RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#194 :: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#194 :: Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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1. Russian Life: Katrina Keegan, 11 Reasons to Be Grateful for Russia
2. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Whitepill on Russia’s Fertility Trends – unz.com/akarlin/russia-fertility-trends/
3. Moscow Times: Russia’s New ‘Foreign Agent’ Law, Explained.
4. TASS: Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Putin signs law ‘foreign agents’ media law.
5. www.rt.com: Putin signs bill on mandatory Russian-made software for electronic devices – rt.com/russia/474874-putin-law-russian-software-mandatory/
6. Interfax: Russian economy growing stably but is vulnerable – Klepach.
7. TASS: Izvestia: Rising consumer credit boosts Russia’s GDP, but drives down public’s well-being.
8. Vesti.ru: Head of Central Bank Believes Worst Is Behind For Russian Economy, Sanctions Lost Their Bite – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3216440&cid=4441
9. Vesti.ru: Putin Tackles Inter-Ethnic Relations, Refuses to Ban “Motherland” Like PC Europe Has Done – vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3216076&cid=4441
10. Paul Goble: Economics Rather than Politics Reason So Many Young Russians Want to Move Abroad, Volkov Says.
11. Intellinews.com: Russia’s $55bn Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China comes online.
12. TASS: Media: Power of Siberia’s launch to help Gazprom reduce dependence on Europe.
13. Valdai Discussion Club: Yaroslav Lissovolik, A “Synchronized Downturn” Calls for a “Synchronized Response” – valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/a-synchronized-downturn-calls-for-a-synchronized/
14. TASS: NATO’s outdated stereotypes of thinking cannot be instrument for cooperation – Putin.
15. Interfax: Common interests should prevail in Russian-NATO relations – Putin.
16. TASS: Media: NATO members to debate alliance’s ‘brain death’
17. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, How to Stop NATO – russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/how-to-stop-nato/
18. The Times (UK): Jeremy Corbyn calls for softer approach to Putin.
19. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, The Lessons of Russia’s Syrian Intervention for Washington and Brussels. (excerpt)
20. www.rt.com: ‘Sorry, but it’s fake…again’: Russian military debunk NYT report on bombing of civilians in Syria – rt.com/news/474876-nyt-russia-bomb-syria-fake/
21. Moscow Times: Dmitry Stefanovich, U.S. Inspection of New Russian Missile May Revive Stalled Arms Control Talks. Russia made positive moves to extend the New START treaty late last month.
22. Washington Times: Edward Lozanky, Is Ukraine vital to U.S. security?
23. TASS: Ukraine, Russia sign 10-year oil transit agreement.
24. TASS: Kiev should ensure Donbass citizens’ rights to win back their support – diplomat.
25. Interfax: Donetsk opposes any changes to sequence of implementing Minsk Agreements – Pushilin.
26. Facebook: Ivan Katchanovski, The Maidan massacre.
27. Time.com: ‘I Don’t Trust Anyone at All.’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe.
28. Foreign Affairs: Michael Carpenter, The Oligarchs Who Lost Ukraine and Won Washington. How Kremlin-Backed Authoritarians Sought to Profit From Trump’s Presidency.
29. Washington Post: THE MUELLER REPORT ILLUSTRATED. A six-part series on the obstruction investigation.
30. Wall Street Journal: House Republicans’ Report Defends Trump in Impeachment Probe. Lawmakers seek to counter Democrats over president’s hold on security aid and request that Ukraine investigate U.S. political rival. [Report: s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/gopimpeachreport1202.pdf?mod=article_inline]
31. History News Network: Walter Moss, A Review of Amazon Prime’s Series Dostoevsky.
32. AP: Robert Massie, Who Popularized Russian History, Dead at 90.
