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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#111 :: Friday, 12 July 2019
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1. New York Times: American Commandos Gear Up for New Shadow War With Russia.
2. www.rt.com: ‘Children are not snakes’: RT doc highlights daily challenges of kids with HIV (VIDEO) – rt.com/russia/463958-children-hiv-documentary-rt/
3. www.vesti.ru: Putin Believes That Future of Clean Energy Lies With New Generation of Thermonuclear Power Plants. – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3167015&cid=4441
4. Bloomberg: Putin Seeks to Lock in Parliament Control.
5. Russia Matters: Nicholas Trickett, Russia’s FDI Outlook Grim, with No Chinese Rescue in Sight.
6. Moscow Times: Visa and Mastercard May Soon Exit Russia Under Draft Law – Reports.
7. TASS: Kommersant: New legislation may scare away global payment systems from Russia.
8. TASS: Visa ready to ensure system’s smooth operation in Russia.
9. Russia Observer: Patrick Armstrong, RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 11 JULY 2019. – patrickarmstrong.ca/2019/07/11/russian-federation-sitrep-11-july-2019/
10. TASS: US poet Julian Henry Lowenfeld receives Russian passport.
11. http://thesaker.is: Nick Byrne, Emigrating to Russia? Here are the observations of somebody who did it. – thesaker.is/emigrating-to-russia-here-are-the-observations-of-somebody-who-did-it/
12. Asia Times: Russia to build new ‘Silk Road’ linking China. Meridian highway will stretch over 2,000 km from the Belarus border to the Kazakhstan frontier.
12a. Russian International Affairs Council: Igor Ivanov, The Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a New World Order. – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/the-belt-and-road-initiative-towards-a-new-world-order/
13. Financial Times: Henry Foy, Why Chernobyl still divides Russia from the west. As nationalists rail against the HBO series, a deadly legacy persists in Ukraine’s disaster zone.
14. Valdai Discussion Club: Igor Istormin, Russia-NATO Council as the Last (Almost) Sacrament for INF Treaty. – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-nato-council-as-the-last–sacrament/
15. www.rt.com: Russia starts delivery of S-400 to Turkey as US ramps up pressure on Ankara over deal (VIDEO) – rt.com/news/463986-turkey-s400-parts-delivered/
16. Carnegie Moscow Center: Artyo Shraibman, All Talk, No Action on Russia-Belarus Integration.
17. AP: Georgia will ‘wait and see’ if Putin’s softer tone lasts.
18. The National Interest: Mark Episkopos, Moldova has Become a Geopolitical Battleground between Russia and the West. Transnistria cannot remain a kind of a “sovereign entity” over which the great powers politely agree to disagree.
19. TASS: Izvestia: Moscow, Kiev eye potential swap as goodwill gesture.
20. Kyiv Post: G7 ambassadors criticize Zelensky’s draft law on lustration.
21. Intellinews.com: Tim Ash, Ukraine poised for a new strong start after July’s elections.
22. www.strategic-culture.org: Eric Zuesse, The Obama Ukrainian Nightmare Seems to Be Ending, at Last. – strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/11/obama-ukrainian-nightmare-seems-to-be-ending-last/
23. TASS: About 600 NATO experts train Ukrainian military officers, says Russia’s envoy to OSCE
24. Breaking Defense: US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships.
25. Vesti.ru: The Third Great Russian: Alexander Zinoviev Completes Holy Trinity of 20th Century Thinkers. – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3167270&cid=4441
26. Counterpunch.org: Monika Zgustova, Russia and the Manipulation of the Past. – counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/russia-and-the-manipulation-of-the-past/
27. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, REHABILITATING STALIN. – irrussianality.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/rehabilitating-stalin/#more-4742
28. Interfax: Moscow warns London of possible reciprocal measures to UK media.
29. Sputnik: US Congress’ Russophobic Instincts’: Moscow Bashes US Proposal to Sanction Russia’s Sovereign Debt. – sputniknews.com/world/201907121076226001-us-sanctions-russia-sovereign-debt/
30. Sic Semper Tyrannis: Larry Johnson, Mueller Does Not Have Evidence That The IRA Was Part of Russian Government Meddling. – turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/07/mueller-does-not-have-evidence-of-russian-government-meddling-by-larry-c-johnson.html#more
31. Consortiumnews.com: Daniel Lazare, Concord Management and the End of Russiagate? A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has just shut down half of Robert Mueller’s Russian-interference case. – consortiumnews.com/2019/07/12/concord-management-and-the-end-of-russiagate/
32. www.rt.com: Robert Bridge, Russiagate conspiracy theory is dead, but will US-Russia relations ever recover? – rt.com/op-ed/463938-russiagate-election-meddling-mueller/
33. Reuters: Dasha Afanasieva, Review: The Struggle of Russia’s crony capitalists. (Anders Aslund)

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