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NEWSLINK: “NATO Moving Toward New Deterrence Model. Pact will set the stage for alliance to position troops on its borders for first time since the Cold War.” – Wall Street Journal
Jerusalem Post: Ukraine backtracks on Babi Yar plans amid accusations of Holocaust revisionism. Ukrainian gov’t is facing allegations that it’s engaging in historical revisionism following announcement of plans to revamp massacre site to generic symbol rather than emblem of Holocaust.
NEWSLINK: “Russian Companies Rush to Return to Post-Sanctions Iran” – New York Times
NEWSLINK: “Why Russian-Turkish Hostility Makes Sense. Tensions between the two countries have heightened again, although this is not surprising when viewed in historical context” – Global Futures/George Friedman
The Daily Vertical: Putin Smells Blood
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Brian Whitmore – February 9, 2016) As the shaky Minsk cease-fire agreement nears its first anniversary, Russia clearly smells blood in Ukraine. Pro-Moscow separatists have increased their attacks in Donbas in recent weeks. Kyiv officials are reporting 71 attacks a day in the vicinity of Donetsk, Horlivka, and Mariupol. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills […]
» Read moreMoscow’s Steamship Bolshoi Keeps Rolling
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Raymond Stults – February 9, 2016) [DJ: Bolshoi Babylon available on HBO in the US] In the summer of 2013, a British film production team was given unprecedented access to the Bolshoi Theater for purposes of making a documentary about the theater’s inner workings. Titled “Bolshoi Babylon,” the film made its debut on cable television […]
» Read morePersonal Debt in Russia Up 30% in 2015
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – February 9, 2016) The amount of personal debt in Russia rose by about 30 percent, last year according to deputy director of the National Bureau of Credit Histories Vladimir Shikin, the rusnovosti.ru news website reported Monday. “In 2015 we saw a rise in personal debt, both in rubles and as a percentage of the volume […]
» Read moreSmall businesses taking off in Russia, thanks to the crisis
Many Russians are responding to a reduction in income or the loss of a job by showing creativity in setting up a small business, with the fastest growing sectors today in catering and online. RBTH asked several entrepreneurs to tell the story of their success. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – ANNA KUCHMA, RBTH – February 8, 2016) While […]
» Read morePutin’s New Internet Czar Wants Apple and Google to Pay More Taxes
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Ilya Khrennikov and Stepan Kravchenko – February 8, 2016) When he’s not checking Gmail on his MacBook, Vladimir Putin’s new Internet czar can’t stop railing against American technology companies. Google, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., collectively worth more than Russia’s gross domestic product, have all entered German Klimenko’s crosshairs since he was named Putin’s first Internet […]
» Read moreRUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-28 :: Tuesday, 9 February 2016
[check back for updates, including article links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#28 Tuesday, 9 February 2016 A project sponsored through the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs The contents do not necessarily represent the views of IERES or the George Washington University. JRL homepage: russialist.org – JRL […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Carnegie Moscow/Ilya Klishin: “Web of Control: the Future of the Russian Internet”
NEWSLINK: “CGI Asks: Who Wins From Russia’s Privatization?” [Sergey Aleksashenko, Harley Balzer, Chris Miller, Daniel Russell] – Center on Global Interests
NEWSLINK: “Russian Officials Consider Bank Support Measures” – Transitions Online
NEWSLINK TASS: “Russians claim to know a lot about science though read little about it – survey”
Interfax: Russians support humanitarian aid to Donbas, relative majority sees no change there – poll
MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) – Russians say that the Donbas situation has been unaltered, and support humanitarian aid to people in that region, yet, there is no unanimity regarding further policy towards the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, the Russian Public Opinion Study Center said. According to the poll, a relative majority of Russians (45%) ‘do not see any […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK Russia Direct: “Upcoming meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill attracts attention of Russian media”
NEWSLINK: “Ukrainian Ex-Premier’s Visit to Washington Highlights Obstacles Facing Peace Pact” [Yulia Tymoshenko] – New York Times
Why Russia is steaming back into the Pacific
Russia’s power projection in the Pacific is in sync with its growing assertiveness globally, but it doesn’t necessarily threaten the U.S. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – RAKESH KRISHNAN SIMHA, SPECIAL TO RBTH – February 4, 2016) Russia is expanding its military presence in the Pacific in a manner not seen since the Cold War. From California to Guam […]
» Read moreWhen Baikal water will be more expensive than oil
The average price of a bottle of drinking water in Moscow has become more expensive than what a bottle of Brent crude would cost. RBTH asks experts if it would be worthwhile for Russia to start exporting water from Lake Baikal. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – GLEB FEDOROV, RBTH – February 5, 2016) [Charts here rbth.com/politics_and_society/society/2016/02/05/when-baikal-water-will-be-more-expensive-than-oil_564923] In January, […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK: “A Tribute To Robert Conquest” – Hoover Institution
NEWSLINK: “Russian ambassador sees U.S. ties at post-Cold War low” – Washington Times
NEWSLINK: “Chechens Back Russians on the Ground in Syria Conflict. Special forces from Russia’s mostly Muslim region are on the ground helping Kremlin warplanes.” – Wall Street Journal
How likely is an armed conflict between Russia and Turkey?
