RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#150 :: Monday, 16 September 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#159 :: Monday, 16 September 2019
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1. Russia Beyond: How Russia’s size has become its problem.
2. TASS: Empty pockets for a rainy day? Study shows over half of Russians have no savings.
3. Vesti.ru: Russia Reduces Alcoholism By 40% Within 10 Years Following Successful Public Health Campaign!
4. www.rt.com: World sleepwalking into total nuclear war as callous elites fear no bloodshed – Russian scholar. (Sergey Karaganov)
5. Vesti.ru: Medvedev Shreds Huge Stack of Soviet Laws, Proposes Big Changes at National Dialogue Meeting!
6. Opendemocracy.net: Alexander Zamyatin, An anatomy of defeat: what happened at the Moscow city elections. In Moscow, the people came to the ballot box and broke the back-room agreements of the elite.
7. Interfax: Activists from Navalny’s regional headquarters appeal court decision on FBK ‘1 bln’ money laundering case.
8. https://gilbertdoctorow.com: Gilbert Doctorow, Russian elections of 8 September: initial conclusions.
9. Moscow Times: Aaron Schwartzbaum, Russia’s Party System Is Falling Apart. Russia’s politics are growing harder to predict and harder to manage.
10. Paul Goble: Russian Officials have Contracted Dangerous Disease of ‘Putin Dependence,’ Popov Says.
11. The Hill: Joseph Dresen, Russians tune out Vladimir Putin.
12. The Economist: A warmer Russia. Why Russia is ambivalent about climate change.Climate focus: Global warming is not all bad, some Russians unfortunately reckon.
13. FAIR.org: Alan MacLeod, Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen.’ In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires
14. Reuters: Enough Oil in Global Stockpiles to Replace Lost Saudi Barrels: Russia.
15. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Zelenskiy looking for a breakthrough to end the Donbas conflict with Russia.
16. Interfax: Recognition of Steinmeier formula by Kyiv precondition of Normandy-format summit – political analyst.
17. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, The majority of Ukrainians think the country is going in the right direction for the first time in five years.
18. Asia Times: Mikhail Molchanov, Ukraine needs peace, not arms.
19. TASS: Izvestia: Russia, Ukraine still hammering out list for possible second prisoner swap.
20. TASS: Donbass elections possible only after troops pulled out, Zelensky says.
21. New York Times: Alisa Sopova, Where There Are Fish in the Tap Water and Women’s Uteruses Fall Out. Daily life in the forgotten war zone of eastern Ukraine. (excerpt)
22. TASS: Attempts to rewrite WWII history in the West will continue, says expert.
23. www.strategic-culture.org: Patrick Armstrong, The War – Again.
24. Wall Street Journal: Thomas Sherlock and John Gregory, A Sino-Russian Alliance? Don’t Bet On It. Students in Beijing and Moscow want to keep their neighbor at arm’s length. They also admire the U.S.
25. The National Interest: Kenneth Yalowitz and William Courtney, How Can the United States Support Democracies in the Former USSR. Democratic development in Eurasia must be organic, but targeted Western support for reforms could be most productive in these four countries.
26. http://johnhelmer.net: John Helmer, PUTIN ENDORSES NETANYAHU FOR RE-ELECTION – SHOIGU AND LAVROV REACT.
27. Meduza: ‘Tighter integration than the EU’. Details leak about new economic unification of Russia and Belarus.
28. www.craigmurray.org.uk: Craig Murray, The Magnitskiy Myth Exploded.
29. RFE/RL: Facebook Apologizes For Blocking Account of RT’s Chief Editor.
30. Sic Semper Tyrannis: Larry Johnson, Michael Flynn’s Motion to Compel Brady Evidence is Compelling. (excerpt)
31. https://taibbi.substack.com: Matt Taibbi, Latest Russian spy story looks like another elaborate media deception. The tale of Oleg Smolenkov is just the latest load of high-level BS dumped on us by intelligence agencies.
32. Consortiumnews.com: The Spy Who Failed. Scott Ritter probes Oleg Smolenkov’s role as a CIA asset and the use of his data by the director of the CIA to cast doubt over the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (excerpt)
