RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#90 table of contents with links :: Johnson’s Russia List – Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#90 :: Wednesday 6 May 2015
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RUSSIA

1. Sic Semper Tyrannis: “The world’s first genuinely autistic government.”
2. Moscow Times: A Guide to Celebrating Victory Day in Moscow.
3. Moscow Times: NGO: Russia Among Top 60 Best Countries to Be a Mom.
4. Reuters: EU’s top diplomat says destabilized Russia in nobody’s interest.
5. Russia Direct: In Russia, you can’t beat the sistema. RD Interview: Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society at University College London (UCL), discusses the system of Russian power known as “sistema” and how it is evolving in response to the Ukrainian conflict and the Russian economic crisis.
6. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Kremlin blocks new Bolotnaya rally as Russia’s opposition movement withers.
7. Russia Direct: Yury Korgunyuk, Bolotnaya Square, three years later. Three years after the May 6, 2012 opposition protests at Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, what are the main lessons the Russia authorities and opposition should have learned?
8. Business New Europe: Dividend season opens and Russian companies are paying.
9. Moscow Times: Russian Bank Lending Drops 60 Percent as Crisis Paralyses System.
10. Forbes.com: Kenneth Rapoza, The U.S. Cannot Compete With Russia In Europe’s Natural Gas Market.
11. Moscow Times: Pamela Egan, Russian Business Takes Legal Disputes Abroad.
12. Carnegie Moscow Center: Vadim Dubnov, Chechnya’s Strongman vs. Moscow’s Men in Uniform: What Next?
13. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Russia’s Death Rate Is Surging And It’s Not Clear Why.
14. Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Fedor Lukyanov, Orwell from an unexpected source.
15. http://readrussia.com: Mark Adomanis, Is the West losing the media arms race?
16. www.rt.com: RT’s Paula Slier leaves Ukraine following call for her arrest, death threats.
17. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Press Digest: Eastern Ukraine on verge of slipping back into armed conflict. RBTH presents a selection of views from leading Russian media on international events, featuring reports on the worsening situation in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, a possible meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Russian opposition, and the cooling of Russian-Turkish relations over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Armenia.
18. The Guardian (UK): Alec Luhn, 15 years of Vladimir Putin: 15 ways he has changed Russia and the world. His critics say he has led his country into an autocratic cul-de-sac, but his fans point to the stability he brought after Yeltsin and the way he stood up to the west.
19. The International New York Times: Maxim Trudolyubov, Putin’s Grudging Perestroika.
20. The Unz Review: Peter Frost, Impressions of Russia.
21. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Comment to “Impressions of Russia”
22. www.rt.com: Russian security doctrine to be adjusted after Arab Spring, Ukraine turmoil – official.
23. Moscow Times: Mark Galeotti, Moscow Is Playing Second Fiddle to Beijing.
24. www.rt.com: ‘Polish anti-Russian rhetoric scaremongering to remain in power.'(interview with Alexander Mercouris)
25. Interfax: Obama expects relations with Russia to improve after source of tension eliminated – U.S. ambassador.
26. Valdai Discussion Club: Robert Legvold, A Melting Arctic in a Frozen Russia-West Relationship.
27. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Bryan MacDonald, The top five western media commentators on Russia to follow on Twitter. Russia attracts belligerent and polarized opinion like Elizabeth Taylor hauled in husbands. Given the amount of hysterical anti-Kremlin coverage on certain media platforms in recent years, balance is often as hard to find as hen’s teeth.
28. The Calvert Journal: 90s reloaded. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 ushered in a decade of extraordinary change and turbulence. The Russian 90s saw the rise of oligarchs and gangsters, an attempted military coup and a financial crisis. But they were also a time of pioneering youth culture: of freedom and opportunity, fun and excess. This special report sets out to recapture the spirit of those wild, lost years.
29. The Calvert Journal 90s RELOADED: Artemy Troitsky, No limits. What was the cost of a decade of sex, drugs and excess?
30. New York Times: Masha Gessen, Is It 1937 Yet?
31. RFE/RL: Once Known As Preeminent Soviet Scholar, Stephen Cohen Now Seen As Putin Apologist.
32. The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies: UPDATED: BOARD SOLICITS COMMENTS FOR MEETING RE COHEN-TUCKER FELLOWSHIP MATTER.
33. The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies: ASEEES MEMBER COMMENTS ON SIGN-ON LETTER OF FEB. 5, 2015.