RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#185 :: Thursday, 14 November 2019

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1. Moscow Times: Lincoln Pigman, Putin Underestimates Russia’s Youth. The president, who officially does not own a mobile phone and reportedly does not use the internet, reduces Russia’s youth and the internet to pawns in someone else’s arsenal.
2. No Yarkstick: András Tóth-Czifra, NY Dispatches: the popularity of governors. A recent hike in the overall popularity of Russia’s governors tells an important story. But not necessarily the one that many have highlighted.
3. Meduza: Five years later, Russia still hasn’t recovered from its 2014 economic crisis. These graphs explain why.
4. Intellinews.com: Russia’s economic growth accelerated to 1.7% in 3Q19 after a very slow first half of the year.
5. TASS: Russia’s Arctic oil reserves estimated at 7.3 bln tonnes.
6. Carnegie Moscow Center: Alexandra Prokopenko, Investment in Russia Remains a Lottery, Despite Government Promises. The Russian authorities’ attempts to improve conditions for entrepreneurs are not very predictable, and the new investment regime is constructed in such a way that state control over investment projects will grow, while most state support will go to state capitalists and companies close to them.
7. Valdai Discussion Club: Alexander Losev, Is There a Threat of a New Global Economic Crisis?
8. TASS: Nezavisimaya Gazeta: BRICS leaders seek to create multipolar world.
9. Russian International Affairs Council: Alexander Yermakov, Darkened Skies: The U.S. Might Withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies.
10. www.strategic-culture.org: Finian Cunningham, Trump’s Arms Race Threat a Sign of US Weakness.
11. www.rt.com: Marco Rubio blames ‘Putin’s disinformation’ for coverage of Bolivia coup that he doesn’t like.
12. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, TRUMP IS KILLING UKRAINIANS!
13. The Nation: Stephen Cohen, Why Are We in Ukraine? Historically and even today, Russia has much in common with Ukraine-the United States, almost nothing.
14. The Unz Review: The Saker, The Independent Ukraine’s Painful Journey Through the Five Stages of Grief.
15. Washington Post: Will Englund, Why Ukraine and Russia are still at war.
16. The National Interest: Hunter DeRensis, What Impeachment Really Reveals About Ukraine. Ukraine is playing footsie with China even as Adam Schiff and William Taylor depict it as a staunch American ally.
17. Consortiumnews.com: Ray MdGovern, Ukraine For Dummies. There was no excuse for Congress’ ignorance of Ukraine. Here is a guide to help.
18. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Ukraine’s most powerful oligarch states the obvious: Ukraine has to turn back towards Russia.
19. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, IGOR KOLOMOISKY MAKES A MISTAKE, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES DOES WHAT IT ALWAYS DOES.