As relations between Russia and Turkey deteriorate, the question of a possible armed conflict between the two countries is being discussed more frequently. RBTH asked Russian and Turkish military experts to comment on how likely this outcome would be and asked them to lay out the possible scenarios. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – YEKATERINA CHULKOVSKAYA, RBTH – February […]
» Read moreUkraine Bond Rout Worsens on Bets Political Tussle to Block Aid
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Natasha Doff – February 8, 2016) Ukrainian bonds slid, sending the yield on the nation’s shortest-dated restructured debt above 11 percent for the first time, as a political shakeup raised the likelihood for further delays to an international bailout that’s keeping the country afloat. The $1.15 billion of bonds maturing in September 2019 dropped 2.22 cents […]
» Read moreRussian Academia’s Struggle to Attract Top Talent
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Vasily Kolotilov – February 8, 2016) About half an hour from the western outskirts of Moscow, the grays of Russian suburbia give way to a jagged horizon of shiny glass, concrete and abandoned building sites. A series of giant wooden pencils emerge, bearing the insignia “Skoltech.” The curious art installation signals arrival at the Skolkovo […]
» Read moreInvestment in oil and gas exploration may drop 10-15% in 2016
(Interfax – February 7, 2016) Investment in geological exploration for oil and gas in Russia may reduce 10-15% in 2016, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Sergei Donskoy said in a program aired by the NTV television channel. “Investment in hydrocarbon [exploration] will reduce somewhere between 10% and 15%, somewhere between these two digits,” he said. The minister said that […]
» Read moreA law beyond improvement; Defining “political activity” may seem like an academic exercise, but in Russia, it is an existential one.
Defining “political activity” may seem like an academic exercise, but in Russia, it is an existential one. (opendemocracy.net – Tanya Lokshina – February 8, 2016) Tanya Lokshina is Russia program director at Human Rights Watch. In May 2013, as Russia was craving positive international publicity before the Sochi Olympic Games, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK: “Obama wants to quadruple military spending in Europe to counter Russian aggression” – Washington Times
RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-27 :: Monday, 8 February 2016
[check back for updates, including article links; links also posted to facebook and twitter] Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#27 Monday 8 February 2016 A project sponsored through the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs The contents do not necessarily represent the views of IERES or the George Washington University. JRL homepage: russialist.org – JRL […]
» Read moreNEWSLINK: “Ukraine’s last chance to secure its freedom. Abromavicius resignation lays bare the absence of fundamental reforms” – Financial Times
NEWSLINK: “Abromavicius calls for replacing prosecutor general, forming technocratic government chaired by Jaresko” – Interfax-Ukraine
NEWSLINK Kyiv Post/Paul Niland: Poroshenko, Shokin — clean up your act or get out
NEWSLINK The Motley Fool: “Ukraine’s Biggest Plane Maker Shuts Down — and Boeing and Lockheed Breathe a Sigh of Relief. The Antonov Aviation Company is no more.”
NEWSLINK empr.media: “Interview. Aivaras Abromavicius: ‘Reshuffling old methods is not reform'”
NEWSLINK: “Defense Think Tank Pushes for New Talks Between Russia and NATO” – Wall Street Journal
NEWSLINK: “Yatseniuk proposes to reset Ukrainian administration” – Interfax-Ukraine
NEWSLINK: “UKRAINE AND THE LETHAL HAND OF HISTORY. Whatever the ambitions of Putin, his interference in Ukraine would have come to little without the country’s charged history of internal division.” – The Wilson Quarterly/Robert Thurston
NEWSLINK: “Ukrainian Corruption Could Endanger IMF Loan” – Transitions Online
Kyiv Post: Brian Bonner, Poroshenko becoming another Yanukovych.
NEWSLINK: “On which side of the reform fence does Poroshenko sit?” – Kyiv Post/Timothy Ash
NEWSLINK: “No reform, no aid” – Kyiv Post
NEWSLINK: “Ukraine Struggles to Recruit Soldiers for War in East” – Reuters
NEWSLINK: “How NATO’s Military Buildup Will Test Russia. More weapons are on their way to Moscow’s neighbors.” – The National Interest/Nikolas Gvosdev
NEWSLINK: “Government Approval Drops as Russians Start to Feel Economic Sting” – Center for Global Interests/Sergey Aleksashenko
NEWSLINK: “Life after sanctions: What kind of future awaits Russia and the EU? With calls for EU economic sanctions against Russia to be lifted growing, it is time to consider what kind of future awaits relations between Moscow and Europe – is the idea of close co-operation dead and buried, or can both sides bury the hatchet and move toward a more meaningful and trusting relationship?” – RBTH/Gazeta.ru/Fyodor Lukyanov
NEWSLINK: “Putin outlines conditions for privatization of state assets.” – RBTH/RBC Daily
Rose Gottemoeller: Washington, Moscow could settle INF problem in 2016
(Interfax – February 5, 2016) U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security State Rose Gottemoeller has given an interview to Interfax in which she speaks about U.S.-Russian issues over the INF Treaty and states that the United States is not going to return to the IV stage of its missile shield in Europe and not going […]
» Read moreReview: Arkady Ostrovsky’s ‘The Invention of Russia’
This new history tells a compelling, if normative, story of how Russia’s journalists and entrepreneurs threw off their former shackles, only to put them back on again. (opendemocracy.net – Maxim Edwards – February 3, 2016) Maxim Edwards is Commissioning Editor at oDR. He writes on nationalism, inter-ethnic and inter-religious relations, with a focus on post-Soviet countries. His articles have appeared […]
» Read moreUkrainian Bonds Plummet as Government Unity Efforts Stumble
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Natasha Doff, Daryna Krasnolutska – February 5, 2016) Ukrainian government bonds plunged as efforts faltered to shore up the ruling coalition after a key reformer quit and accused presidential party members of corruption. Notes issued in November after a $15 billion restructuring are poised for their worst week in the wake of comments from the parliament […]
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