RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#173 :: Wednesday 2 September 2015

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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2015-#173
Wednesday – 2 September 2015
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UKRAINE

1. Consortiumnews.com: Robert Parry, Ukraine Rightists Kill Police; Putin Blamed.
2. Israelnationalnews.com (Israel): Inna Rogatchi, Ukrainian Neo-Nazism: the European Parliament and Summer Camps. Shades of the 1930’s, no change. Last in a series.
3. Pando.com: Yasha Levine, Today on Twitter: The US Ambassador and the fascists.
4. AFP: Ukraine on edge after clashes as third policeman dies.
5. Irrussianality Paul Robinson, Fighting for nothing.
6. TASS: ‘Silence regime’ in Donbas should be preserved – Russian Foreign Ministry.
7. TASS: Moscow calls for Donbas to stay at negotiations table despite Kiev’s arrogant position.
8. http://newcoldwar.org: Halyna Mokrushyna, A universal soldier who cares for life: The story of a young woman who joined the Donetsk insurgency.
9. http://redstaroverdonbass.blogspot.com: In Kiev, a handful of brave people demanded an end to the war in Donbass.
10. Center on Global Interests: Igor Rotar, Ukraine Report: A Look Inside East And West: Part 1: Report from Kiev-controlled territory in Donbass.
11. Vedomosti: Ukraine’s figures on strength of Russian military presence in Donbass disputed.
12. Sputnik: Busting the Myth of Polish Sympathy for Ukraine.
13. TASS: Constitutional reform in Ukraine: Poroshenko trapped between West, right radicals.
14. Carnegie Moscow Center: Oleksandr Holubov, Ukraine’s New Party of Power.
15. Sputnik: West-Backed Ukrainian Government on Verge of Collapse – German Media.
16. Carnegie Moscow Center: Andrey Sambros, A Battle for Sevastopol.
17. Paul Goble: Handing Over Crimea and Donbas to Russia No Solution for Ukraine or the World.
18. Moscow Times: Russians More Concerned About Economy Than Ukraine – Poll.
19. www.opendemocracy.net: Oleg Kashin, The war in Donetsk – end of a post-Soviet taboo? The devastation of eastern Ukraine has woken Russians up to the reality of war for the first time since 1945.
20. The Economist: Riots in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine’s east has come back to Kiev. Soldiers riot over the terms of a peace deal, and the post-Maidan government may crack apart.
21. Sputnik: Alexander Mercouris, Kiev Riots Herald the Coming of Chaos to Ukraine.
22. www.politico.eu: Lev Golinkin, Ukraine’s far-right menace. A bloody divorce between the Ukrainian government and the country’s ultranationalist groups could be in the offing.
23. Sputnik: Ukrainian Radicals May Stage ‘Massacre’ Against Poroshenko Regime.
24. www.thedailybeast.com: James Miller, Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Terror. Yesterday’s bombing in Kiev by a far-right ultra-nationalist could keep Ukraine’s war going indefinitely.
25. The Vineyard of the Saker: SITREP: grenade attack in Kiev – a US PSYOP?
26. http://redstaroverdonbass.blogspot.com: The latest show of strength by the extreme right in Kiev.
27. Sputnik: $1.8 bln IMF Ukraine Bailout Funds Discovered in Kolomoyskyi’s Cyprus Kitty.
28. Russia Direct: Petr Kopka, What new social unrest in Kiev means for Washington and Moscow. The unrest in central Kiev should be a signal to Russia and the West that current attempts to manage the Ukrainian conflict are being met with skepticism and disapproval in Ukrainian society.
29. TASS: Russia’s Lavrov: Kiev clashes show that one should not flirt with extremists.
30. TASS: Russian lawmaker says Ukraine’s draft military doctrine is ‘challenge of aggression’
31. Segodnya (Kyiv): Ukraine’s draft military doctrine identifies Russia as adversary.
32. Kyiv Post: Poroshenko: ‘Draft constitutional amendments do not foresee special status’ for Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk.
33. Kyiv Post: Ukraine scrambles to ensure warm winter.