RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#170 :: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#170 :: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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1. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall Pew poll finds progress but a values fault line lies across Europe.
2. Vesti.ru: Soviet Nostalgia! Around One in Four Russians Believe That Perestroika Ruined Their Lives! – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3202663&cid=4441
3. RFE/RL: Critics Warn Of A Backslide After Putin Reshuffles Human Rights Council.
https://www.rferl.org/a/critics-warn-of-a-backslide-after-putin-reshuffles-human-rights-council/30230912.html
4. TASS: Russian penitentiary service explains why number of convicts, arrestees goes down.
5. Interfax: Corruption ‘serious problem’ for 81 per cent of Russians – poll.
6. Meduza: Bullshitting Russia A new government media report says half of Western reporting about Russia is ‘negative.’ It turns out that a single tabloid journalist writes a lot of it. (excerpt)
7. The National Interest: Daniel DePetris, RIP: The Era of Arms Control Is Over. There are no if’s, and’s, or but’s about it: the era of arms control is slowly unraveling underneath our noses. And U.S. national security officials don’t appear to have any intention of doing much to stop it.
8. Kennan Institute: Maxim Trudolyubov, Has Russia Discovered a New Foreign Policy Template? An Interview with Angela Stent.
9. The Unz Review: Max Perry, The EU Is Rewriting WWII History to Demonize Russia. (excerpt) – unz.com/article/the-eu-is-rewriting-wwii-history-to-demonize-russia/
10. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, The Future of the Middle East: Horizons of Challenges and Opportunities. -russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/the-future-of-the-middle-east-horizons-of-challenges-and-opportunities/
11. Financial Times: Russia looks to translate Gulf’s warm welcome to cold cash. Vladimir Putin wants to capitalise on country’s increasing clout in region.
12. www.rt.com/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Fyodor Lukyanov, The paradox of Syria: What to expect next from key players – rt.com/op-ed/471570-syria-war-russia-us-turkey/
13. Meduza: Losing to Putin. How Turkish President Erdogan got what he wanted from Washington but settled for far less from Moscow.
14. TASS: Ankara: Pause in Operation Peace Spring does not mean Turkey exiting Syria.
15. TASS: If Kurds fail to withdraw, they will be crushed by Turkish military machine, Kremlin warns.
16. Asia Times: Pepe Escobar, Vladimir Putin, Syria’s pacifier-in-chief. Russia-Turkey deal establishes ‘safe zone’ along Turkish border and there will be joint Russia-Turkey military patrols.
17. www.rt.com: Turks appeased, Kurds saved, US gets breathing space: ‘Russia takes on job that US failed at’ in Syria – rt.com/news/471638-russia-turkey-deal-winners/
18. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE SULTAN BLINKED, THE TSAR AGREED TO CLOSE HIS EYES – THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE EXPANDS BY 118 KILOMETRES OF SYRIA. (excerpt) – johnhelmer.net/the-sultan-blinked-the-tsar-agreed-to-close-his-eyes-the-ottoman-empire-expands-by-118-kilometres-of-syria/print/
19. The Guardian (UK): Olga Oliker, Russia has been playing a canny game in the Middle East, but can it continue?. Putin’s deal with Turkey is the latest in a smart power-broking strategy that will soon be tested to its limits.
20. Valdai Discussion Club: Vladimir Shubin, Russia-Africa Summit: Future-Oriented Agenda. – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-africa-summit-future-oriented-agenda/
21. Brookings: Landry Signe, Vladimir Putin is resetting Russia’s Africa agenda to counter the US and China.
22. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Zelenskiy’s election promises run aground amid lack of progress on Normandy Four and IMF deals.
23. TASS: US hinders Ukraine-Russia gas relations to supply gas to Europe – expert.
24. Kyiv Post: Illia Ponomarenko, Ukraine should try disengagement in Donbas – in a smart way.
25. www.mintpressnews.com: Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since. Eva Bartlett traveled to Crimea to see firsthand out how Crimeans have fared since 2014 when their country reunited with Russia, and what the referendum was really like. (excerpt)
26. Russia Beyond: 7 best Russian TV shows as chosen by our readers – rbth.com/arts/331171-russian-tv-shows-readers-choice
27. New York Times: Andrei Kozyrev, The America I Knew as Russia’s Foreign Minister Is Gone. But by impeaching Donald Trump, it can become a beacon of moral truth again.
28. Facebook: Fred Weir, Worst. Propaganda. Campaign. Ever.
29. TASS: Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Hillary Clinton’s witchhunt for ‘Russian agents’ among presidential rivals.
