Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2015-#52 :: Sunday 15 March 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List JRL 2015-#52 :: Sunday 15 March 2015
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1. Moscow Times: Russian State TV Shows Footage of Putin Working in Good Health.
2. The Unz Review: Anatoly Karlin, Schrodinger’s Putin.
3. www.rt.com: Putin: US masterminds behind Ukraine coup, helped train radicals.
4. Euromaidan Press: Russians make up 85% of “separatist” fighters – ATO.
5. Interfax: Foreigners account for less than a third of east Ukraine militia – top commander.
6. www.rt.com: Poroshenko: 11 EU states struck deal with Ukraine to deliver weapons, including lethal.
7. Moscow Times: Mission Impossible: Ukraine’s 3-Step Plan to Join NATO and Upset Russia.
8. www.opendemocracy.net: Fabian Burkhardt, Vying for influence in Ukraine. Oligarchs and Western experts are lining up to shape the future of Ukraine. But they’re not all on the same side.
9. Russia Direct: Ivan Tsvetkov, Making sense of Putin’s Crimea confession. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s controversial confession that he planned the incorporation of Crimea in advance of the referendum has political experts reassessing how to deal with the Russian state.
10. Russia Insider: Alexander Mercouris, The Liberal Attack on the Nemtsov Investigation.
11. Sergey Slobodyan: Re: #27 JRL 2015-#51, Russia’s Demography Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse. (Adomanis)
12. CNBC.com: Dan Steinbock, Russian economy is ready to grow.
13. Moscow Times: Ukraine Must Make Compromises and Radically Reform for IMF Funding to Continue.
14. www.rt.com: Russia to provide $13.75mn as part of first IMF loan for Ukraine – finance minister.
15. Kyiv Post editorial: Putin’s aims.
16. Fort Russ: Kiev junta cleaning the field? Seven high profile suicides in Ukraine in one month.
17. The Jewish Daily Forward: Russian Jewish Leader Slams Ukraine Moguls in Flap Over World War II Nazi Ally. Why Won’t Kiev Leaders Denounce Stepan Bandera?
18. The Irish Times: From elite English school to Ukraine’s frontline. Adam Osmayev, once arrested for alleged Putin murder plot, now leads pro-Kiev sabotage unit.
19. Counterpunch.org: Peter Lee, Better Deal With It. Fascist Formations in Ukraine.
20. The Washington Post: Alexander Motyl, What the Bolsheviks and Nazis can teach us about Russia today.
21. The Daily Signal (The Heritage Foundation): Why Ukraine Is a Mess and How It Got There. (Eugene Rumer)
22. World Socialist Web Site: Danger of war with Russia grows as US sends military equipment to Ukraine.
23. Paul Goble: A Post-Putin Russia Might Be Bad News for Everyone, Including Ukraine, in the Short Term.
Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia Map of Commonwealth of Independent States, European Portion

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