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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2020-#6 :: Friday, 10 January 2020
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1. Intellinews.com: OUTLOOK 2020 Russia. Russia Russia’s economy is basically healthy and solid. It’s just not growing fast enough. The Kremlin is attempting to address this problem, but so far its efforts have been off to a slow start. 2020 should be the year when the pace picks up.
2. Russia Beyond: Orthodox Christianity for dummies: Everything you were afraid to ask.
3. www.rt.com: Moscow joins TOP 5 ‘best’ cities in the world, triumphing over Dubai, Singapore, Barcelona & others.
4. Vedomosti: Russian pundits view country’s political prospects in 2020.
5. Meduza: Trudolyubov (Vedomosti): Regime convergence in Russia and America.
6. TASS: Kommersant: Russia gearing up to counter climate threats.
7. Thomson Reuters Foundation: Rachel Savage and Angelina Davydova, ANALYSIS-Sluggish climate action may see warming do Russia more harm than good. Russia’s first adaptation plan points to the economic opportunities of a hotter climate, but it also faces major threats from extreme weather and melting ice.
8. Barents Observer (Norway): The human rights organization that studies Stalin horrors is fined 21 times for violations of foreign agent law. Independent organization Memorial must pay the state 4.1 million rubles.
9. Moscow Times: Michele Berdy, The Key Words of 2019.
10. RFE/RL: Plagiarism Rife In Russian Science? Hundreds Of Academic Articles Retracted In Unprecedented Move.
11. Awful Avalanche: The Current State of Russian Agriculture – Part III.
12. TASS: US-Iran conflict escalation to contribute to ruble’s strengthening, say experts.
13. Intellinews.com: Russian rallies: RTS index breaks above 1,600 for the first time in seven years.
14. Bloomberg: Russia Tried ‘Energy Dominance,’ and Markets Bit Back. A new history of Russia’s gas industry holds a lesson for Trump.
15. Wall Street Journal: NATO Outmaneuver Russia in Balkans.. Albanian Air Base Gets NATO Upgrade as Alliance Plays to Its Strengths in Balkans. Graveyard of obsolete MiGs to become refueling station for NATO planes projecting power eastward.
16. TASS: Kommersant: EU may revise strategy for relations with Russia.
17. Bloomberg: Leonid Bershidsky, Putin’s Latest Obsession: A New World War II Narrative. The Russian leader feels the European narrative of the war is shifting in ways that make the Soviet Union a villain.
18. Twitter: Comments re Bershidsky’s “Putin’s Latest Obsession: A New World War II Narrative”
19. Kennan Institute: Rahim Rahimov, Moscow’s Post-Soviet Integration Dreams: History, Economics Play Roles.
20. TASS: Media: Iran-US conflict may turn into proxy war.
21. Meduza: Shumilin (Novaya Gazeta): Russia doesn’t want to lose Iran in Syria.
22. Russia Beyond: Is Russia Iran’s ally? – rbth.com/lifestyle/331528-russia-iran-ally
23. Counterpunch.org: Prabir Purkayastha, The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon. – counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/the-current-u-s-approach-to-nuclear-weapons-can-only-lead-to-armageddon/
24. Washington Post: Erik Wemple, David Corn and the Steele dossier: Just checking the facts! Eleventh in a series on the media’s handling of the Steele dossier.
25. New York Times: ‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020.
25. New York Times: ‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020. 26. Columbia Harriman Institute: Save the Date: A Tribute to Mark L. von Hagen (1954-2019). January 31.