RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents & links :: JRL 2020-#4 :: Wednesday, 8 January 2020
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2020-#4 :: Wednesday, 8 January 2020
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1. Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast: Russia in Global Affairs. (with Fyodor Lukyanov)
2. KIFI News: Cat from Russia found in Idaho Falls.
3. High North News (Norway): Russia Unveils Climate Change Adaptation Plan. The Russian government takes a major step to join the world community in recognizing the threat of climate change.
4. High North News (Norway): Putin’s Geopolitical Policy Paradox in the Arctic . Domestic pressures put Arctic policy at odds with narratives of Russian national identity.
5. Meduza: ‘I don’t know what will happen with Putin’s daughters’. Political scientist Vladimir Gelman explains how Russia’s political regime consolidated and the country became ‘badly governed’
6. The Times (UK): Poverty in Russia: the real threat to Putin’s reign. One in eight Russians survives on less than £150 a month, and there is no sign that the gap between rich and poor will narrow any time soon, writes Marc Bennetts in Moscow.
7. RFE/RL: Putin’s Stagnant Year? Economic Headwinds Challenge Kremlin Ambitions In 2020 And Beyond.
8. Moscow Times: For Russia Regional Coverage, Look to These 9 Independent Media.
9. Meduza: From the blogosphere to Telegram ‘Meduza’ reviews the most important Russian investigative journalism of the decade.
10. Financial Times: Russia’s oligarchs must soon decide how to pass on their empires. Succession and shareholdings critical to questions of corporate governance and economic growth.
11. Awful Avalanche: The Current State of Russian Agriculture – Part I.
12. Intellinews.com: Russia’s Sheremetyevo international airport named most punctual and best employer in Russia.
13. Bloomberg: Russia Readies New Gas Link to Europe in Defiance of U.S.
14. www.rt.com: Full stream ahead: Russia & Turkey launch TurkStream gas pipeline.
15. Wall Street Journal: Putin Meets Assad in Syria, Marks Regime’s Gains. Leader makes second visit since Russia ramped up military support for Damascus in 2015.
16. Al-Monitor: Maxim Suchkov, How Moscow is positioning itself as broker amid Mideast tensions.
17. The Hill: Peter Zwack, Averting war in 2020.
18. Moscow Times/Carnegie: Marianna Belenkaya, The Iran Crisis Can Be a Boost for Russia. If Syria becomes the setting for a clash between Washington and Tehran, it could be a major problem for Moscow.
19. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Jeffrey Mankoff, How Will Russia React to the Killing of Soleimani?
20. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin Now Needs a Plan B on Iran. Qassem Soleimani’s death may force a change in the Russian calculus involving Syria, Iran and Turkey.
21. Russian and Eurasian Politics: Gordon Hahn, Russia, the Eurasian Triangle, and the Soleiman Assassination.
22. Bloomberg: Why China Won’t Join Any Iran-Russia Coalition Against Trump.
23. Science: Richard Stone, ‘National pride is at stake.’ Russia, China, United States race to build hypersonic weapons.
24. BMB Ukraine: Hlib Vyshlinsky: “Will Ukraine be able to keep its citizens?”
25. Washington Post: Jackson Diehl, The surprising news from Ukraine: Zelensky is succeeding despite Trump’s abuse.
26. Washington Post: Russian trolls are targeting American veterans, and Trump’s government isn’t helping, group says.
27. www.rt.com: Norman Lewis, UK media uses Christopher Steele (of all people!) to push new conspiracy theory about Cambridge Analytica & 2020 election hacking.
