RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#136 :: Monday, 26 August 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#136 :: Monday, 26 August 2019
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1. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Russia’s frozen relations with Europe start to thaw.
2. TASS: Kremlin says revival of G8 impossible without consensus among G7 nations.
3. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Daily sees no benefits of Russia’s possible return to G8.
4. Russia Beyond: What happens when permafrost melts? – rbth.com/science-and-tech/330868-permafrost-yakutia-summer-melting
5. Russia Beyond: Complete list of Russian regions. (excerpt) – rbth.com/travel/330843-list-of-russian-regions
6. TASS: Putin says slow growth of public’s real incomes raises concerns.
7. RFE/RL: Court Reinstates Navalny Team Leader In St. Petersburg To Municipal Vote Ballot.
8. RFE/RL: Hiding In Plain Sight: United Russia’s Bid To Distance Itself From Moscow Polls Falls Flat
9. Carnegie Moscow Center: Andrei Kolesnikov, Has Russia, Inc. Stalwart Chemezov Crossed the Barricades?
10. Novaya Gazeta: Kremlin seen ‘putting brakes’ on prosecution of protesters.
11. Paul Goble: Proposed Law Would Help Russians Hold Siloviki Accountable.
12. Paul Goble: ‘Russians Fully Reconciled to Capitalism’ and Don’t Want Socialism Back, Shelin Says.
13. Meduza: Boris Akopov’s ‘The Bull’ Why Russia’s latest film about the ‘wild 90s’ is dividing audiences.
14. AP: Russian agency reveals details of radiation after explosion.
15. The American Conservative: Scott Ritter, The Media’s Russian Radiation Story Implodes Upon Scrutiny. What really happened at Nenoska was less explosive than everyone, including Trump, wanted you to believe.
16. The News Daily (Australia): Russia’s closed cities hold the secrets to global nuclear disasters you’ve never heard of.
17. Interfax: Three Quarters of Nord Stream 2 completed – operator.
18. Oilprice.com: Will Europe Ever Shake Its Dependence On Russian Energy?
19. TASS: Last group of orcas continues journey to release site.
20. Awful Avalanche: More Russian Space News – Did Fyodor the Robot Screw Up? – Part I. – awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/more-russian-space-news-did-fyodor-the-robot-screw-up-part-i/
21. Awful Avalanche: More Russian Space News – Did Fyodor the Robot Screw Up? – Part II. – awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/more-russian-space-news-did-fyodor-the-robot-screw-up-part-ii/
22. Moscow Times: The U.S. Imposed New Sanctions Today on Russia. What Are They?
23. TASS: US sanctions won’t harm Russian economy more than trade wars, experts say.
24. TASS: Kommersant: Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry prepares for new wave of sanctions.
25. TASS: Izvestia: Moscow plans response to US missile threat.
26. TASS: Kremlin says refusal to prolong New START will be harmful for strategic stability.
27. Financial Times: Tony Barber, After two decades in power, Putin should heed the warning signs. Younger Russians have known no other ruler, and at least some of them are thirsty for change.
28. The New Kremlin Stooge: Mark Chapman, If Wishes Were Horses: Nina Khrushcheva’s Regime-Change Dream. – thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/if-wishes-were-horses-nina-khrushchevas-regime-change-dream/#more-355
29. Russian International Affairs Council: Olga Kulkova, What Russia Can Offer Africa.
30. South China Morning Post: China increases its presence in Russia’s former Central Asian backyard.
31. Vesti.ru: Was There Ever Really Any Doubt? 5 Years Later and Crimea is a Runaway Success!
32. Sic Semper Tyrannis: The FBI Tried and Failed to Entrap Donald Trump Using his Business Associate, Felix Sater. (excerpt)
33. Wall Street Journal: Ex-Trump Affiliate Secretly Worked With Prosecutors, FBI and CIA for Years. Russian-born businessman Felix Sater ‘went above and beyond’ in cooperating after facing fraud charges in 1998, unsealed letter shows.
34. Washington Examiner: Hundreds of pages of emails show Nellie Ohr researched Trump-Russia connections (excerpt)
35. National Review: The Bogus Story That Launched a ‘Collusion’ Probe. A minor functionary’s farcical encounter with a self-promoting schemer provided the excuse for an investigation.
36. The Epoch Times: It’s Time for Stefan Halper’s Actions to Be Fully Exposed.