RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#155 :: Monday, 23 September 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#155 :: Monday, 23 September 2019
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1. The National Interest: John Evans, The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin. It is common to ascribe America’s growing difficulties with Russia to President Vladimir Putin personally, but the sources of Russian discontent predate Putin’s presidency.
2. Sarah Lindemann-Komarova: Beyond the Choice of Change vs. Status Quo in Russia: One More Thing About the Elections.
3. Financial Times: Vladimir Putin urges cuts to red tape to unlock spending. Russian president lambasts government for slow progress on investment projects.
4. Moscow Times: Mark Galeotti, Future Without Putin No Longer Taboo Issue. The irony is that while Putin is active internationally and ubiquitous on the state media, the very scale and stridency of current elite debates reflect his political absence.
5. Vesti.ru: Top Defense Experts Have New Strategy! Nuclear Deterrent Not Enough to Keep Russia Safe! (with Sergey Karaganov) – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3191944&cid=4441
6. Moscow Times: Jake Cordell, Why Is Russia So Unproductive? Analysts say a toxic cocktail of state capitalism, corruption and low investment curbs output.
7. The Bell: The Bell analyzes the businessmen facing criminal charges this year.
8. Paul Goble: Shaman Story Overwhelms Russian Media, Highlighting Deep Problems among Russians and in the Kremlin.
9. Gizmodo.com: Why Moscow’s Climate Strike Turnout Was Devastatingly Small.
10. Bloomberg: The Cold Calculus Behind Putin’s Lukewarm Embrace of Paris Pact.
11. Kennan Institute: Maxim Trudolyubov, Guns, Butter, and Russia’s Enduring Power. (conversation with Michael Kofman)
12. Interfax: U.S. stance on arms control treaties makes world less secure – Russian defense minister.
14. The National Interest: Lyle Goldstein, Welcome to the Arctic Wars. Moscow does not fear Beijing’s keen interest in the Arctic and this may foreclose Washington’s plans to adopt a “wedge” strategy.
15. Indian Punchline: M.K. Bhadrakumar, Russia is auxiliary to US-India partnership, not balancer.
16. Strategic Culture Foundation Patrick Armstrong, Thinking the Unthinkable, Saying the Unsayable. – strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/21/thinking-unthinkable-saying-unsayable/
17. TASS: Kommersant: Trump-Zelensky talks put Ukraine at center stage in US presidential race.
18. The National Interest: Hunter DeRensis, Is the Trump Ukraine Controversy Much Ado About Nothing? A new brouhaha surrounds Donald Trump, the intelligence community and the conduct of foreign affairs.
19. The Hill: John Solomon, Missing piece to the Ukraine puzzle: State Department’s overture to Rudy Giuliani.
20. www.rt.com: Trump ‘fishing for election dirt’ in Ukraine bad, Trump hit by election dirt from Ukraine…forget? – rt.com/news/469331-trump-manafort-ukraine-dirt-digging/
21. London Review of Books: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Commotion in Moscow. (re To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd)
[DJ: See also johnhelmer.net/to-see-moscow-from-harvard-and-die-another-american-exceptionalist-history-of-russia/print/]
22. The Observer (UK): Beyond borscht: a food tour of Russia. There’s much more to Russian cuisine than sour cream, beetroot and dill, as this culinary journey from St Petersburg to Moscow proves.
