Friends in the New Term: What Awaits Putin’s Associates After 2018? Five rules for the state oligarchy.
15. www.rt.com: Russian ruble prepared for global expansion as dollar dependency drops.
16. Vesti.ru: Goldman Sachs: Russian Economy Is Doing Better Than Government Acknowledges. [Video: https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2978925&cid=4441]
17. CNN.com: Russia faces 6 more years of stagnation under Putin.
18. Gaidar Forum: Russian Tax System: Vision of the Future discussion at Gaidar Forum.
19. www.rt.com: Russian gold reserves hit historic high, stockpiling record 223 tons last year.
20. Bear Market Brief: How to sanction-proof an economy.
22. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, Russian Propaganda Machine: Much Ado About Little as Compared with Western Stratcomm (UPDATE) (excerpt)
23. Washington Post: A Sundance filmmaker has made a movie about the Russian propaganda machine, and it is terrifying.
24. www.rt.com: Wish I had direct line with Putin, but I don’t – RT Editor-in-Chief.
25. AP: Head of Russian Outlet RT Says US Foreign Agent Order Hurts.
26. PONARS Eurasia: Kimberly Marten, Explaining Russia’s Schizophrenic Policy toward the United States.
27. Russiafeed.com: Alexander Mercouris, Is Russia the safest country in Europe for Jews? Norwegian study confirms far lower incidents of anti-semitic violence in Russia than France, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. http://russiafeed.com/confirmed-russia-safest-country-jews-europe/
28. AFP: Russia says West’s ‘Russiaphobia’ worse than during Cold War. Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moscow has ‘red lines’ that should be respected.
29. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant newspaper, January 21, 2018.
30. Russian International Affairs Council: Mark Entin and Ekaterina Entina, Concepts of Uncertainty and the Collision with Reality. http://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/concepts-of-uncertainty-and-the-collision-with-reality-/
31. Wall Street Journal: Talks to Test Russian Stance on Ukraine. U.S. officials say outreach will explore whether Moscow wants to warm ties with the West and reduce economic pressure.
32. http://usforeignpolicy.blogs.lalibre.be: Gilbert Doctorow, The coming Russia-Ukraine War: update and analysis.
33. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, A New Peace Effort Is Needed in East Ukraine. A new Ukrainian law recognizes the demise of the Minsk agreements. This shouldn’t be the end of the road.
34. Valdai Discussion Club: WESTERN HISTORIANS: REVOLUTION OF 1917 IS ONE OF THE MAIN EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
35. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Centenary of the Bolshevik Usurpation http://www.unz.com/akarlin/centenary-of-the-bolshevik-usurpation/
36. Wall Street Journal: Wm. Roger Louis, Review: Exit Russia, Enter America. In 1917 many exhausted world leaders believed the bitter fighting could easily drag on into 1920.
37. Sputnik: Busted! List of Upcoming Elections Russia Will Definitely Meddle In.
38. New York Times: Christy Wampole, What Is the Future of Speculative Journalism? It is neither true nor false. Perhaps that’s what we like about it.
39. Washington Post: In the crowd at Trump’s inauguration, members of Russia’s elite anticipated a thaw between Moscow and Washington.
40. New York Times: Republicans Claim Surveillance Power Abuses in Russia Inquiry.
41. Reuters: Twitter to Notify Users Exposed to Russian Propaganda During U.S. Elections.
42. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE CIA BULL IN GLENN SIMPSON’S RUSSIA SHOP.
43. New York magazine: Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Does This Man Know More Than Robert Mueller?. Glenn Greenwald’s war on the Russia investigation. (excerpt)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/glenn-greenwald-russia-investigation.html
