RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2019-#206 :: Monday, 23 December 2019
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2019-#206 :: Monday, 23 December 2019
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1. Russia Beyond: 10 win-win Russian books for your Christmas reading list.
2. Moscow Times: Russia has the world’s second-highest share of internet users on social media.
3. The National Interest: George Beebe, Groupthink Resurgent. As our debacles in Vietnam and Iraq demonstrate, expert consensus is not always a recipe for success. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that American policy toward Ukraine has also been steeped in illusions.
4. www.rt.com: ‘He says what he thinks directly’: Russia’s Lavrov reveals peculiarities of foreign policy talks with Trump.
5. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions in The Great Game show on Channel One, Moscow, December 22, 2019. (with Dimitri Simes)
6. Consortiumnews.com: Pepe Escobar, You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution? Andrei Martyanov’s latest book provides unceasing evidence about the kind of lethality waiting for U.S. forces in a possible, future war against real armies (not the Taliban or Saddam Hussein’s).
7. The Bell: Romanticism, nostalgia, regret: why are Russians discussing the 1990s?
8. www.rt.com: Stalinator will be back: Soviet dictator posing as iconic Schwarzenegger character winks at climate-saving plant.
9. TASS: Putin’s approval rating up to 64%, poll says.
10. R.Politik: Tatiana Stanovaya, Transition Time? Putin Initiates A Wide-Ranging Discussion Of Constitutional Reform.
11. Moscow Times: After a Turbulent Year in Russian Domestic Politics, What Does 2020 Hold in Store?. We talk to five political analysts about how Russian authorities will attempt to maintain stability next year.
12. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, PRESIDENT PUTIN MAKES A PHENOMENAL REVELATION IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE.
13. Wall Street Journal: Russian Markets Rally as Investors Look Past U.S. Sanctions. Stocks, bonds and the ruble have gained this year on signs of economic recovery.
14. Moscow Times/Bloomberg: Five Years After Meltdown, Ruble Is Reborn as Trade-War Refuge.
15. TASS: WADA’s decisions swayed by representatives of NATO member states, says Lavrov.
16. Kremlin.ru: CIS informal summit. Vladimir Putin told the participants about the archive materials on the pre-history of World War II and invited them to tour a specially organised exhibit. (with Dimitri Simes)
17. Valdai Discussion Club: BRICS: An Archipelago of Stability in a Stormy Sea of Circumstances.
18. InfoBrics: Trump administration and Moscow shoot down bipartisan DASKA “sanctions bill from hell”
19. TASS: Izvestia: New US sanctions against Nord Stream-2 might hold up pipeline’s launch.
20. https://therealnews.com: Steve Horn, Democrats Invoke Russiagate to Advance Bill Lobbied for by Big Oil.
21. Russian International Affairs Council: Sergey Markedonov, The Trans-Caucasus in 2019 Is Not a Monolithic Region.
22. Awful Avalanche: Khaindrava: Fix Your Own Damn Democracy First! (re Georgia)
23. TASS: Izvestia: Russia and Ukraine reach five-year gas transit deal.
24. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Russia, Ukraine agree on new five-year transit deal as US slaps sanctions on Nord Stream 2, Turkish Steam pipelines.
25. Meduza: At last minute, Russia and Ukraine agree to new five-year gas deal. Here’s who won.
26. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, Ukraine And Russia, Together Again?
27. www.rt.com: The New Yorker editor & Iraq war peddler gets called out after lamenting Trump supporters do not believe ‘facts’ about impeachment.
28. New York Times: Russia Is a Mess. Why Is Putin Such a Formidable Adversary? Its economy is sputtering and its young people are frustrated, but with America and Europe in tumult, Russia and its leader of two decades are on a roll.
29. Moon of Alabama: U.S. Media Bias Creates False Pictures Of Russia.
