RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#203 :: Wednesday, 18 December 2019

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#203 :: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
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1. TASS: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual news conferences in facts and figures
2. Valdai Discussion Club: Andrey Kortunov, American King Kong and the Law of the Jungle.
3. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, European Security Is Becoming Euro-Asian. The world is probably entering a period of new bipolarity, in which the main players will be the United States and China. The situation will put various states before the question how they relate to the new central axis of global rivalry, this time between Washington and Beijing.
4. TASS: Rossiyskaya Gazeta: EU’s new leadership offers opportunity for resetting ties with Russia, Lavrov says.
5. Vesti.ru: 60 Minutes: American Media Realize Russia Is Serious, Doesn’t Plan on Backing Down
6. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, In 2020, Russians Will Rediscover Capitalism.
7. Insomniac Ressurected: Egor Zhukov’s Attorney says he Will Donate Money Collected for Egor’s Defense to The Ukrainian Armed Forces.
8. Kennan Institute: Natalia Rostova, Saving Their Profession: Russian Journalists and Their New Media.
9. Vesti.ru: Bolshoi Theater Accused of Racism By Sulky Black Ballerina Misty Copeland Over Dark Makeup
10. Moscow Times: Shell Companies Account for 60% of Russia’s Foreign Investment.
11. Oilprice.com: Lukoil: Russia’s Output Could Surpass 12 Million Bpd By 2035.
12. Oilprice.com: US Admits Sanctions Can’t Stop Russia-led Nord Stream 2 Pipeline.
13. AFP: Russia vows to finish gas pipeline despite US sanctions.
14. www.rt.com: Germany ‘won’t back down’ under threat of US sanctions over Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia – Merkel.
15. Sputnik: Germany Calls for US Not to Interfere in Russia-Ukraine Gas Row.
16. RFE/RL: U.S. Lawmakers To Discuss Russia Sanctions Bill ‘From Hell’
17. Meduza: Police reportedly raid the home and offices of Russia’s richest family (though they deny it)
18. Moscow Times: Michele Berdy, Notable Deaths in Russia in 2019. Remembering some of those who left us this year.
19. NYU Jordan Center: Elena Pedigo Clark and Logan Stinson, “One Soldier’s War” and the New Literary War Hero. (re Arkady Babchenko)
21. Asia Times: Russia bulks up its Arctic defenses. The S-400 SAM has a firing range of 380 km (205 nm) and a radar acquisition range for airborne targets of 580 km.
22. www.rt.com: Intensified drills on Russia’s doorstep indicate NATO is gearing up for major conflict – Moscow’s top general.
23. Interfax: Russian General Staff chief sees no prerequisites for massive war.
24. Reuters: U.S. Congress Pressures Trump to Renew Russia Arms Control Pact.
25. www.rt.com: Abhijit Majumder, Great game in Washington? India dancing with the US bison, hugging the Russian bear.
26. The National Interest: Carlo Caro, The Real Reason Syria Clings to Long-Time Partner Russia. The war in Syria is nothing more than a little relationship maintenance.
27. Valdai Discussion Club: Abas Aslani, Iran-Russia-China Naval Drill: Another Piece of the Geopolitical Puzzle.
28. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Emadeddin Badi, Libya’s War of the Many. Russia’s increased involvement in Libya marks a turning point in the conflict, making an Ankara-Kremlin rapprochement all the more likely.
29. Russian International Affairs Council: Sergey Rekeda, The Union State of Russia and Belarus: Searching for a Development Vector.
30. New Straits Times (Singapore): Shahzada Rahim, Why is Russia angry? The nature of Russia’s aggressive foreign policy and offensive revisionism is rooted in the West’s ‘Frostpolitik’ approach towards post-Soviet Russia.
31. www.rt.com: Germany’s Spiegel brushes off Browder’s complaint about ‘misrepresenting’ Magnitsky story.
32. Wall Street Journal: Holman Jenkins, Halfway to the 2016 Truth. The Steele dossier was flimsy. What about the FBI’s secret info in the Clinton case?
33. Consortiumnews.com: Caitlin Johnstone, Attacking the Source: Establishment Loyalists’ Favorite Online Tactic. The demand that only mainstream establishment media sources be used to argue against establishment narratives is inherently contradictory.