RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Johnson’s Russia List contents with links :: 2014-#67 :: Wednesday, 26 March 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#67 :: 26 March 2014
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1. Time.com: Putin Is Reviving a Stalinist Fitness Program to Whip Russians Into Shape.
2. Russia Direct/Ogonyok: Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia has positioned itself at the epicenter of global politics. The annexation of Crimea has ushered in a new world order in which Russia gets to play a central, defining role in global politics for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
3. Christian Science Monitor: Fred Weir, Russia shrugs as G-8 shuts it out. Though the G-8 will meet sans Russia in Brussels instead of Sochi, experts say the Kremlin had already been moving away from the group.
4. The Irish Times: Daniel McLaughlin, Ukraine’s crisis opens rifts among its revolutionaries. The Maidan movement feels sidelined as Kiev fights emergencies on many fronts.
5. ITAR-TASS: Putin’s electoral rating getting closer to historical maximum again.
6. Interfax: Most Russians were impressed by Putin’s speech on joining Crimea – poll.
7. Russia Direct: Igor Rozin, Making sense of the world’s media coverage of Vladimir Putin. As journalists and other members of the media try to understand the situation in Crimea, they are increasingly attempting to get inside the head of Russian president Vladimir Putin. But are they succeeding?
8. Der Spiegel: ‘Dear to Our Hearts.’ The Crimean Crisis from the Kremlin’s Perspective.
9. Washington Post: Anne-Marie Slaughter, The war of words over Ukraine plays into Putin’s hands.
10. Moscow Times: What the Papers Say, March 26, 2014.
11. Moscow Times: Russian TV and Radio Highlights for March 17-23, 2014.
12. Moscow Times: Ukraine’s Police Crack Down on Nationalist Right Sector After Death Threats.
13. The Voice of Russia: Interior Ministry warns it now views all armed groups as illegal – deputy minister.
14. The Daily Mail (UK): The weapons that brought down a government and sparked a new Cold War: Deadly improvised weaponry used by Ukrainian protesters who ousted their president.
15. www.russiatoday.com: Muzychko killing: Ultra-nationalist mastermind demands cops’ arrest, Interior Minister’s dismissal.
16. www.russiatoday.com: Ukrainian court bans Russian TV broadcast.
17. RFE/RL: Ukrainian Troops In Crimea Face ‘Stay Or Go’ Dilemma.
18. Russia Direct: Zulfiqar Shah, Why Crimea will resonate beyond Europe. Crimea’s recent referendum on joining Russia has opened up a broader debate about sovereignty, political legitimacy and realpolitik in the modern world.
19. Moscow Times: Kosovo? Hong Kong? Abkhazia? Few Precedents for Russia’s Crimea Takeover.
20. Reuters: Economic cost of Crimea seizure mounts for Russia.
21. Moscow Times: Georgy Bovt, The West’s Misdirected Sanctions Against Russia.
22. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Sanctions against Russia will boost oil prices.
23. Reuters: Economic Exposure Leaves Ex-Communist States in a Quandary.
24. Russia Beyond the Headlines/Kommersant-Vlast: Asian markets offer a way out for Russia. Sanctions and the flight of Western investors following the Ukrainian crisis will prompt Russia to make serious efforts to improve relations with its eastern partners. In the mid-term, Asia could become the main distribution market for Russian goods as well as a source of capital and technology.
25. ITAR-TASS: West’s promises to help Ukraine are idle talk – experts.
26. PBS Newshour: Prime Minister Yatsenyuk: Concern over Russia is about global security, not just Ukraine.
27. www.mediaite.com: Poll: Americans Want Nothing to Do with Ukraine Crisis.
28. Interfax: Despite sanctions, Russia continuing to share intelligence on drug trafficking with U.S. – official.
29. RIA Novosti: Moscow, Washington Will Not Postpone FATCA Agreement – Russian Finance Minister.
30. The White House: Joint Statement by the United States and Ukraine.
31. New York Times: Obama Answers Critics, Dismissing Russia as a ‘Regional Power’
32. The White House: Press Conference with President Obama and Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands. (excerpts re Russia)
33. New York Times: U.S. Challenge Now Is to Stop Further Putin Moves. (DJ: We are going to see a flowering of post hoc ergo propter hoc stuff)
34. Wall Street Journal: Robert Gates, Putin’s Challenge to the West. Russia has thrown down a gauntlet that is not limited to Crimea or even Ukraine.
35. www.russiatoday.com: Pepe Escobar, Why the EU won’t annex Ukraine.
36. The Globalist: David Wise, Why Crimea Is Not the Product of U.S. Weakness. Do Republicans really need a refresher course in big-power politics?
37. The Guardian: Simon Jenkins, Crimea: all this virile cold war talk won’t force Vladimir Putin to slink back. As the most potent symbol of Russia’s lost glory, Crimea will never be returned to Ukraine. The west must accept this.
38. Council on Foreign Relations: Foreign Affairs Media Call With Michael McFaul.
39. http://readersupportednews.org; David Weissman, Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev.

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