RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#169 :: Tuesday, 22 October 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#169 :: Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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1. Facebook: Fred Weir, Podcast with Marlene Laruelle. “Understanding Russian Interference Through a Russian Lens”
2. DJ: Who has better political talk shows, Russia or the US? Check it out. БОЛЬШАЯ ИГРА – Great game.
3. Russia Beyond: Is Russia really a European civilization?
4. Interfax: Russia’s historical mission is to keep Europe from attempts to make ‘Brave New World’ on Earth – Naryshkin.
5. TASS: Kremlin unaware of plans to expand list of ‘foreign agent’ media outlets.
6. Interfax: Rights activists call for abolishing foreign-agent NGO law.
7. Interfax: New HRC head Fadeyev wants to ask law enforcement agencies why petitions of aggrieved parties at rallies left unanswered.
8. RFE/RL: Putin Pushes Critical Voices Out Of Russia’s Human Rights Council.
9. Interfax: Reshuffles affect Russia’s HRC strongly – rights defenders.
10. Interfax: New Russian Human Rights Council head says plans to involve predecessor in council’s work.
11. Meduza: Shklyarov: It’s been 20 years, democrats, but you’re not yet ready for the big time.
12. Meduza: Navalny vs. Fukuyama. Russia’s top anti-corruption activist takes on the American political scientist who wrote ‘The End of History’
13. Moscow Times: Russia Named World’s Most Unequal Economy.
14. Moscow Times: Russia Has More New Malls Than Anywhere Else in Europe.
15. Moscow Times: Most Russian Families Can Only Afford Food and Clothes.
16. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Most Foreign Capital Flowing Into Russia Stock Market Is American.
17. TASS: Sanctions adversely affected work of 62% of foreign companies in Russia.
18. www.rt.com: Golden shield: Russian bullion reserves will protect country against slump in oil prices.
9. The Barents Observer “Shelf is ours”. The Russian Ministry of Defense says it has obtained comprehensive new proof that supports its claims on the Arctic shelf.
20. Wall Street Journal: George P. Shultz, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn, Open Skies Help Keep the Peace With Russia. Ike’s idea, codified in a 1992 treaty, is still a good one. The U.S. shouldn’t abandon the pact.
21. PONARS Eurasia: Mikhail Troitskiy, Statecraft Overachievement: Sources of Scares in U.S.-Russian Relations.
22. RAND publication: Envisioning a Revised Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia.
23. TASS: Kommersant: Moscow, Ankara to discuss Turkey’s military operation in Syria.
24. Wall Street Journal: Erdogan Seeks Putin’s Support to Carve Out Syrian Buffer Zone. Meeting his Russian counterpart in Sochi, the Turkish president wants the Kremlin’s help to drive Kurdish forces away from Turkey’s border.
25. Valdai Discussion Club: Galip Dalay, Turkey-Russia in the Post-US Syria: Can They Manage Their Differences?
26. Valdai Discussion Club: Kirill Semyonov, US-Turkey Deal on Northern Syria Limits Assad’s Success.
27. Financial Times: Putin seeks friends and influence at first Russia-Africa summit. Moscow to host 40 leaders from continent in pursuit of allies and trading partners.
28. Paul Goble: Belarus Even Greater Challenge to Russian Mentality than Ukraine has Been, Shevtsova Says.
29. http://thesaker.is: The Saker interviews Michael Hudson. (re Baltic states)
30. TASS: 55 attacks on journalists registered in Ukraine since early 2019.
31. Facebook: Volodymyr Ishchenko, Re “How to Mainstream Neo-Nazis: A Lesson from Ukraine’s New Government – bellingcat”
32. TASS: Russian jailed in US to return home in three days after her release on October 25 (Maria Butina)
33. www.rt.com: Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Tulsi Gabbard sow more Democratic division than Moscow could ever dream of. (excerpt)
34. Moscow Times: Mark Galeotti, Putin’s ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Those Who Call Others ‘Useful Idiots’. Those accusing Tulsi Gabbard of being a Kremlin asset should take a long hard look in the mirror.
35. Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi, Everyone Is a Russian Asset. America laughed at Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Tulsi Gabbard, but her ideas fit perfectly in the intellectual mainstream.
36. www.rt.com: Top secret: Declassified files tell dramatic story of how first Soviet atomic bomb was made (PHOTOS)
37. Variety: How ‘Catherine the Great,’ ‘Chernobyl’ Challenge the Hollywood Script on Russia.
38. Russia Beyond: Why HBO’s ‘Catherine the Great’ is absolutely worth your time.