RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#192 :: Wednesday, 27 November 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#192 :: Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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1. Der Spiegel: Benjamin Bidder, The Case of Sergei Magnitsky. Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions. The story of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolize the brutal persecution of whistleblowers in Russia. Ten years after his death, inconsistencies in Magnitsky’s story suggest he may not have been the hero many people — and Western governments — believed him to be. [See also: thekomisarscoop.com/2019/11/der-spiegel-expose-of-bill-browder-could-begin-take-down-of-a-fraudster/]
2. The National Interest: Lyle Goldstein, The War in Ukraine Must End. Washington should seek a grand bargain with Moscow over Crimea.
3. Valdai Discussion Club: Ivan Timofeev, Russia and the US: Where Will the Growing Alienation Lead to? – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-and-the-us/
4. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Vladislav Inozemtsev, Putinism and Russophobia linked: Why other countries fear modern Russia so much.
5. Carnegie Moscow Center: Tatiana Stanovaya, United Russia’s Rehabilitation Means a Tightening of the Screws. The ruling party will clearly retain its central place under any future scenario for the transition of power, and anyone who hurries to jump on the bandwagon today will likely come out on top.
6. Gold Goats ‘N Guns: Tom Luongo, Stay Strong, Go Long – Bulletproof Russia Becomes Contrarian Haven. – tomluongo.me/2019/11/25/stay-strong-go-long-bulletproof-russia-becomes-contrarian-haven/
7. TASS: Vedomosti: Moscow seeks to preserve New START.
8. South China Morning Post: Cary Huong, The China-Russia challenge to the US-led West has hit a BRICS wall – scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3038953/china-russia-challenge-us-led-west-has-hit-brics-wall
9. Moscow Times: U.S. Study Downplays Russian Trolls’ Influence on American Politics.
10. The National Interest: Hunter DeRensis, Was Fiona Hill’s Testimony A Slam Dunk? Ukraine and Russia policy has become war by other means in American domestic politics.
11. Consortiumnews.com: Ray McGovern, The Pitfalls of a Pit Bull Russophobe. Like so many other glib “Russia experts” with access to Establishment media, Fiona Hill, who testified Thursday in the impeachment probe, seems three decades out of date – consortiumnews.com/2019/11/22/ray-mcgovern-the-pitfalls-of-a-pit-bull-russophobe/
12. Wall Street Journal: Holman Jenkins, Who Will Turn Over the 2016 Rocks? The republic can survive the truth, but the FBI and CIA probably can’t.
13. New York Times: Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says. Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
14. Washington Post: Time to call out and remove Putin’s propagandists.
15. Washington Examiner: No, Ukraine’s interference in 2016 hasn’t been ‘debunked,’ ‘discredited,’ or ‘dismantled’
16. The Grayzone: Yasha Levine, Yes, Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Meddling in the 2016 US presidential election by Ukrainian politicians and government agencies did indeed happen. No amount of denial is going to change that. – thegrayzone.com/2019/11/23/yes-ukraine-interference-in-the-2016-presidential-election/
17. www.rt.com: Finian Cunningham, US impeachment furor sabotages Ukraine peace talks – rt.com/op-ed/474288-zelensky-putin-minsk-impeachment-trump/
18. Awful Avalanche: Zelensky Uses Police Tactics To Force Land Grab – awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/zelensky-uses-police-tactics-to-force-land-grab/
19. www.stalkerzone.org: Inquisition for Ukrainian Journalists: There Is No Such Thing Anywhere Else in the World – stalkerzone.org/inquisition-for-ukrainian-journalists-there-is-no-such-thing-anywhere-else-in-the-world/
20. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE GOAT’S ENTRAILS FAIL AGAIN – MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY’S STORY DISMISSED IN THE BRITISH HIGH COURT. (excerpt) – johnhelmer.net/the-goats-entrails-fail-again-mikhail-khodorkovskys-story-dismissed-in-the-british-high-court/print/
21. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE OLD YUKOS GANG START TO FIGHT EACH OTHER, SPILLING MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY’S SECRETS IN NEW YORK COURT. (excerpt) – johnhelmer.net/the-old-yukos-gang-start-to-fight-each-other-spilling-mikhail-khodorkovskys-secrets-in-new-york-court/print/
22. The National Interest: Robert Manning, Could Russia and the West Have Gotten Along After All? Maybe the reunification of Germany and the democratization of the ex-Warsaw Pact states was the best that could be achieved.
24. www.rt.com: Putin could have been ‘FIRED’ in 1998 – from top spy job that propelled him to presidency – rt.com/russia/474133-putin-could-have-been-fired/
25. Meduza: Travin: Putin became Putin ‘by mistake,’ and the real problem is that Russia’s institutions can’t self-correct.
26. Paul Goble: Five Misconceptions about Perestroika Widespread in Russia Today, Neukropny Says.