RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#173 :: Monday, 28 October 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#173 :: Monday, 28 October 2019
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1. Russia Beyond: How much have Russians actually changed in 10 years? (INFOGRAPHIC) – rbth.com/lifestyle/331186-russians-change
2. TASS: Stroke deaths halved in Russia during the past decade, says health minister.
3. Moscow Times: Young Russians Are Taking Care of Their Mental and Physical Health. Post-Soviet generations take cues from the West instead of their parents.
4. www.rt.com: Gorbachev reveals how the Soviet Union could have been saved – rt.com/russia/472023-gorbachev-soviet-union-saved/
5. www.rt.com: ‘Like a bad Hollywood flick with allegations as surreal as Alice in Wonderland’ – Russia’s Butina on US arrest – rt.com/russia/471925-maria-butina-rt-interview-prison/
6. www.rt.com: ‘My hair color was proof of guilt’: Maria Butina talks her arrest, the NRA, and Senate testimony (FULL INTERVIEW) – rt.com/news/471950-butina-interview-exclusive-video/
7. Interfax: Ambassador urges travelers to exercise caution amid Russophobic atmosphere in United States.
8. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM TALK.
9. Russia Matters: Anatol Lieven, Valdai 2019 Shows Russia’s Disappointment with West Amid Hopes for New Kind of Link With Europe.
10. TASS: Kremlin says has not yet taken final stance on referendum to permit euthanasia.
11. Interfax: Sobyanin praises law enforcement agencies for preventing grave consequences of protests in Moscow.
12. RFE/RL: Sure, Help The Homeless, These Moscow Residents Say, But Don’t Do It In Our Neighborhood.
13. Anatoly Karlin’s Moscow Expat Guide – akarlin.com/travel/moscow/
14. Paul Goble: New Russian Study Identifies Three Reasons Why Official Statistics are So Often at Odds with Reality.
15. The Calvert Journal: Hidden and unmarked: vivid photos from inside Russia’s former closed towns.
16. TASS: Arctic can ensure output of 90% of all Russian gas by 2035.
17. www.rt.com: Russia, China & India to set up alternative to SWIFT payment system to connect 3 billion people – rt.com/news/472040-kremlin-trump-baghdadi-credit/
18. Facebook: The Insights of Fred Weir (Christian Science Monitor)
19. Politico.com: Robert Wright, What’s Good for Putin Is Not Always Bad for America. Syria isn’t a zero-sum game between Russia and the United States, so let’s stop talking about it that way.
20. Lobe Log: Helena Cobban, Can The Turkey-Russia Agreement Help Syrians End Their Civil War? – lobelog.com/can-the-turkey-russia-agreement-help-syrians-end-their-civil-war/
21. TASS: Syrian Kurds fully back Sochi agreements between Russia and Turkey.
22. www.rt.com: If IS chief al-Baghdadi is dead, Trump has made a big contribution to fighting terrorism – Kremlin.
23. TASS: Media: Islamic State chieftain al-Baghdadi finally eliminated, White House says.
24. Wall Street Journal: Trump Moves Closer to Ending Another Post-Cold War Treaty. Open Skies agreement was designed to reduce the risk of war between Russia and the West; Allied nations push to preserve the treaty.
25. Valdai Discussion Club: Stanislav Tkachenko, President of Cuba in Moscow: A Litmus Test for Russia-US Relations – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/president-of-cuba-in-moscow/
26. Financial Times: Gideon Rachman, Britain and Russia are Europe’s odd couple. After Brexit, the UK could drift into an antagonistic relationship with its continental neighbours.
27. Meduza: Ruvinsky: Moscow’s Africa policy makes sense, but the public might not see it that way.
28. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, We Should Exempt Africa from the Russia-UK Geopolitical Confrontation – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/we-should-exempt-africa-from-the-russia-uk-geopolitical-confrontation/
29. Intellinews.com: Ukraine sends mixed signals over Donbas peace plan.
30. Paul Goble: Ukraine’s Servants of the People Coming Out of the Closet as ‘Servants of Russia,’ Portnikov Says.
31. The Unz Review: Israel Shamir, The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats. A talk with Oleg Tsarev reveals the alleged identity of the “Trump/Ukraine Whistleblower” – unz.com/ishamir/the-plundering-of-ukraine/
32. Insomniac Resurrected: Arkadiy Babchenko About The Sausage Emigrants.
Arkadiy Babchenko About The Sausage Emigrants
33. Moon of Alabama: Biden’s Intervention In Ukraine And Ukraine’s 2016 Election Meddling Are Matters of Fact.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/10/bidens-intervention-in-ukraine-and-ukraines-2016-election-meddling-are-matters-of-fact.html#more
34. Wall Street Journal editorial: Foreign Influence and Double Standards. Democrats deplore Trump on Ukraine but not Clinton in 2016.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-influence-and-double-standards-11572044626?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=16
35. Strategic Culture Foundation: Patrick Armstrong, Putin Derangement Syndrome: Craziester and More Craziester. – strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/27/putin-derangement-syndrome-craziester-and-more-craziester/
36. AP: Prominent Soviet Dissident Bukovsky Dies at 76.
37. Death of Murray Feshbach.
