RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#195 :: Wednesday, 4 December 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#195 :: Wednesday, 4 December 2019
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1. Moscow Times: Navalny Links $50M Jet to Russian PM Medvedev’s Wife.
3. Meduza: Aptekar: Russia’s ruled party.
4. Opendemocracy.net: Ivan Davydov, Why does Russia need a new “foreign agent” law? Russia’s parliament has passed a law that will allow individual citizens to be labelled “foreign agents”. What effect will it have on the country’s most active citizens?
5. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin Is Seeing ‘Foreign Agents’ Everywhere. I’m only one step from becoming a Russian “foreign agent.”
6. Meduza: We talked to the Russian lawmaker who’s leading the fight against domestic violence from inside the system.
7. TASS: Church against intrusion into family life: Patriarch in comments on domestic violence bill.
8. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, How Cozy Is Russia and China’s Military Relationship?
9. South China Morning Post: Simone McCarthy, China and Russia forge deeper ties thanks to their common enemy: the United States – scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3040437/china-and-russia-forge-deeper-ties-thanks-their-common-enemy
10. Intellinews.com: The price Europe pays for Russian gas fell to its lowest level in 15 years.
11. www.rt.com: Germany will respond if US sanctions gas pipeline from Russia – Bundestag member.
12. Carnegie Moscow Center: Sabind Fischer, What the New EU Leadership Should Do About Russia. Macron is right about the need to see relations with Russia in the context of a changing international system. At the same time, there must be a sober assessment of what is and is not possible between the EU and Russia.
13. TASS: Izvestia: NATO continues to pose a threat to Russia’s security.
14. www.rt.com: Mikhail Khodarenok, NATO’s attack on Kaliningrad could prompt Russia’s nuclear strike – rt.com/op-ed/474928-nato-baltics-kaliningrad-nuclear/
15. The Hill: Peter Zwack, Why NATO is worth preserving for US, Europe – and even Russia.
16. The National Interest: Daniel Davis, Russia Is Not The Soviet Union. So Why Can’t Europe Help Pay More for NATO? A careful examination of America’s interests and NATO fundamentals suggest it might be time to let the sun go down on NATO.
17. www.rt.com: ‘Some good things can happen’: At NATO, Trump talks nuclear deals with Russia & China but his record tells another story – rt.com/news/474949-trump-inf-treaty-russia-china/
18. Al-Monitor: Maxim Suchkov, Intel: How Russia is changing course in Syria.
19. TASS: Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Russia returning to Africa decades after Soviet Union’s collapse.
20. TASS: Russia to lose global influence unless it indicates position in Africa, says expert.
21. Indian Punchline: M.K. Bhadrakumar, US gatecrashes into Libyan endgame. But Russia stands in the way – indianpunchline.com/us-gatecrashes-into-libyan-endgame-but-russia-stands-in-the-way/
22. Moon of Alabama: OPCW Manipulation Of Its Douma Report Requires A Fresh Look At The Skripal ‘Novichok’ Case – moonofalabama.org/2019/11/opcw-manipulation-of-its-douma-report-shines-new-light-onto-the-skripal-novichok-case-.html
23. RFE/RL: U.S. Senate Hearing Exposes Partisan Differences Over New Russia Sanctions.
24. www.rt.com: Danielle Ryan, Who’s the bigger Russian agent, Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn? Depends who (and when) you ask! – rt.com/uk/474947-corbyn-johnson-russian-agent-election/
25. www.rt.com: Dueling impeachment reports: Democrats claim ‘evidence’ of Trump misconduct, Republicans say there isn’t any (READ HERE) – rt.com/usa/474950-impeachment-report-schiff-trump/
26. Wall Street Journal editorial: Mr. Schiff’s Impeachment Opus. His overstatements reveal the weakness of the Democratic case.
27. Washington Post: Max Boot, The Republicans have become the party of Russia. This makes me sick.
28. Washington Post: Greg Sargent, Stop calling Trump a ‘Russian dupe.’ The truth is much worse.
29. TASS: Kommersant: Russia, Ukraine agree on oil transit.
30. Interfax: Zelensky promises Ukrainians cheap loans to start business in attempt to stop people leaving the country.
31. Kyiv Post: Three opposition parties demand ‘no capitulation’ in Zelensky-Putin meeting.
32. Just Security: Michael Carpenter, Warning Signs as Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks Resume – justsecurity.org/67595/warning-signs-as-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-resume/
33. The Duran: George Callaghan, Peace in Ukraine? Both sides want to draw the conflict to a close. There has been a heavy cost. War weariness has set in. It does not appear that a breakthrough is likely – theduran.com/peace-in-ukraine/
34. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, NO THANKS FOR THE MEMORY – VALENTIN YUMASHEV TRIES TELLING RUSSIANS BORIS YELTSIN IS STILL ALIVE BUT NOT KICKING LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS – johnhelmer.net/no-thanks-for-the-memory-valentin-yumashev-tries-telling-russians-boris-yeltsin-is-still-alive-but-not-kicking-like-in-the-old-days/print/]
[Youmashev interview: https://echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/2542945-echo/]
35. New York Times: Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90. Mr. Massie wrote readable and respected biographies of Russian royals, including “Nicholas and Alexandra,” which became a movie.
