The chancellor talks a good game in trying to appeal to German voters wary of left-wing sympathy for Putin, says John Vinocur in The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/merkels-campaign-takes-a-hard-line-on-russia-1482179218
http://inosmi.ru/politic/20161219/238418361.html
Donald Trump is forcing Republicans to take sides on a Russian autocrat who is no friend of the United States.
http://ru.krymr.com/a/28180843.html
By Cyrus Newlin
https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/la-vie-en-rose-why-kremlin-blacklisted-levada-center
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=58523934BA9A2
http://theins.ru/opinions/39407
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2016/12/13/70887-realii-podpolnoy-zhurnalistiki
http://newtimes.ru/stati/xroniki/%C2%ABon-fakticheski-brosaet-lichnyij-vyizov-putinu%C2%BB.html
https://republic.ru/posts/77394