RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2020-#10 :: Thursday, 16 January 2020

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2020-#10 :: Thursday, 16 January 2020
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1. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with members of the Government.
2. Intellinews.com: Ben Aris, Head of Russian tax service Mikhail Mishustin appointed prime minister.
3. TASS: About $7.3 bln needed to implement president’s address in 2020 – PM candidate Mishustin.
4. AFP: Putin’s new PM promises ‘real changes’ for Russians.
5. Wall Street Journal: Putin Ushers In New Prime Minister, Signaling Bid to Boost Economic Legacy. Russia’s parliament approves Mikhail Mishustin as new prime minister, a day after government’s resignation.
6. https://gilbertdoctorow.com: Gilbert Doctorow, Vladimir Putin Prepares His Succession.
7. TASS: Media: Major constitutional reform proposed by Putin kick-starts power transfer.
8. TASS: Media: Putin picks tax chief as new prime minister.
10. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Major Political Changes in Russia.
11. www.rt.com: Bryan MacDonald, Russian political earthquake: Putin sets out plan for Kremlin departure & Medvedev resigns.
12. Russia Observer: Patrick Armstrong, RUSSIAN RESHUFFLE.
13. TASS: Putin signs decree to establish working group on constitutional amendments.
14. Meduza: ‘Vice President Medvedev’. Russia’s prime minister is about to become Putin’s deputy in the Security Council. What does that mean?
15. www.rt.com: IT expert, hockey fan & piano player: Meet Russia’s Prime Minister candidate Mikhail Mishustin.
16. AP: Next Russian PM a Career Bureaucrat With No Political Desire.
17. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidksy, Putin’s Pick for Prime Minister Is a Bureaucratic Superman. But even Mikhail Mishustin will struggle to achieve Putin’s ambitious economic goals in an increasingly Soviet political system.
18. Vesti.ru: Russia Stole a March On the Competition, Just Became the World Leader in Smart Tax Technology. (interview with Mikhail Mishustin)
19. Financial Times: Russia’s role in producing the taxman of the future. Aimed at shopkeepers rather than oligarchs, Moscow has technology to record and tax real-time transactions.
20. No Yardstick: András Tóth-Czifra, Putin’s endgame.
21. CNN.com: Daniel Treisman, Why Vladimir Putin is shaking up Russia.
22. Russia Matters: Simon Saradzhyan, Putin Signals Intention to Continue Steering Russia Beyond 2024, but Will He Solve Country’s Structural Problems?
23. The Spectator: Mark Galeotti, The hunt is on for Putin’s successor.
24. Carnegie Moscow Center; Andrei Kolesnikov, Planning for a (Not-So) Post-Putin Russia. Of the constitutional reforms put forward by Putin, what will really change a lot is the proposal to give the Russian constitution-including repressive Russian legislation-priority over international law. This violation of the usual hierarchy is nothing short of a legal revolution.
25. Kremlin.ru: Meeting with Accounts Chamber Chairman Alexei Kudrin.
26. Moscow Times: Michael Kofman, Beyond the Hype of Russia’s Hypersonic Weapons. The much-touted Avangard system became operational at the end of last year.
27. Russian International Affairs Council: Andrey Kortunov, Challenges to International Stability in 2020-2025.
28. Valdai Discussion Club: Timofei Bordachev, Forget Hitler: War and Diplomacy in the 21st Century.
29. Dances with Bears: John Helmer, GERMAN PARLIAMENT OFFICE REPORTS NO RUSSIAN INVASION OF DONBASS, REJECTS MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA.
30. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, THE HOUDINI TRICK AND THE SKRIPAL CASE – CORONER RIDLEY’S ESCAPE FROM THE EVIDENCE OF THE ONE WITNESS WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH, SERGEI SKRIPAL
31. Strategic Culture Foundation: Robert Bridge, Americans Beware! Russia Can Hack Your Brain, Make You Believe Joe Biden Unfit for Oval Office.
32. New York Times: The Russian Hacking Plan for 2020. Kremlin-directed hackers infiltrated Democratic email servers to interfere with the 2016 American election. Emboldened by their past success, new evidence indicates that they are trying again.
33. Wall Street Journal: Foreign Threats More Numerous, Sophisticated as 2020 Election Looms, Official Says. Concerns about Russia interference rose anew this week after experts reported hackers had targeted company caught up in Trump impeachment
34. The Verge: Russell Brandom, Why the NYT thinks Russia hacked Burisma – and where the evidence is still shaky. Like most attributions, the case rests on circumstantial evidence.
35. Consortiumnews.com: Caitlin Johnstone, Establishment Pundits Go Nuts Over New Russian Hacking Conspiracy. Since the story concerns Russia, all journalistic standards have, as usual, gone out the window.
36. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Sergei Karaganov, Where to Go and with Whom to Go: Russia’s Foreign Policy on the Threshold of a New Decade.