Thursday 13th April 2023
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Contents
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1 World society
United Nations
News links from around the world
JPR Book Notes
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2 The war in Ukraine
Fifty-nine weeks in, Thursday 13th April 2023
The military situation
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News items
Some of the items appearing below are from The Times … or, in the case of Sunday, from The Observer. “9, 1” indicates 9th March, 2023, page 1. Although not named, the work of the journalists is appreciated – indeed it is what I depend on. I buy the paper version but sometimes cite the online version (The Observer has open access but The Times does not.)
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1 World society
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United Nations
UN News: https://news.un.org/en/
UNCTAD: Lost decade looms for debt-ridden developing countries
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135552
UN Security Council: https://press.un.org/en/content/security-council
Arms control: https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15252.doc.htm
UN General Assembly:
https://press.un.org/en/content/general-assembly/meetings-coverage
Crimes against humanity: https://press.un.org/en/2023/gal3680.doc.htm
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News links from around the world
Brazil: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/;
USA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
China: https://www.globaltimes.cn/
Russia: https://tass.com/
UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
France: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/; https://www.lemonde.fr/ (in French)
India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Nigeria: https://guardian.ng/
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JPR Book Notes
https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/booknotes
Huang, Chin-Hao (2022) Power and Restraint in China's Rise.
https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/booknotes/3173
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3 The war in Ukraine
Fifty-nine weeks in, Thursday 13th April 2023
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The military situation
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Russia, Tass … government:
http://government.ru/en/news/48211/
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Ukraine, Kyiv Post … Kyiv Independent … president:
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/all
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BBC: War in Ukraine:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60525350.
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Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65245065
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https://www.understandingwar.org/ :
April 11
The Kremlin passed legislation to use tools of digital authoritarianism to digitize and improve the effectiveness of issuing summonses and crack down on Russian draft dodgers. The Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its third reading on April 11 to create a digital unified register of Russian citizens eligible for military service. Russian military recruitment offices will use the digital register to issue summonses to military service. The unified register harvests Russian citizens’ personal identification information—including medical, educational, and residence history, foreign citizenship status, and insurance and tax data—from multiple Russian legal entities, including Russia’s Federal Tax Service, investigative bodies, courts, medical institutions, the Russian Pension and Social Insurance Fund, the Central Election Commission, and federal and local authorities. Summoned individuals may not leave Russia and must appear at a military recruitment office within 20 days of being summoned. The law bans summoned individuals who are 20 days delinquent for reporting from driving vehicles, buying or selling real estate, and taking out loans. A senior Russian legislator stated that the law will correct some of the bureaucratic shortcomings that appeared during Russia’s partial mobilization in September 2022. Some Russian milbloggers who have long agitated for more aggressive force generation policies praised the law and stated that it exemplifies healthy interactions between Russian civil society and government. ISW previously forecasted that the Kremlin would marry Soviet-style societal control measures with big data and 21st-century information technology to intensify control over the Russian population after Russia used facial recognition, QR codes, and mobile device geo-tracking technology to enforce a draconian COVID-19 quarantine in 2020.
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Johnson’s Russia List:
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Russia Matters:
https://www.russiamatters.org/ ;
RM: https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-april-11-2023
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RUSI
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