Johnson’s Russia List with links :: 2014-#37 :: Friday, 21 February 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#37 :: 21 February 2014
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POLITICS

1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: The 10 most well-known Russian words.
2. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Ten more well-known Russian words.
3. Reuters: ‘Only in Russia’ moments brighten up Games.
4. ITAR-TASS: Sochi Olympics draw record number of TV-viewers worldwide.
5. Moscow News: Natalia Antonova, Petition against Adelina Sotnikova mean-spirited.
6. Moscow Times: Critics Fear Post-Sochi Crackdown.
7. Reuters: Anti-Putin protesters face verdict after ‘show trial’ in Russia.
8. The National Interest: Andranik Migranyan, Putin Is Russia’s Reagan.
9. Washington Post: Graeme Robertson and Sam Greene, Putin and the creative class: Who loves him, who hates him, and who couldn’t care less?
10. Paul Goble: Window on Eurasia: Putin Adopts a New Strategy for Governing in an Era of Scarcity. (Dmitry Traven)

ECONOMY

11. RIA Novosti: Russian Economy Seen Pulling Out of Stagnation By Mid-Year.
12. ITAR-TASS: Economic Development Ministry sees no preconditions for ruble collapse.
13. Reuters: Russia says better positioned than peers to deal with U.S. policy impact.
14. Prime Business: Russians saving more in rubles than dollars – finance minister.
15. Business New Europe: Artem Toropov, THE INSIDERS: Russia takes on offshorisation.
16. Reuters: G20 should do more to stabilize emerging markets: Russia.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

17. Reuters: Ukraine peace deal signed, opens way for early election.
18. Interfax: Right Sector does not believe Yanukovych, vows to continue fight against authorities
19. ITAR-TASS: Russia’s human rights commissioner Lukin leaving Kiev.
20. Reuters: Factbox – Ukraine’s road to bloody deadlock.
21. Interfax: Ukrainian politicians capable of settling crisis on their own – Russian diplomat.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Lavrov calls on West to condemn ‘extremists’ among protestors in Kiev.
23. Moscow Times: Russia Pledges to Fight for Crimea if Ukraine Splits.
24. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Is Ukraine president losing the Kremlin’s confidence?
25. Moskovsky Komsomolets: Mikhail Rostovsky, Do people have right to armed revolt?
26. Vlad Signorelli: Ukraine Edging Closer to Civil War?
27. The Vineyard of the Saker: The geopolitics of the Ukrainian conflict: back to basics.
28. The Real News Network: Ukraine’s Political Violence Spurred by Cultural Divide. Nicolai Petro: Violence persists between opposition and security forces, as opponents use culture to divide strongly nationalistic Ukrainian groups and factions identifying with Russia.
29. The National Interest: Nikolas K. Gvosdev, The Ukraine Story the Media is Missing.
30. Moscow Times: John Quigley, Let Ukrainians Determine Their Own Fate.
31. Wall Street Journal editorial: Why Putin Wants Ukraine. He sees a timid West and the chance to rebuild Greater Russia.
32. PBS Newshour: Has the moment passed for the West to sway Ukraine with sanctions? (with William Taylor and Matthew Rojansky)
33. Democracy Now: A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates, Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup. (with Stephen Cohen)
34. Dominique Arel: Crossing the Line in Ukraine.
35. The Economist editorial: Ukraine in flames. Putin’s inferno. The West must take a tough stand with the government of Ukraine-and with Russia’s leader.
36. The Economist: Ukraine’s crisis. Europe’s new battlefield. Bloody skirmishes between the police and protesters in the centre of Kiev could yet descend into something darker.
37. Buzzfeed.com: Ambassador McFaul: “We Never Set Out To Have A Good Relationship With Russia”
38. Carnegie Moscow Center: Petr Topychkanov, War With Multiple Enemies in Afghanistan.