RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: 2014-#50 :: Saturday, 8 March 2014

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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#50 :: 8 March 2014
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1. www.russiatoday.com: Russia’s 25,000-troop allowance & other facts you may not know about Crimea.
2. Reuters: Russia sticks to its demands in Ukraine crisis.
3. Reuters: Fresh confrontations raise tempers on ground in Crimea
4. RFE/RL: Interview: Annexation ‘Calls Into Question’ Fundamental Basis Of Modern States. (interview with Adam Roberts)
5. Washington Post editorial: The West must resist Mr. Putin’s gambits in Ukraine.
6. New York Times: Chrystia Freeland, Russia Has Already Lost the War.
7. Financial Times: Ukraine crisis: Pretext and plotting behind Crimea’s occupation.
8. Interfax: Crimean aspiration to join Russia its people’s initiative, not Kremlin’s – Peskov.
9. www.russiatoday.com: US warship in Black Sea as Ukraine’s Crimea readies for referendum.
10. New York Times: Russia’s Move Into Ukraine Said to Be Born in Shadows.
11. Da Russophile: Anatoly Karlin Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today).
12. www.russiatoday.com: Ron Paul on Liz Wahl’s claim: What RT reported was exactly what I said.
13. The Voice of Russia: Barring Russian reporters from Ukraine amounts to censorship – Russian Foreign Ministry.
14. AP: Russia, Ukraine feud over sniper carnage.
15. AFP: Russia calls for OSCE probe into Kiev sniper deaths.
16. Interfax: Ukraine could set up commission on “snipers problem” – sources.
17. Toronto Star: Mitch Potter, The fog of war, Russian-style. The fog of war has lifted enough to make better sense of the inferno that engulfed central Kyiv two weeks ago.
18. C-SPAN viewer: Dempsey admits U.S. has “NO EVIDENCE OR INFORMATION” military forces in Crimea are Russian troops!!
19. BBC News Trending: The pro-Russia ‘fakes’ in Ukraine?
20. Slate.com: Fred Kaplan, False Warnings. President Obama has bungled his negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
21. Reuters: In Ukraine, nationalists gain influence – and scrutiny.
22. International Business Times: Ukraine’s Neo-Fascist Right Sector Leader Dmytro Yarosh to Run for President.
23. www.thedailybeast.com: Jamie Dettmer, Ukraine’s Far Right Eyes Crimea, Vows To Defend The Motherland. Once an obscure and marginalized party, the Right Sector helped win the batlte for the Maidan-and Crimea may be next.
24. www.russiatoday.com: ‘Hang scum later’ – Ukrainian deputy governor on Crimea protests.
25. RIA Novosti: Russian FM: Ukraine Controlled by Ultranationalists.
26. Christian Science Monitor: Emily Holland and Rebecca R. Friedman, Russia and the West are both being played by Ukraine’s political elites. Ukrainian political elites have repeatedly tried to fob off their failures onto Moscow and the West, while extorting maximal support from both. The West must make any cash handouts conditional on meeting protesters’ demands for democratic reforms.
27. Xinhua: Commentary: The West’s fiasco in Ukraine.
28. Yahoo News: Oliver Knoz, Putin is not crazy. Frustrating, unpredictable. Not crazy.The Russian president may be calculating, sources say, even miscalculating. And worried
29. Bretton Woods Research: Vlad Signorelli, How to Avoid a Ukrainian Civil War?
30. Reuters: John Lloyd, The claims for Russian imperialism.
31. http://therealnews.com: A Struggle Amongst Oligarchs in Ukraine Pt.1. (interview with Aleksandr Buzgalin)
32. New York Times: Western Businesses in Russia, Watchful and Wary.
33. Reuters: Russia may suspend arms inspection deal with U.S. over Ukraine – reports.
34. New York Times: James Stewart, Why Russia Can’t Afford Another Cold War.
35. Forbes.com: Mark Adomanis, Ukraine’s Demographics Doom It To Economic Decline.
36. Newsweek.com: Jeff Stein, Exclusive: Ukraine’s President Feared Overthrow, but Russia Pushed for Crackdown, Intelligence Official Says.
37. Washington Post: Condoleezza Rice, Will America heed the wake-up call of Ukraine?
38. New York Review of Books: Timothy Snyder, Crimea: Putin vs. Reality.
39. International Institute for Strategic Studies: Samuel Charap and Keith Darden, Russia’s unclear motives in Ukraine.
40. Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder: Ukraine in Crisis.

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Map of Ukraine, Including Crimea, and Neighbors, Including Russia

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