RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#130 :: Friday, 16 August 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#130 :: Friday, 16 August 2019
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1. The Independent (UK): Mary Dejevsky, The west has spent 20 years getting Putin wrong, and now it may be too late to get it right. I wonder if the Russian leader is edging past his peak; whether his sense of his country is now less sure.
2. Vedomosti: Russian commentary looks back at Putin’s 20-year rule. (Yuriy Saprykin)
3. Vedomosti: Paper says protests in Moscow no longer about election.
4. Moscow Times: A Student Arrest Puts Elite Moscow University to the Test. The Higher School of Economics, a bastion of free thinking since the 1990s, has become caught up in the opposition protest movement.
5. AFP: For Russia’s detained protesters, rights group is first on scene. (re OVD-Indo)
6. The Economist: Unbowed. Protests in Moscow show that Putin’s critics are getting stronger. Repression isn’t working like it used to.
7. Meduza: Moscow’s East-German scenario. Oppositionist Leonid Volkov explains how a daring new voting strategy is supposed to destroy Russia’s political monopoly.
8. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: 20 Years of Vladimir Putin: The Transformation of the Economy. EBRD Chief Economist Sergey Guriev on the two decade achievements and challenges of Putin’s economy.
9. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Russian expert warns of impending economic crisis. (Igor Nikolayev)
10. Bloomberg: Putin’s Iconoclastic Economics Guru to Lose Kremlin Post. (re Sergei Glazyev)
11. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Russia Tells Its Scientists to Steer Clear of Foreigners. With rules like this, Putin’s goal of reviving the glory of Soviet science is hardly achievable.
12. TASS: Every fifth Russian pays 30%-50% of total family income to loan – opinion poll.
13. Moscow Times: Russia’s FSB Publishes Foreign Worker Statistics for First Time in 20 Years.
14. TASS: Russian director Serebrennikov’s project cost more than budget funding, experts say.
15. www.rt.com: Over a barrel: Trump’s oil sanctions make Russian crude exporters $1 billion richer.
16. Financial Times: Mystery surrounds explosion at Russia military site. Chaotic response sparks speculation about secretive Skyfall nuclear project.
17. Forbes.com: Anna Mikulska, U.S. Sanctions Against Nord Stream 2 Pipeline: Strategic Hit Or Miss?
18. Vesti.ru: Lavrov at Youth Forum: Ecology and Demography Are Key Problems Facing Russia! – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3179320&cid=4441
19. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at the Terra Scientia National Educational Youth Forum, Solnechnogorsk, August 15, 2019. (excerpt) – mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3756067
20. Counterpunch: Jonathan Power, Russia and China are Growing Closer Again.
21. www.rt.com: US Navy expert laments ‘Slav’ incompetence of new NATO navies in scary Russia essay.
22. The Economic Times (India): Russia backs India as China takes Pakistani line at UN. Moscow has made it clear that the matter is bilateral in nature and UN has no role in it.
23. Indian Punchline: M.K. Bhaderakumar, Central Asian steppes mutely watch Taliban’s surge.
24. RFE/RL: U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine Says Russian Propaganda Hindering Peace Efforts.
25. Intellinews.com: More publications switch from Kiev to Kyiv and ignore the “chicken thing”
26. Ozy.com: HERE’S WHY UKRAINE’S FARMERS ARE SO FRIGHTENED.
27. Kyiv Post: New technique shows Putin lying about MH17. (excerpt)
28. Washington Examiner: New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism. (excerpt)
29. The American Conservative: Gareth Porter, U.S. States: We Weren’t Hacked by Russians in 2016. Shocker: the media ignores the fact there is no real evidence of election systems tampering.
30. Wall Street Journal: Kimberly Strassel, Fusion, the ‘Collusion’ Puppeteer. Bruce Ohr’s 302s, just released to the public, show Glenn Simpson pulling the strings.
[DJ: See also “The Unraveling of the Failed Trump Coup” by Larry C Johnson: turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/08/the-unraveling-of-the-failed-trump-coup-by-larry-c-johnson.html#more]

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