RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#137 :: Tuesday, 27 August 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#137 :: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
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1. RAND Corporation: Overextending and Unbalancing Russia. Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options. (excerpt)
2. Reuters: Russia’s Putin calls for rise in incomes, stronger economic growth.
3. Interfax: Russian economy could slip into recession in 2021, shrink by 0.6% if consumer lending growth does not slow – minister.
4. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: 20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Foreign Policy Has Changed. Dmitry Trenin on Russia’s successes abroad and why resisting NATO expansion to the east was a fundamental mistake.
5. Moscow Times/Vedomosti: Yury Saprykin, 20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Society Has Changed. From the thuggish philosophy of ‘Brat’ to a new social ideal: How Russian society is taking back ideology for itself.
6. Moscow Times: Evan Gershkovich, What Appeared to Be a United Opposition During Moscow’s Vote Protests Is Fraying – Again. A sudden switch in strategy by core opposition leaders has left some supporters confused.
7. Paul Goble: Putin Again Intimidates Russian Оpposition, Driving It intо Fratricide, Rоdin Says.
8. Foreign Policy Research Center: Vitali Shkliarov, Russia’s Opposition Protests: On the Road from Nowhere to Nowhere.
9. Transitions Online: The Long Walk. Videoblogging shaman walks to Moscow to ‘exorcise’ Putin, and expects to reach the Kremlin by 2021. (excerpt)
10. Vedomosti: Op-ed views problems with Russia’s healthcare system.
11. Interfax: Russia to decide on Magnitsky family’s compensation within 3 months – Justice Ministry.
12. www.project-syndicate.org: Alexander Gabuev and Elena Chernenko, What Russia Thinks About Multilateralism. While many in the West wring their hands over the plight of the postwar rules-based international order, it is often assumed that Russia would welcome a new era of unilateralism and great-power politics. But in reality, the Russian leadership’s perspective on multilateralism is more complicated than that.
13. TASS: G7 summit results reveal fragility of this format, says Russian expert.
14. AP: Macron pushes outreach to Russia, offers ‘balancing’ role.
15. Meduza: New Russian government data on August 8 explosion reveals that a nuclear reactor was definitely involved.
16. www.rt.com: Russian nuclear accident linked to weapons built ‘after US withdrawal from ABM Treaty’
17. www.rt.com: New anti-Russia sanctions lack previous vigor as ‘US is too busy with China’
18. TASS: Never applied for a visa: US senator on Russia’s blacklist and aware of it, says Moscow.
19. www.rt.com: What the new arms race will look like in a post-INF world.
20. Indian Punchline: M.K. Bhadrakumar, With eye on Trump, India scrambles for Russian support.
21. The National Interest: Lyle Goldstein, Is Hong Kong China’s Version of the Ukraine Crisis? The consequences of a violent crackdown in Hong Kong could be global.
22. RFE/RL: National-Security Adviser Bolton Arrives In Ukraine To ‘Underscore U.S. Support’
23. TASS: Pundits on Zelensky’s 100 days: “successful for him but not for Ukraine”
24. Carnegie Moscow Center: Konstantin Skorkin, Ukraine’s New President: Servant of the People, or Father of the Nation?
25. Al Jazeera: Mansur Mirovalev, Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices. Being blacklisted on Peacemaker can have serious consequences, including the risk of being killed.
26. TASS: Izvestia: Kiev, Moscow set to exchange prisoners before end of week.
27. The Federalist: Katya Sedgwick, My Childhood Schooling In The Soviet Union Was Better Than My Kids’ In U.S. Public Schools Today. Ask the people in our immigrant community why we moved to the United States, and hear again and again: ‘For the kids.’ Yet here we are, failing them in one of the most important ways.
28. Beyond Russia: Top 5 CIA operations against the Soviet Union.