RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#179 :: Wednesday, 6 November 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#179 :: Wednesday, 6 November 2019
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1. New York Times: Has a U.S. College Given Russia Too Friendly a Platform? Some question whether an American University program, inspired by a Russian ambassador, presents too favorable a view of that country.
2. The National Interest: Dennis Ortblad and Krishen Mehta, 3 Steps to Reviving the Russian Relationship. It is time to improve relations between Russia and the West with a policy of realism towards Moscow.
3. www.rt.com: West hijacked Cold War victory but never cared how Russians feel about it – Gorbachev – rt.com/news/472727-gorbachev-west-cold-war/
4. Valdai Discussion Club: Ivan Timofeev, Russia: The Dilemmas of an Underachiever? – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-the-dilemmas-of-an-underachiever/
5. Moscow Times: Most Russians Want ‘Decisive’ Change – Study.
7. Russia Beyond: Russians answer the world’s most burning questions about their home – rbth.com/lifestyle/331239-russians-answer-questions
8. Vesti.ru: Putin Celebrates National Unity Day With Grand Reception of Russia’s Brightest and Most Talented – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3206854&cid=4441
9. TASS: Russian language faces onslaught by nationalists, primeval Russophobes.
10. Kremlin.ru: Meeting of Council on Russian Language – en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/61986
11. Paul Goble: Russia Currently has Fewer than 350 Miles of High-Speed, Multi-Lane Highways, Rosstat Data Show.
12. Moscow Times/Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Where Russia’s Foreign Investment Really Comes From. No, it’s not from Cyprus.
13. Russia Beyond: 10 non-fiction books about Russia written by foreigners – rbth.com/arts/331237-non-fiction-about-russia
14. TASS: Russia answered all follow-up questions from WADA on Moscow Lab data – sports minister.
15. Financial Times: Anatol Lieven, How climate change will transform the global balance of power. The shift from oil and gas will be as consequential as changes in weather patterns.
16. Komsomolskaya Pravda: Pundit says US ‘tacitly supports’ Russia’s interests abroad. (Nikita Isayev)
17. TASS: Izvestia: NATO launches massive exercise on border with Russia.
18. The National Interest: Lyle Goldstein, Did Russia Really Win the War in Syria? Are Russians, in fact, doing a “victory dance” and laughing at the capricious Americans? Not quite.
19. Infobrics: China’s Development of the Russian Far East Can Improve EU-Moscow Relations.
20. The National Interest: Nigel Gould-Davie, The Temptations of Triangulism. America once sided with China, inducing the Soviet Union to cooperate. Today, Russia is siding with China, and America should respond as the Soviet Union did-by softening its policies. This is the logic of triangulism.
21. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, RUSSIANS FOR WEXIT.
22. TASS: US seeks major arms control deal with Russia and China, Trump says.
23. Wall Street Journal: Russia Steps Up Efforts to Shield Its Hackers From Extradition to U.S.. Kremlin resorts to prisoner swaps and coercion to keep potential cyber operatives out of U.S. hands, experts say.
24. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, SKRIPAL-STURGESS CASE CORONER BACKS DOWN – NEW INQUEST HEARING ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT FEBRUARY, NO NEW POLICE EVIDENCE ACKNOWLEDGED.
25. TASS: Russia-Belarus integration causes concern among Western states – newspaper.
26. Wall Street Journal: A Russian Ally’s Solo Course Alters Western Calculations. U.S. and others court Belarus at arm’s length after Kremlin made an example of Ukraine.
27. Brookings: Steven Pifer, Five months into Ukrainian President Zelenskiy’s term, there are reasons for optimism and caution – brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/11/04/five-months-into-ukrainian-president-zelenskiys-term-there-are-reasons-for-optimism-and-caution/
28. Awful Avalanche: Armchair Insurgents Incite Odessans To Rise Up – Part I.
29. Awful Avalanche: Armchair Insurgents Incite Odessans To Rise Up – Part II.
30. The Nation: Aaron Mate, Trump’s Impeachment Lures Democrats Into a Cold War Mentality. The hawkish mindset that liberals have embraced threatens not just their own political fortunes but also global peace.
31. Counterpunch: Gary Leupp, Which Is Worse? Trying to Get Ukraine into NATO, or Trying to Use Ukraine to Reelect Trump?
32. Moon of Alabama: A Timeline Of Joe Biden’s Intervention Against The Prosecutor General Of Ukraine. (excerpt)
33. www.rt.com: ‘You know’: Ambassador Yovanovitch’s 300-page testimony reveals only assumptions, innuendo and what’s in the papers.
34. Interfax: Russian Senator Dzhabarov: Allegation that Russia plans to meddle in U.S. elections is sign of ‘madness’
35. www.rt.com: Is collusion still a thing? Washington Post publishing ‘illustrated Mueller report’ book.
36. www.rt.com: Helen Buyniski, Russiagate is a cult, complete with unquestionable doctrine, dissent-shaming, and us-vs-them cosmology – rt.com/op-ed/472709-russiagate-cult-election-interference-brainwashing/
37. The Strategist (Australia): Joseph Nye, How to deal with a declining Russia.
38. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Yevgeny Primakov’s International Review programme on Rossiya 24 TV Channel, Moscow, November 1, 2019.
