RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#140 :: Monday, 2 September 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#140 :: Monday, 2 September 2019
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1. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, The Kremlin, the Chaos Theory, and the Bread Crumb Theory.
2. Moscow Times: Mark Galeotti, Why I Talked to RT. The people we need to engage with are those who don’t agree with us, who don’t share our sense of the world.
3. Valdai Discussion Club: Timofei Bordachev, Russia’s Turn to the East and the New Geopolitical World. – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/turn-to-the-east-and-the-new-world-geopolitics/
4. Vesti.ru: Russia Celebrates Special Holiday! Millions of Children Heading Back to School September 1st! – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3184853&cid=4441]https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3184853&cid=4441
5. www.rt.com: Russia’s Election Commission says AP misquoted its chief, distorted facts in Moscow election story – rt.com/russia/467762-ap-moscow-elections-commission-pamfilova/
6a. RFE/RL: Moscow Protest Couple Allowed To Keep Children.
7. Forbes.com: James Rodgers, Prospect Of Protest Means Russia’s Political Climate May Not Cool This Fall.
8. PONARS Eurasia: Andrei Shcherbak, When Conservatism and Nationalism Form the Spurs of Kremlin Ideology.
9. The Barents Observer (Norway): Governor of Murmansk to Putin: Our strategically important region deserves better. We have run-down healthcare, dramatic out-migration and unsatisfactory living conditions for our armed forces, says Andrey Chibis as he sits down with the President.
10. Financial Times: Russians sceptical of Putin’s grand projects as economy founders. Kremlin struggles to keep its promises on infrastructure spending.
11. TASS: Positive effects on Russia’s economic growth unlikely to happen overnight, says minister.
12. TASS: Even oil price of $40 per barrel unlikely to seriously affect Russian economy – minister.
13. RFE/RL: After The Orphanage: Russian NGO Provides Lifeline For Orphans Finding Their Way.
14. Russia Beyond: Beslan, the horrific small town tragedy that changed the lives of a whole nation. – rbth.com/society/2014/09/01/beslan_10_years_on_39439.html
15. Moscow Times: Tanya Lokshina, Remembering Beslan 15 Years Later. For the nightmare of Beslan never to be repeated, its lessons must be learned.
16. Sputnik: Pure Façade: How US Continues Buying ‘Made in Russia’ Goods Despite Sanctions – sputniknews.com/business/201908291076646070-pure-facade-how-us-continues-buying-made-in-russia-goods-despite-sanctions/
17. Awful Avalanche: Russians and Tatars: A Complicated History – Part I – awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/russians-and-tatars-a-complicated-history-part-i/
18. Moscow Times: Russia’s Mystery Nuclear Explosion Occurred During Missile Recovery at Sea – Reports.
19. TASS: Izvestia: Russia’s intel chief blasts US for deliberately destroying collective security system.
20. Xinhua (China): Tackling political challenges, Russia charts path of development – xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/31/c_138354133.htm
21. www.rt.com: Bolton visits Ukraine, Belarus & Moldova, should Moscow be worried? – rt.com/news/467650-bolton-belarus-visit-moscow/
22. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Foreign investors’ interest in Ukraine is picking up.
23. New Cold War: Dmitriy Kovalevich, August update: same war against opposition media; ban on oldest Ukrainian unionist newspaper. (excerpt) – newcoldwar.org/august-update-same-war-against-opposition-media-ban-on-oldest-ukrainian-unionist-newspaper/
24. Postsocialism: Jeremy Morris, A Day of Knowledge – Topic-based teaching of Russian Current Affairs. (excerpt) – postsocialism.org/2019/09/01/a-day-of-knowledge-topic-based-teaching-of-russian-current-affairs/
25. National Review: Andrew McCarthy, Trump Was Always the Target of the Russia Investigation.
26. Reuters: Kremlin critic wants film to open West’s eyes about Putin’s Russia.

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