RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#135 :: Friday, 23 August 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#135 :: Friday, 23 August 2019
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1. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
2. www.rt.com: Putin orders ‘exhaustive’ response to US missile test, says Washington worked to breach INF. – rt.com/news/467125-putin-response-us-missile-test/
3. Wall Street Journal: Putin Orders ‘Symmetrical’ Response to U.S. Missile Test. Order comes after the Pentagon said it had tested a nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missile.
4. www.rt.com: World on verge of ‘uncontrolled arms race’ because of US – Russia’s UN envoy.
5. TASS: Future of humankind depends on arms control dialogue with US – Russian diplomat.
6. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Fury at elections snub brings Moscow’s professionals back to politics. Moscow’s urban professionals for many years have been willing to surrender political activism in exchange for material gains. But the protests roiling the city in recent weeks show a political reawakening.
7. Meduza: ‘Putin could shut us down with one little finger’ ‘Ekho Moskvy’ chief editor Alexey Venediktov lays out his storied career and insider insights.
8. Reuters: Aleksei Navalny, Released From Jail, Says Anti-Putin Protests Will Intensify.
9. Vedomosti: Gleb Pavlovsky, Twenty years of Vladimir Putin: Leader’s transformation. Danger of counting on leadership.
10. Opendemocracy.net: Gregory Asmolov, Protest technologies: can innovation change the balance of power in Russia? Russian civil society is becoming more effective with the help of technology. But how far does the solidarity created online go?
11. The Barents Observer (Norway): Barents Observer bypasses censorship wall, tunes in to Russian readers. We are countering censorship and finding a new way into Russia, says Editor Thomas Nilsen.
12. The National Interest: Akshobh Giridharadas, The Politics of Russia’s Primorsky Krai. Sitting nearly four thousand miles away from Moscow, Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai thinks and acts differently than its western countrymen.
13. Re “Russian Scientists Instructed to Report on Foreign Colleagues.”
14. TASS: PM Medvedev’s four-day work week plan backed by half of Russian public, poll reveals.
15. The Barents Observer (Norway): Gloom in horizon as Russia announces it will surge digging of coal. Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, the country says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of it will be extracted in new Arctic fields.
16. Wall Street Journal: Wildfires and Floods Push Russia to Revise Its Stance on Climate Change. Previously skeptical, government now aims to cap emissions, but opposition in energy sector remains strong.
17. TASS: Radiation levels did not increase after emergency at Severodvinsk testing range – envoy.
18. Sputnik: Kremlin Says Situation Like Chernobyl Hush-Up Impossible in Modern Russia.
19. www.rt.com: Earth’s final frontier: Russia’s floating nuclear power plant leaves for new Arctic home. – rt.com/business/467122-floating-nuclear-plant-arctic/
20. RFE/RL: Dubbed The ‘Nuclear Titanic,’ Russia’s First Floating Atomic Power Plant Sets Sail Amid Environmental Fears.
21. AFP: Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space.
22. TASS: Russia’s android robot tweets about test flight proceeding in normal mode.
23. The Calvert Journal: This sci-fi thriller has just become the first Russian show on Netflix Originals.
24. Russian International Relations Council: Alexander Kramarenko, A Europe whole and free: a utopia or, after all, a future? – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/a-europe-whole-and-free-a-utopia-or-after-all-a-future/
25. TASS: Izvestia: West’s China fears seen as driver for Russia’s G8 comeback.
26. Washington Post: David Ignatius, If Trump wants to invite Russia to the G-7, he needs to set some boundaries.
27. Valdai Discussion Club: Georgy Asatryan, Afghanistan at a Crossroads and Russia’s Interests. – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/afghanistan-at-a-crossroads-and-russia-s-interests/
28. Russia Beyond: Why did the USSR do a pre-WWII deal with Hitler? – rbth.com/history/330849-soviet-german-deal-molotov-ribbentrop-pact
29. TASS: Certain countries speculate on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact for political gains – expert.
30. RFE/RL: Molotov-Ribbentrop What? Do Russians Know Of Key World War II Pact?
31. TASS: RBC: Moscow, Kiev nearing deal on prisoner swap.
32. TASS: Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Trump’s alarm over China’s presence in Greenland sparked purchase bid.
33. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, THE GREENLAND CONNECTION.
[https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/the-greenland-connection/]